The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
The party unveiled a water plan yesterday to be presented to the city's leaders. It proposed a three-pronged approach: "Using what we've got, saving what we've got and appreciating what we've got." This would involve rainwater harvesting in informal settlements, rethinking stormwater drainage systems, encouraging people to save water and …
The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has approved two projects costing Rs 28.17 crore for providing raw water by pumping for 17 water works schemes in Haryana. While stating this here today, Minister of State for Public Health Engineering Banwari Lal said over Rs 21.17 crore had …
CAPE TOWN - The City of Cape Town’s water crisis warning on electronic freeway signboards has gone live, indicating how much water the metro has left at current consumption rates. This is an effort to strengthen the warning that saving water is the best contingency measure before and during a …
DURBAN – eThekwini metro municipality residents are being punished because of poor water management, the Democratic Alliance in KwaZulu-Natal said on Sunday. “It cannot be that a city that receives 1,009mm in rain annually cannot find a solution to its water shortages,” DA provincial leader Zwakele Mncwango told journalists at …
Cape Town – The City of Cape Town is set to release the identities of all customers found guilty of contravention of Level 3B water restrictions on Monday. This after the City said water consumption needed to decrease by more than 100 million litres per day, from a current 825 …
NYIMBA Member of Parliament(MP) Olipa Mwansa has commended Eastern Water and Sewerage Company(EWSC) and Devolution Trust Frund (DTF) for remaining committed to improve the lives of the people through the provision of quality water. Ms Mwansa said when she launched a K2.5 million water supply project financed by the DTF …
1.1 million Liberians and 2.4 million Sierra Leoneans endure scarcity of safe drinking water. WaterAid, a non-profit organization, has launched a US$7 million project to provide water to targeted communities in Liberia and Sierra Leone. The 2015 WaterAid report said there was significant progress globally in meeting the Millennium Development …
Government authorities announced on Thursday in Maputo that between 1990 and 2015, more than 13 million Mozambicans accessed clean drinking water and 7 million accessed proper sanitation. Despite the number indicating more than half of the Mozambican population estimated at 25 million, government authorities said that the sector for water …
MADIBENG - Some North West residents are blaming their water woes on a lack of political will by the Madibeng Municipality in Brits. Residents of Mmakau have been without clean, running water for several months. They claim their suffering has become big business for service providers. Community leaders say they've …
Safe Water Network, a not-for-profit international organisation, has commissioned a 100,000 dollar water station at Fodzoku in the North Tongu District of the Volta Region. The “H2OME Water Station” will serve 13 small towns and marks the end of 30 years without potable water in the Volta River Authority (VRA) …
Due to stricter water restriction measures in Cape Town, the operating times of public swimming pools have been changed "for the remainder of the summer season", the City of Cape Town said on Wednesday. With the exception of Sea Point, the Mnandi Resort pool, and four other indoor facilities in …
Monrovia – Consumers of City Life mineral water have expressed concerns over the production and sale of the water in the proximity of a filling station. Omaru Filling Station in Duala, Bushrod Island does not only serve as a place where petroleum products are sold, it also serves as production …
BENGALURU: The Yettinahole project overcame another legal hurdle on Tuesday, when a petition filed before the National Green Tribunal (NGT) questioning the Centre's environmental clearance for the project was withdrawn. Water resources minister M B Patil said withdrawal of the petition was a shot in the arm for the project …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Arsenic contamination in drinking water, 06/02/2017. As regards rural areas of the country, as reported by the States into the Integrated Management Information System (IMIS) of the Ministry as on 02 Feb, 2017, the areas of 66 districts of 8 states are in the …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Chemical Contamination in Drinking Water, 06/02/2017. As reported by the States into the Integrated Management Information System (IMIS) of the Ministry as on 3 Feb 2017, the names of 100 districts belong to 13 States where high incidence of drinking water contamination found is …
From Cape Town to Limpopo, The Department of Water and Sanitation is rolling out water restrictions, asking residents to use water moderately as dam water levels remain substantially low. In response to these water restrictions 350Africa is calling on the government to declare the water scarcity crisis as a state …
Villagers at Mhlotsheni village near Mount Frere in the Eastern Cape are drinking and washing in muddy water as their only stream dries up. The small Rhontsana stream, which feeds the Umzimvubu River and serves as a main source of water for more than 300 households, has been drying up …
Afforestationwork has helped revive the forests at Punshilok, Manipur We follow a serpentine mud and rock-strewn path, tunnelled by lush trees that create a brilliant monochrome in green. It is interspersed sporadically with plants throwing up yellow-orange blossoms with flitting butterflies perching on them. As we trek up, the quiet …
Osmansagar and Himayatsagar, may be excluded from GO 111, that bars construction activity within 10-km radius of the lakes. Hyderabad: More than half of the 84 villages that fall under the catchment area of the city's two prime sources of drinking water, Osmansagar and Himayatsagar, may be excluded from GO …
Undernutrition is a multi-sectoral problem with multi-sectoral solutions. By applying integrated approaches, the impact, coherence and efficiency of the action can be improved. This guidebook demonstrates the importance of both supplementing nutrition programmes with WASH activities and adapting WASH interventions to include nutritional considerations i.e. making them more nutrition-sensitive and …
