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 …
A study of the socio-economic situations of three villages in north-eastern Andhra Pradesh shows that while times and values have vastly changed, not much has been transformed in terms of privileges and opportunities. Those belonging to landowning families have managed to get a good education and secure good jobs or …
New Delhi, Jan. 4: Jharkhand had asked for a longer rope to meet the plan of providing drinking water to every village under the National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP). But Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh, who also holds the drinking water and sanitation portfolio, in a missive to …
Many factors associated with modern society have combined to produce a burgeoning in water demand. This demand can be realized only through efficient management of water sources and supply systems. To achieve sustainable water supply the beneficiary communities should be made to maintain the facilities created in the rural areas. …
Keeping in focus the rural area and its distribution system, a Regional Rural Water Supply Scheme (RRWSS) for 30 villages in Nashik District consisting of a distribution system from MBR (Master Balancing Reservoir) to GSR (Ground Service Reservoirs) of 30 villages is selected as a reference scheme for this study.
Arghyam, a non-profit foundation focusing on domestic water and sanitation, has published a document highlighting a water quality management (WQM) framework for rural areas. The framework lays out a phased and process-driven approach to WQM in rural areas and is based on work done by 12 prominent non-governmental organisations (NGOs) …
People in developing countries do not have access to safe drinking water and in Pakistan; the vast majority of the country’s 180 million inhabitants do not have access to drinkable water. According to a report of Pakistan Council for Research in Water Resources (PCRWR), the best rural water supply amongst …
As many as 176 villages will be benefited from 30 surface water schemes. The zilla panchayat engineering division of Dakshina Kannada has proposed to draw more water from the River Nethravathi. It is for supplying drinking water to 176 villages in Dakshina Kannada using surface water from other rivers such …
JAMMU: Committee on Estimates (EC) of Legislative Assembly today asked the officers and engineers of Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department to gear up the field functionaries and identify the those habitations which have not been provided drinking water facilities so far. The Committee stressed upon them to prepare Detailed Project …
PURULIA, 4 DEC: Around 1,500 students of several primary and upper primary schools in Ayodhya hills have been studying in classrooms that do not have either electricity or proper drinking water facilities for many years now due to lack of funds. There are around 22 primary and upper primary schools …
This paper presents primary data collected from two districts of Surat and Kutch in Gujarat and examines how and to what extent the decentralised system of governance has contributed to delivery of health services in rural areas of Gujarat. It finds several lacunae and shortcomings in the delivery by panchayati …
The WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation (JMP) monitors progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target to halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. The JMP publishes a report every two years, which presents an update …
Addressing the challenges of water management and governance in rural and urban areas, this new IDFC report deals with water politics, leakage of water in urban areas as well as the lack of water recycling mechanisms. Addressing the challenges of water management and governance, the India Infrastructure Report 2011 brings …
This paper attempts to bring out the influence of governance systems on the water and sanitation service levels in rural Andhra Pradesh, India. As part of WASHCost (India) Project survey was conducted in 107 villages using the participatory methodologies to elicit the information and perceptions of the different community groups …
This study, commissioned by Triple-S, seeks to shed light on the progress in achieving scaled-up sustainable rural service delivery. It examines a number of service delivery models currently being implemented in India, by identifying their strengths, challenges and limitations. The study also identifies key conclusions for achieving more sustainable service …
Acting on a petition filed in public interest blaming Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal of indulging in favouritism in setting up water purifiers mostly in areas falling under his own constituency, the Punjab and Haryana High Court today issued a notice to the state of Punjab. No scientific basis …
DIBRUGARH: With an aim to implement water security and safety plan, the Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department, Dibrugarh has entrusted the NESYPM, an Non–Government Organization (NGO) with the task to survey the status of drinking water in the rural areas of Lahoal and Barbaruah block in Dibrugarh District. An awareness …
Economic criteria shape investments in drinking-water supply systems and services. Yet, often they may be defined in a narrow sense and economic returns may be evaluated in strictly financial terms. The result is an emphasis on large, urban infrastructural works. Yet, a large part of the world's population in rural …
Ranchi, Oct. 27: The Planning Commission has set a December deadline for the Jharkhand government to complete a majority of the projects launched under the Centre’s Integrated Action Plan (IAP) in the 14 Naxalite-hit districts of the state. Planning Commission senior consultant Ranjan Chatterjee, who arrived in Ranchi this morning, …
Jairam Ramesh on Monday broke off from his CAG-bashing ministerial colleagues and asked the agency to audit the over . 1,00,000-crore annual allocation by his department to rural development schemes. In a letter to the CAG, Jairam Ramesh has sought the appointment of special accountant generals to oversee audit of …
