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 revised National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP) Guidelines 2009-2012 issued by Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission, Department of Drinking Water Supply has shifted the focus from source development and installation of water supply system for providing drinking water supply to rural household to focus on development of village …
In the Rural Water Supply (RWS) sector sustainability of drinking water sources and systems are a major issue. As a consequence, ensuring availability of drinking water both in terms of adequacy and quality, on a sustainable basis, is the major challenge. Water quality is impacted due to ground water table …
Slippage is one of the main bottlenecks of achieving full coverage of water and sanitation services in India. Slippage is the term often used to reflect unsustainable service delivery of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services, especially in rural areas. Off late slippage is attracting attention at the policy level …
Khikiya: The Khirkiya Nagar Panchayat is supplying nearly 9 lakh litres of water every day in the city with a population of nearly 22 thousand people. The water supplied everyday amounts to 40 litre per person on an average, while the water necessity of a person during the summer season …
Pune Last year this time, around three villages and 10 wadis in Pune district was receiving water via tankers. This figure was in unison with the groundwater level in the district that later dropped to an average of 6.17 metres in May last year. This year has been an exception. …
Ahmedabad: Creating awareness about water quality in various villages in and around Gujarat, Ahmedabad-based Pacific Pipe Systems Pvt Ltd (PPSPL) celebrated World Water Day 2010 by reaching out to 22 villages in state while campaigning for safe water. Company officials met villagers, organised street plays and a signature drive to …
Pune With summer kicking in, district administration repairs pipelines, gets borewells ready and banks on tankers With the mercury levels touching 39 degrees the district administration is already putting together a scheme for the rural areas which are likely to face severe water shortage in the coming months. The district …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The State Government is strongly pursuing the implementation of water safety project, under which Government projects are undertaken in a transparent and effective manner, Water Resources Minister N K Premachandran has stated. In his World Water Day message, the Minister said that water safety project is a novel initiative …
Business ideas for the bottom of the pyramid come in unlikely situations. Four years after running a purified, bottled water business, Kammili Satyanarayana Raju, an alum of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, decided it was logical to make machinery that purifies water. After all, it was just a series …
KENDRAPARA: Though summer is yet to completely set in, Kendrapara district has begun feeling the pangs of water scarcity. The district has 1,579 villages of which, 800 are facing water problem. In the town limits, even though water comes through municipal taps, it is dirty and cannot be used for …
Anantapur: Anantapur district is likely to face a severe drinking water problem as groundwater levels have depleted to 14 meters depth due to summer. Rural Water Supply (RWS) officials identified worst affected habitations and 228 pending drinking water schemes be completed in the summer. They have requested the government to …
ISLAMABAD: Residents of Bhara Kahu and adjoining areas held a protest demonstration on Monday against the persistent water shortage in rural areas of the capital. Hundreds of people carrying placards and chanting slogans against the administration gathered at the main Athal chowk and blocked the road due to which traffic …
While about 1.80 lack rural habitations across the country have been reported with excess contamination of available drinking water, as many as 111 districts in different States and Union Territories either do not have water quality testing laboratory or upgraded the existing ones to track various kinds of contaminants. According …
Vijayawada, March 14: The Zilla Parishad chairman, Mr K. Nageswara Rao, on Sunday asked the Rural Water Supply (RWS) officials to conduct mandal-level meetings immediately and submit a report to the district administration to address the drinking water problem that will arise in the ensuing summer. He chaired the Zilla …
Jaipur: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot today presented a surplus Budget of Rs 48 crore, focusing on poor, farmers, potable water, power and health sectors. However, he has given a jolt to urban population by increasing power tariff and tax on four-wheelers. Presenting his second Budget, Gehlot said an allocation …
This report, which would jointly prepared by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, the Asian Development Bank and the UN Development Programme, illustrates the negative impacts of the global economic crisis on progress towards the Millennium Development Goals in the Asia-Pacific region and identifies opportunities …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has decided to spend Rs 271 crore on rural water supply scheme to avert crisis during summer which will be dry and harsh, according to forecast. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik reviewed the situation at a high-level meeting here where it was decided that 21 rural drinking …
Kinnow growers in Abohar have been forced to switch to cultivating vegetables; houses in villages have developed cracks The problem of rising levels of groundwater in Abohar has become a cause of concern. Thousands of residents as well as area under cultivation in 150 villages have been affected. Many have …
Ludhiana: Manpreet Singh Ayali, chairman of Zila Parishad, today said the Punjab Government had launched the Water Supply Project for providing safe and quality drinking water to villages of the state with the financial assistance of Rs1,280 crore from the World Bank and under the National Rural Drinking Water Supply …
A high-level Nigerian delegation of parliamentarians met Union Rural Development Minister CP Joshi and evinced interest in the development initiatives of the Government of India for the rural population. The 20-member Nigerian team was led by Chairman of House Committee on Millennium Development Goals of that country Adewale Aribisala. In …
