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 …
Camels grazing in the mangrove forest, small fishing boats anchored on shore and naked children playing with dead fish. This scene can be a great opening to a documentary however reality paints a different picture of it. No one knows the decades of pain the residents of Kaka Pir Goth, …
To ensure access to clean drinking water to the residents of Palosai village of Orakzai Agency a water storage tank has been established that will cater to the needs of the entire community of the village. Palosai village had the problem of scarcity of clean drinking water and getting clean …
PILLALAMARRI SRINIVAS DC | MALINI (ADILABAD) March 19: "Why should we give our votes to any political leader in the coming elections when all of them have failed to provide us drinking water all these years?" asks Ms Surpam Sundaribai of Malini gram panchayat in Sirpur (T) Assembly constituency. Ms …
By Rining L Mawphlang SHILLONG: Lyngkyrdem village, about 50 km from the State capital, is grappling with a crisis that is worse than the one facing Sohra, the wettest place on earth. Inhabitants of Lyngkyrdem toil day and night for a bucket of potable water. Let alone pipe or tap …
Official says the problem has been solved Protest: Villagers of Geejana Kuppam under the Sudachandiram panchayat lay seige to the Block Development Office in Thali on Thursday demanding drinking water.
Patna: Fed up with official apathy, people of a Bihar village, suffering for decades due to high fluoride content in drinking water, have sent politicians the simple message: no safe drinking water, no votes. Villagers in Khaira in Jamui constituency have decided to boycott the April 16 polls and have …
NAGAPATTINAM: A large number of men and women from several villages blocked road on Thulajapuram road near Vedaranyam on Wednesday demanding the district administration to take immediate steps to provide protected drinking water supply. The protestors complained that many villages were not getting water for several months through the Anaikarai …
The objective of this programme is monitoring and surveillance of all drinking water sources in the country by the community, decentralization of water quality monitoring and surveillance of all rural drinking water sources in the country, institutionalization of community participation and involvement of PRIs for water quality monitoring and surveillance, …
KENDRAPARA: Scarcity of water with the onset of summer is an election issue in most of the seaside villages under Mahakalapada and Rajnagar blocks in the district as several political leaders have failed to keep their promises to provide potable water to them. Residents fetch drinking water early in the …
Chandigarh: An Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham) study released today cited significant shift to cotton crop coupled with unavailability of water, erratic power supply, unpaid debt and unavailability of micro-credit from banks as the main reasons for farmers
PARADIP: More than 25 persons of coastal villages of Balikuda block have been affected by diarrhoea following consumption of contaminated water. Sources said 20 to 25 coastal villages under Balikuda and Ersama blocks are reeling under acute water crisis as a result of which, people are forced to consume contaminated …
Not every village is as fortunate as Saledhana, the village that once saw its women walk distances to fetch water for everyday life, now has 24-hour supply!
ISLAMABAD: Capital Development Authority (CDA) is making utmost efforts to launch Ghazi Barotha Water Supply Project (GBWSP), as the city is currently facing shortage of 29 million gallons water per day (MGD), said CDA Chairman Tariq Mehmood Khan on Thursday. Khan was addressing launching ceremony of water tanker service for …
Change is not something that happens automatically. Our collective effort is what acts as a catalyst in the process of change, said Sharda Devi, President of Samagra Jal Vikas Samiti of Pipra. Earlier, women of this village had to walk 2 to 3 kilometers to collect water, spending most of …
For most of the year, the residents of Bundelkhand experience acute scarcity of water for agricultural and domestic use. Water sources are varied and often seasonal, ranging from ponds, tanks, lakes and streams to open wells, bore wells and irrigation canals radiating out from large-scale dams. Most agriculture is of …
"Right to Water and Sanitation", is a briefing paper (draft)of WaterAid India, based on secondary research. It reviews the current status of drinking water and sanitation in India and concludes that viewing the issue of water and sanitation as a fundamental human right, is necessary to ensure the provision of …
DINDIGUL: Relentless effort, adaptable approach, total participation and sharing project cost by the community will help them solve their decade-old drinking water crisis as the Central government has sanctioned Rs.1.01 crore this year to augment drinking facilities and recharge water structures in 18 habitations at 12 panchayats this year under …
