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 Nirmal Gram Puraskar was launched by Government of India in the year 2002 with the objective to promote rural sanitation, especially to eliminate the practice of open defecation and to reward PRIs ( Panchayat Raj Institution)Panchayats, Panchayat Samitis, Zilla Panchayat), individuals and institutions for their sustained efforts towards achieving …
A small village called Thangammalpuram, in Vilathikulam Block, Tutucorin District received a national award recently from the President of India, Pratibha Patil, for attaining full sanitation coverage in households, schools, Angawadis, etc., and for outstanding contribution in the promotion of rural sanitation for the year 2008. The award was received …
JAIPUR: The Rajasthan Government has declared 7,372 villages in 12 districts of the State as scarcity-hit and decided to launch relief works and make arrangements for supply of drinking water and fodder in these villages. According to an official release here on Thursday, the relief works will continue till March …
Fighting Budda Nullah curse Clean water was made available to nearly 1,500 residents of this village yesterday after years of drinking polluted underground water courtesy the Budda Nullah. Help came from an NRI, who got reverse osmosis water purifying system installed in the village yesterday. Joginder Singh, NRI businessman in …
The 'Swajala dhara' project, which was taken up to provide water to the region from Ayyanakere, has come to a stand still leaving the residents worried about the future. The project was to pump the water from Ayyanakere to the tank constructed on top of the hill and supplying the …
Portable drinking water will be provided from tanks to two regions in the Srinivaspur Assembly constituency under the Rajiv Gandhi Drinking Water scheme, at an estimated cost of Rs 60 crore, said legislator G K Venkatashivareddy. He was speaking at the Republic Day celebrations, on Monday, at the Government Women
By Our Staff Reporter Bhopal, Jan 22: The State Government has made an alllotment of Rs 15.50 lakh for transportation of drinking water in rural areas of Indore, Betul and Hoshangabad districts. The allotment fund would be used for those areas where every source of potable water has dried up. …
CHANDIGARH: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Monday said his government had augmented the supply of drinking water in 27 towns and 2,796 villages and increased the budget for supply of drinking water and sanitation to Rs.770 crore from Rs.218 crore in 2004-05. Redressing public grievances in his home …
Nain Khurd (Patiala), This village definitely shows the way to thousands of other Punjab villages which are still wanting on account of cleanliness and proper sanitation as they look towards the authorities for improvement of their lot. Things are starkly different at this tiny village having a populatin slightly crossing …
A new water supply scheme is to be set up by the Army's Naoshera Brigade in Chowki Handan Naoshera village of Jammu and Kashmir to provide drinking water to 5,000 villages. At present, women and children of the village fetch water on their head from a distance of about 3 …
Visakhapatnam, Jan. 4: People of 32 panchayats which were merged with the Greater Visakha Municipal Corporation (G-VMC) two years ago have a special reason to celebrate this year
A survey of households in six villages in Birbhum district of West Bengal provides evidence that decentralisation in delivery of water supply leads to better quality of services. The participation of the local government in distribution of water supply, and household contribution to operation and maintenance appear to have a …
This paper attempts to develop a most competent roughing filter combination for low-cost surface water treatment in rural areas by using different parameters of roughing filter such as length of filter, flow condition, filter media, head loss, and velocity.
The Accelerated rural water supply programme (ARWSP) has been renamed as the National rural water supply programme (NRWSP). This document details revised guidelines and the policy framework for implementation of the NRWSP. To provide every rural person with adequate water for drinking, cooking and other domestic basic needs on a …
Clay filters promise clean drinking water in villages - Terafil technology to benefit Chakdoha & Chapri in Ghatshila, pilot project to encourage self-employment Terafil technology will not only ensure clean drinking water in villages but also turn the rural people into entrepreneurs. Chakdoha and Chapri, two villages of Ghatshila in …
Manjunath Sulloli lauds the spirit of community participation among people of Bijapur district and points out that it is this spirit that has helped the district become home to a model World Bank-funded multi-village drinking water project. We are in the middle of the United Nations
The Accelerated Rural Water Supply Programme (ARWSP) was introduced in 1972?73 by the Government of India to assist the States and Union Territories (UTs) to accelerate the pace of coverage of drinking water supply. The entire programe was given a Mission approach with the launch of the Technology Mission on …
