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 …
Underground water level average recorded at 550 feet The underground water levels have reached record lows, raising fears of a severe water crisis in the district. One of the major causes for the depletion in underground water, according to officials, is the reduction in annual rainfall and exploitation of water …
Dodoma — AS of December, last year, the government had completed 498 water projects in the country under the Big Results Now (BRN) programme, Water Deputy Minister, Mr Amos Makalla, said on Monday. As a result, about 4.9 million people were now accessing water services under the progarmme. Mr Makalla …
The Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation will launch a Nationwide Real Time Monitoring of use of toilets from January 2015. The Monitoring System will be unveiled to give a big push to Swachh Bharat Mission, which aims at attaining a 100% Open Defecation Free India by 2019. People across …
The study analysed that water pollution and water borne diseases. Water is one of the most important natural resources for all living organisms. Water pollution is a serious threat around the globe. Water pollution is generally referred to contamination of natural water resources. Man has polluted much of this limited …
The Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation has been providing financial and technical assistance to the State Governments in realizing the objectives of safe portal drinking water and open defecation free rural India. With the Launch of the `Swachh Bharat Mission' by the Hon'ble Prime Minister of India on 2nd …
COMPLETION of a water project worth 186m/- will assist residents of Namkongo village who have had to walk long distance to fetch water from wells in neighbouring villages. Speaking after unveiling the water project, the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) Secretary General, Mr Abdulrahman Kinana, said the project was part of …
The water in Mahikeng in the North West is safe to consume, says the provincial head of the Department of Water and Sanitation, Chadwick Lobakeng. "We have taken three samples in Mahikeng and upon analysis they were found to be of acceptable standard according to blue drop requirements," Lobakeng said. …
Physicochemical investigation of water from public water supply schemes was carried out with the objective of assessing its potabiliy for drinking purpose. It was observed that, lowest BOD value of 5.3 mg/L and highest BOD value of 8.1 mg/L where as the lowest COD of 75.3 mg/L and highest COD …
Planning for drinking water security in the Gram Panchayat, which includes measures for conservation, protection and augmentation of sources, quality surveillance and operations and maintenance, would help overcome drinking water scarcity and improve the health status of the people. By ensuring safe drinking water availability and supply to households and …
NASHIK: The state government has approved 11 water supply schemes worth Rs 12.88 crore. These Zilla Parishad schemes required special sanction as the per capita expenditure was beyond the prescribed administrative limit. "The water supply department of the Zilla Parishad here had sent 11 proposals to the state government for …
Political parties are looking to use the water issue as a trump card in the upcoming elections after the monsoon this year has filled up the dams around the city to about 95%. On Sunday , deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar demanded that rural Pune get its share of water. …
Almost 22,000 people in two arid districts of Rajasthan in India can now swipe a card and collect 20 litres of clean, drinking water for Rs 5 (one-hundredth of a pound). Water ATMs or kiosks, or reverse osmosis plants, have been installed in some of the villages of the districts …
Puducherry lt governor Lt General A K Singh on Monday commissioned a drinking water supply project at Manavely village near here. This will ensure drinking water supply for more than 15,000 families spread over some 20 hamlets in the vicinity of Manavely. The project was implemented at a cost of …
Thousands of villages in the state still lack proper drinking water facility while one-third of them are only partially covered with adequate and safe drinking water. Responding to a question in the Rajya Sabha, minister of state for drinking water and sanitation, Upendra Kushwaha, admitted that Rajasthan has a lot …
The International Red Cross (IRC) has released a book, titled “Priceless! Uncovering the Real Costs of Water and Sanitation,” as part of the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Cost (WASHCost) initiative. The book presents lessons learned from the WASHCost project and reflects on experiences in the four project countries: Burkina Faso; …
After the Kanyashree project’s international acclaim, it was the turn of the state government’s rural development and rural water supply system that drew the World Bank and UNICEF’s attention. Inviting the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government to attend a seven-day seminar on rural development and rural water supply in Stockholm …
A total of 26 district-level Government laboratories have been established in Chhattisgarh for testing the purity of drinking water.During the last three years, 56,388 samples of ground water sources have been examined in these laboratories, officials said. In the areas, where iron-ore, fluoride or impurities were found in the samples, …
