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 …
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, …
The African Development Bank and Malawi signed three agreements for $104 million in the form of loans and grants, the Daily Times reported. The money will be used for sustainable rural water and sanitation infrastructure, a feasibility study for the Lower Shire water development, and the fourth phase of the …
This report explores a hybrid mechanism of microfinance, based on community networks and third party collateral for meso-scale loans, to provide a different financing model for small community water and sanitation supplies. Embedding these community water entities within local government structures provides a mechanism for sustainability and for eventual government …
Investigation found no unit had been set up to monitor water quality in Odisha The Comptroller and Auditor General of India said 1.80 lakh people were forced to consume unsafe water supplied under 73 rural schemes due to the absence of a facility to test its quality in Odisha. According …
Chief Minister seeks technical support on various projects With the World Bank coming forth to fund projects for the promotion of religious, heritage, health and ethnic tourism, State Government was on Tuesday asked to work out various modalities so that Punjab was placed as a global destination on the international …
CHITRAL: The Sarhad Rural Support Programme (SRSP) has completed a water supply scheme at a cost of Rs2.3 million, benefiting at least 400 households of Orghoch village. Speaking at the inauguration ceremony, villagers, including Mohammad Wali Shah, Qazi Naeem, Mohammad Ilyas and others praised the SRSP for completing the project. …
Targets fixed for Twenty Point Programme (TPP) for 2014-15 under National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP). Letter to Secretary/Principal Secretary in charge of Rural Water Supply/PHED of all states and UTs governments.
Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India on local bodies (Karnataka). The report has been laid on the tabel of the State Legislature Assemly on 14-07-2014.
THE Minister of Water Resources, Mrs. Sarah Ochepe, has appealed to the Chairmen of all Local Government Councils across the country to give more priority to provision of water and sanitation to the rural populace. The minister who made the appeal when she received the Chairman of Bassa Local Government …
The residents of various villages in the Changar area of Anandpur Sahib block are likely to get better drinking water supply as the district administration has prepared a plan to spend over Rs 9 crore on the augmentation of drinking water system in area. It is proposed to make arrangements …
Around 15 thousand indigenous people living in 80 punjee (betel plantation) villages under seven upazilas of the district are suffering from crisis of safe drinking water. In absence of tube-well in the areas, these people, mostly betel farmers, have to use salty water drawn from over 170 wells they dug …
