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 …
This synthesis report covers the key findings from the ACCCRN project work in India from 2008 through 2013. This report summarizes research done as a part of ACCCRN in the areas of urbanisation and risk, future scenarios for urban areas in India, and climate change challenges. It also summarizes case …
Environment and forests minister Hasan Mahmud slammed Transparency International, Bangladesh for its recent investigation report on the government’s climate change trust fund utilization. Read more in this October 2013 edition of the Monthly Bangladesh State of the Environment Report published by the South Asia Environment Portal. Read and Share. ENVIRONMENT …
The National Water Policy 2002 as well as the Odisha State Water Policy 2007 defines water as a prime natural resource, a basic human need and a previous national asset. Accordingly, both the National Water Policy and the Odisha State water policy accord highest priority to water supply for human …
PMC Gets Bidders After It Tweaks Tender, Makes It Commercially Viable The city’s much talked about 24x7 water supply and water meter scheme may see the light of the day finally, with its pilot project making some progress. After three unsuccessful attempts, the civic body has received response from five …
The large state-managed and institutionalised provision of water in Delhi and its nearby environs is not free of social and political biases. In the nearby Trans Hindon area, different sections of the population are increasingly witnessing huge disparities in terms of formal and even informal modes of water access. Both …
The Union government has approved a Rs. 42-crore drinking water supply project to Bantwal Town Municipality under the Urban Infrastructure Development Scheme for Small and Medium Towns, according to a top official. The project will increase water supply to the town threefold: from the present 4.5 million litres per day …
Raising hackles amidst the political turbulence over the division of state, chief minster N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Saturday doled out a Rs 5,800 crore-worth water project to his home district Chittoor. The CM, who was in Tirumala for the inauguration of Brahmotsavams, sanctioned the water project covering the entire …
There is a growing, although still far from comprehensive, literature within China on the impacts of climate change in urban areas; also an evolving policy framework at national level to address these concerns and an increased interest in climate change adaptation from many local governments. This paper summarizes the urban …
Construction of a drinking water project has begun at Rampur in the eastern belt of Palpa district. The Small Urban Drinking Water and Sanitation project is being constructed at a cost of Rs. 243.4 million at Rampur VDC which is fast developing into a built-up area and is facing acute …
Members of Guwahati Sanmilita Nagarik Adhikar Suraksha (GSNAS) Mancha on Saturday sat on a hunger strike in Guwahati, protesting against the government’s proposed move towards the privatization and commercialization of the urban water supply in the city and against the proposed hike in urban property tax. Mancha president Dr Hiren …
The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board’s scheme to regularise illegal water connections has failed miserably with not a single application being submitted. Though thousands called up the Board office and many others came in person to enquire about the regularisation offer, which concluded a couple of days ago, …
Plans to revise domestic and commercial water tax The Dindigul Municipality will spend Rs.70 crore to augment drinking water supply to Dindigul town. To meet its expenses, it will revise domestic and commercial water tax and deposit amount for new water connection. Elaborating on the new project at the Municipal …
As the existing water supply schemes apparently proved insufficient to meet the requirement of Katra during the pilgrim rush, the state government has deputed a team of technical experts to prepare a comprehensive “Vision Document” to meet the drinking water needs of the town. The team has been given a …
Agency Installs Meters To Monitor Water Supply From Aluva Plant The permanent water flow meters installed at Aluva water treatment plant to monitor the quantity of water supplied to the city is likely to become operational next week. According to Kerala water authority (KWA), water supply can be monitored and …
Dataquest-CyberMedia While the forecasted demand of water in Goa by 2025 is 593 MLD (million litres per day), the total capacity of the water treatment plants in Goa will become 599 MLD by 2015, said A M Wachasundar, project director of the JICA (Japan international co-operation agency) project in Goa. …
Although it seemed a distant possibility a few months ago, the city municipal corporation is gearing up to implement the 24X7 water supply project in all 60 wards within old corporation limits in the city. The civic body will conduct an initial trial run in a chosen area, by supplying …
Relaxing regulations, the government has accorded administrative sanction for Rs 22.50 crore to the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB;) for the Krishna Drinking Water Supply Project phase-III. On Monday, the municipal administration & urban development (MA&UD;) department issued a G O (Rt No.1359) stating that Rs 22.50 …
The water-food-energy nexus is emerging as a critical issue in Asia and the Pacific. It is clear that solutions must be found to assure water security, thereby eliminating the immediate--and increasing--risk to food security, energy security, and economic growth and stability: water must be recognized as an economic as well …
The Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) has revealed that 90 percent of the rural population lack access to safe drinking water. PCRWR officials said that only 15 percent to 18 percent of the groundwater water samples taken were safe for drinking both in urban and rural areas …
Urbanisation is the predominant global phenomenon of our time. Groundwater is a critical, but unappreciated, resource for urban water supply. It is also a serious and costly hazard to urban infrastructure, and the ‘invisible link’ between many facets of the urbanisation process. Many important cities are located in ‘landscape lows’, …
