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 …
Moving towards partial privatisation, the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) on Wednesday concluded a two-day Jal Bhagidari workshop held to create awareness about the revamping of the water supply, transmission and distribution network under the Nangloi Water Treatment Plant. The water utility has also come out with a booklet to sensitise …
MUMBAI: In his budget speech two months ago, the then municipal commissioner Subodh Kumar laid the grounds for additional water supply in the city. The completion of the Middle Vaitarna dam has spelled good news, with the BMC's hydraulic department preparing a circular to increase per capita water supply to …
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Thursday completed the roller-compacted concrete (RCC) work on the Middle Vaitarna dam project, which is expected to augment the water supply to the city by 455 million litres daily (MLD), in a record time. The BMC has claimed that the work on the country’s …
New Delhi: The first woman chief executive officer that Delhi Jal Board has ever had, Debashree Mukherjee has taken over the reins of the organization just before it enters its critical summer period. This is also a time when several projects have just been flagged off and are expected to …
New Delhi: In another attempt to allay fears that its public-private partnership projects are a precursor to privatization of the water utility, Delhi Jal Board has said it has sufficient water to ensure 24-hour supply for a large part of the city but is losing much of it through theft …
Bangalore city with an extent of 800 sq. km, located at more than 920 m amsl, forming part of the catchments of Arkavati river to the west and Ponnaiyar river (South Pinakini) to the east. Bangalore city forming a part of the semi-arid tract is in the agro-climatic environs of …
The water may be supplied to the consumers either- (1) by continuous system or (ii) intermittent system. In the continuous system, water is available to the consumers for all 24 hours a day. Whereas, the intermittent system supplies water only during the peak hours of water demand, which is fixed …
Untreated waste water is a health hazard. Nonetheless, it should be considered a resource. Unless it is recycled and re-used, it will be impossible to provide all people in the cities of developing countries with safe drinking water. The example of India shows that agglomerations cannot get ever more fresh …
This report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (C&AG;) relates to matters arising from performance audit of selected programmes and activities and compliance audit of Government departments and autonomous bodies. Compliance audit refers to examination of the transactions relating to expenditure of the audited entities to ascertain whether …
Guwahati: Multilateral agency Asian Development Bank will extend a $81 million loan to Assam under a scheme for providing piped drinking water to the city and other projects. An agreement to this effect was signed between ADB and the Assam government on Friday. The first tranche of Assam Urban Infrastructure …
The WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation (JMP) reports every two years on progress towards the drinking-water and sanitation target under Millennium Development Goal 7. This target calls for halving the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation between 1990 …
The majority of the world’s population now live in urban centres, which will also absorb virtually all population growth in the next century. Urbanisation involves major shifts in the ways people work and live, and offers unprecedented opportunities for improved standards of living, higher life expectancy and higher literacy levels, …
This advisory note on Improving Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Services (WSS) in India is an effort to provide guidance to States and Cities in adopting specific policies and governance structures for improving service delivery to the customers. The note seeks to address key policy, institutional, financial and professional issues …
The High Level Committee on Financing Infrastructure has constituted a subcommittee on Financing Urban Infrastructure with the following terms of reference: Year-wise investments for the twelfth plan; Sources of financing (viz. debt, equity, grants etc.,) anticipated in the 11th Plan and estimated for the twelfth plan; Innovative ways of financing …
This report initiated and authored by the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to safe drinking water and sanitation, Ms. Catarina de Albuquerque, offers solutions, ideas and pragmatic examples of legislation, policies, programmes, advocacy approaches and accountability mechanisms to demonstrate how the rights are becoming reality for the excluded, forgotten …
The purpose of this document is to highlight the impacts the Australian urban water industry are facing due to climate change and how the industry has adapted. It considers 'natural disasters' such as floods, droughts and bushfires, as well as changes to the average and extremes in temperatures and rainfall, …
Restoring traditional water structures hold key to making the region water secure. Read More - http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/kathmandu-valley-losing-its-ancient-water-wisdom
To improve water supply in Mehrauli, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Sunday laid the foundation stone of a time-bound scheme. The project, at a cost of Rs 150 crore, is expected to be completed in 21months. The area, at present, gets water twice a week and the scheme is aimed …
JAIPUR: The state government will receive Rs 630 crore as loan from French Development Agency (AFD) for Jodhpur water supply project, which is estimated to cost Rs 740 crore. The project aims to augment and extend the present system for meeting the water demand of Jodhpur city till 2029. An …
A huge population size, a rapidly growing economy and increasing levels of urbanization, coupled with the dwindling sources of freshwater, have made management of urban water supply one of the most important priorities in the development agenda of India. Water supply in India is mainly a responsibility of the individual …
