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 …
Mumbai More than a year after the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) came up with a project to protect the water mains and the adjoining municipal land from encroachments, barely 7 per cent of the total work has been completed. Of the total encroached area of 1.42 lakh square metres adjacent …
The Delhi high court has directed the Centre to constitute a taskforce to ensure compliance of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) norms for manufacturing and selling packed drinking water in the city. The court passed the direction after the complainant, Bottled Water Processors Association, moved the high court alleging …
C Shivakumar | ENS UNAWARE of World Health Organisation norms, Metro Water officials here along with Corporation authorities have decided to raise chlorine levels to 10ppm (parts per million) in water distributed through MW sytems, which experts say is harmful. The decision to raise residual chlorine (RC) level to 10 …
Paul John | TNN Ahmedabad: For now, the idea of a 24x7 water supply system in the city has been shelved. Four years ago, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) had conducted a detailed survey to gauge whether a private contractor supplying water and charging a fee by metering a consumer
Dharavi in Mumbai exemplifies what is most ugly and what is most inspiring about slum life in a city. How should it be redeveloped to remove the ugliness and yet retain its community spirit, enterprise, ambitions and hope? Current plans are focused on profit-making, by developers and government, with the …
This paper by AR Shivakumar of Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology was presented at a national seminar organised by ISRO at NIAS Bangalore in 2010. It highlights the grave water situation in the city where the water demand is ever on the increase with the increasing population. This …
June 10: Elected representatives including MPs, MLCs and MLAs from the city on Thursday accused officials of the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB;) of failing to stop polluted drinking water from being supplied to the city. They also alleged that the Board was giving wrong figures on …
Living in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas is associated with increased childhood mortality. As city living becomes the predominant social context in low- and middle-income countries, the resulting rapid urbanization
World Water Assessment Programme and UN-Habitat have released a joint Briefing Note 'Water for sustainable urban human settlements' highlighting critical water challenges related to today's unprecedented urban expansion
Man-made climate change is affecting water infrastructure in all regions of the world, affecting large numbers of people in their daily life and the development of their societies. As part of the World Bank Water Anchor's analytical and advisory work on water and climate change, consultants have investigated how private …
Non-revenue water (NRW) includes physical losses (pipe leaks) and commercial losses (illegal connections, unmetered public use, meter error, unbilled metered water, and water for which payment is not collected). NRW levels are high in many developing countries, and they can be expensive to reduce. This report presents a financial model …
Across the Kathmandu valley one encounters stone water spouts beautifully carved in the form of water deities - a crocodile head representing the carrier of the Goddess Ganga, a serpent head. The divinely hitis also serve a more earthly purpose-a vital source of drinking water to the valley's parched populace. …
The national mission on sustainable habitat approved by Prime minister. It is one of the eight missions under national climate change action plan and aims to make cities sustainable through improvements in energy efficiency in buildings, management of solid waste & shift to public transport. The National Mission for Sustainable …
Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal on Tuesday announced an ambitious pan-Punjab project to provide clean portable water to all cities in the State under which Reverse Osmosis system (ROs) would be installed in every municipal ward of all cities. Speaking to the media after dedicating to the people …
S Balakrishnan I TNN Mumbai: Chief minister Ashok Chavan has approved the proposal to set up a desalination plant in the city to reduce the acute shortage of water. Chavan, who on Sunday visited the Rs 231.34-crore desalination plant set up by the Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd (CPCL) at Kattupalli …
Mumbai The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) restored the water supply to Malad, Goregaon, Kandivali and Dahisar on Sunday evening. The supply to these areas was affected after an underground tunnel burst at Malad owing to illegal borewell digging. The BMC took 101 days to repair the tunnel and restore the …
Lucknow: VIP residential colonies might be enjoying 24-hours of power supply through arrangement of an alternate feeder in this sweltering weather, but not many would know that the Gaughat and Balaganj water pumping stations, which are crucial for regular supply of water to the Old City area of the state …
