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 …
Water delivery is the responsibility of the government. Thirty years ago many parts of Delhi received drinking water much of the time. Today no area receives water round the clock and worse, the water delivered is contaminated. In common with cities in many developing countries, industrialisation, rapid urbanisation and growing …
Humanity has just crossed a major landmark in its history with the majority of people now living in cities. Cities have long been known to be society's predominant engine of innovation and wealth creation, yet they are also its main source of crime, pollution, and disease. The inexorable trend toward …
The relationship between climate change and cities is complex. City-based activities contribute significant amounts of greenhouse gases and, simultaneously, are often more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Dhaka is now the world's eighth largest city and a significant proportion of Bangladesh's greenhouse gases are generated there although, relative …
In this paper we illustrate the socio-economic dynamics of peri-urban zones of Indian Metropolitan cities, which are at the heart of the current urban liberalisation. For this, we study the impact of the water purchasing agreement the Metropolitan water board signed with some farmers of peri-urban areas of Chennai (formerly …
Using the 1994 Bolivian Integrated Household Survey, this study analyzes the equity implications of urban water sector reform including both increased water prices and increased access to piped water. Household water expenditures are examined by income decile, and low-income households are found to spend a higher percentage of income on …
Definitions and indicators play an important role in determining success. In the context of the Millennium Development Goals, the global target of reducing the proportion of population without access to improved sources of water is expected to be met. A major contributor to success is India, where the proportion of …
on january 25, 2007, the Union government approved 22 more urban development projects in 11 cities across the country. The Union ministry of urban development (moud) approved Rs 795 crore under the Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission (jnnurm), a central government initiative for infrastructure development in cities. Cities that received …
Human-induced modifications on land and water are posing a serious threat to geo-environment in general and groundwater regime in particular along the fringe areas of most cities in the world. Use of Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System (RS-GIS) techniques is one solution to generate sound database for identifying problems, …
The Punjab Urban Water and Sanitation Policy of the Government of the Punjab is intended to guide and support provincial institutions, District Governments, Tehsil Municipal Administrations, Water Utilities and communities for improving water and sanitation services. This policy is a result of wider stakeholder consultations held at the provincial and …
This report brings together a wide range of water-related issues, problems, and challenges from a future-oriented, multi-disciplinary, and multisectoral perspective from around the Asia and Pacific region. Highlighted are important topics that have been neglected or are being inadequately considered in most countries of the region. Among these is the …
ADMINISTRATORS of urban water facilities in India often adopt a parochial view. The water suppliers discourage measures such as rainwater harvesting, arguing that it reduces their revenue by cutting down demand, especially from high-end consumers. There have been cases in Bangalore of customers being harassed by officials of the Bangalore …
There is a continuous increase in expenditure for running municipal water supply systems in India. Many water treatment plants of various capacities are being constructed to cope with the increasing water demand. Now the most efficient and cost effective way to supply water to a locality with maximum production cost …
karnataka's decade-old plan for creating a Greater Bangalore entity has finally got a fillip with the state government's recent go-ahead for the merger of seven city municipal councils (cmcs), one town municipal council (tmc) and over 100 villages within the Bangalore metropolitan area under the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (bmp) limits. …
Urban India is beginning to explode. The question is if our cities will be able to manage this growth or will they just burst at the seams? The reason I ask this is because we still don't have a clue about what urban growth will mean for us. We cannot …
function table() { var popurl="image/20060930/34.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=375,height=350,scrollbars=yes") } Drought-stricken Toowoomba, the second largest land-bound city in Queensland, Australia, has plans for an integrated water-management strategy
all summer, tankers supply water to upmarket Srinagar, but they don't meet safety norms. They are filled at Iqbal Park filling station with the help of pressure filters, which don't meet norms set by the Central Public Health and Environmental Engineering Organisation and the Union ministry of urban development. The …
During six months before the survey 41 per cent of the report's customer respondents made more than one small payment (US $0.45 on average) to doctor meters into lowering bills, 30 per cent made more than one small payment (around US $1.90) to expedite repair work and 12 per cent …
