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 …
The World Health Organization (WHO) unveiled a global plan to better integrate water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services with four other public health interventions to accelerate progress in eliminating and eradicating neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) by 2020. Millions suffer from devastating WASH-related neglected tropical diseases – such as soil-transmitted helminthiasis, …
The State Government has made a plan to implement a Mega Flow Water Scheme at a cost of Rs2,600 crore through which 70 litre of safe water per head would be provided to all households in the State. Rural Development Minister Badrinarayan Patra said this in the Assembly on Tuesday …
By now, everyone in India understands that we have a serious water crisis. Too many of our rivers are polluted, dammed, or dying. Rainfall is becoming increasingly erratic, and expected to become more so. Our groundwater is depleting fast. Our lakes are drying up or filling with sewage, especially in …
Patna: More than half the population in Patna has no access to safe drinking water. It ranks 6th in the descending order among 14 large capital cities of India as far as open defecation is concerned, said Bhim Reddy, associate fellow, Institute for Human Development (IHD), at a daylong workshop …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on contamination of drinking water, 03/08/2015. Rajasthan is the worst State affected with 22,254 water quality affected habitations which are yet to be provided safe drinking water as on 1/4/2015. In Rajasthan, as on 1/4/2015, as reported by the State Government into the online Integrated …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on contaminated drinking water, 23/07/2015. As on 1/4/2015, States have reported 66,761 rural habitation with water quality contaminations like arsenic, fluoride, iron, salinity and nitrate. State-wise details of water quality affected habitations which are yet to be provided with safe drinking water is at Annex-I. …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Sunita Pandey & Anr. Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 23/07/2015 regarding arsenic in the ground water of District Ballia, Uttar Pradesh.
Apprehension still haunts different quarters as to whether the administration would be able to provide safe drinking water to the estimated 30 lakh Rath Yatra visitors as majority of water samples collected from different sources were found to be contaminated.According to sources, a total of 679 water samples were tested …
Lack of progress on sanitation threatens to undermine the child survival and health benefits from gains in access to safe drinking water, warn WHO and UNICEF in a report tracking access to drinking water and sanitation against the Millennium Development Goals. The Joint Monitoring Programme report, Progress on Sanitation and …
LUDHIANA: PAU claims to have developed a water-testing kit that costs only Rs 40. Punjab Agricultural University's department of microbiology says the kit is portable and is able to find out whether the tested water is drinkable or not. It is available at the PAU department's building for Rs 40. …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Tribunal on its own motion Vs. Govt. of NCT, Delhi & Ors. dated 19/06/2015 regarding water supply in the city of Delhi. The Tribunal noted that stinking and dirty water flows through the water supply lines …
Majority of the population in the country is exposed to the hazards of drinking unsafe and polluted water from both surface and ground water sources. According to newly released Pakistan Economic Survey 2014-15, as derived from the national water quality monitoring programme carried out by the Pakistan Council of Research …
Riding on the success of ensuring pure drinking water to 2500-odd residents of Chitlapakkam Town Panchayat in Kancheepuram district, the Directorate of Town Panchayats has decided to extend its arms to other areas by installing more such reverse osmosis plants across the State. Joint Director of Town Panchayats, S.M. Malaiaman …
A host of people in Comilla are suffering from arsenicosis, with the majority contracting the disease by drinking water rich in arsenic. According to government estimates, some 2,997 people were diagnosed with arsenic poisoning in 16 upazilas of the district till December 2014, but non-governmental organisations say the number of …
AIADMK deputy legislature party leader A. Anbalagan along with residents of Uppalam constituency on Monday staged a protest by locking the office of the Public Health Division of PWD protesting contamination of drinking water. The protestors resorted to a road blockade on Subbiah Salai. Mr. Anbalagan said people from Vanarapet, …
Nagpur: At least 40,000 people residing in Sadbhavna Nagar and Srinagar are getting contaminated water since the last three years. Despite complaints to NMC and Orange City Water, the firm implementing the 24X7 water supply project in the city, the residents are yet to get any respite, informed Congress corporator …
A Rs. 365-crore proposal to ensure round-the-clock supply of drinking water to Chitradurga has been submitted to the State government, G.H. Thippareddy, MLA, has said. If the government gives approval, the drinking water problem would be permanently solved, he said after inaugurating a drinking water purification unit installed at the …
The Center today launched a National Rural Drinking Water and Sanitation Awareness Week at Village Kankrola-Bhanglora of Gurgaon District in Haryana. The week long campaign inaugurated by Shri Birender Singh, Union Minister for Rural Development , Drinking Water and Sanitation and Panchayati Raj will conclude at Kohima, Nagaland on 22nd …
This study is focused on the elemental analysis of fourteen-branded domestic bottled water available in the Al- Qassim area of the Saudi Arabia. The concentration of nineteen elements (Be, B, Al, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, As, Se, Mo, Ag, Cd, Sb, Ba, Sn, and Pb) on the …
BENEATH the frozen flanks of East Asia’s most revered mountain, in China’s north-eastern Jilin province, a huddle of sleek new processing plants will soon be packaging its precious essence: spring water. Known to the Chinese as Changbaishan, the mountain and its premium mineral water are the stars of the country’s …
