Central to the achievement of the Agenda for Sustainable Development is an adequate, equitably distributed and fully supported health workforce. Nurses are the largest occupational group and represent an indispensable force with which to combat inequities in access to health services and progress towards health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), while …
This has reference to the excellent article entitled “Cauvery Dispute: A Lament and a Proposal” (EPW, 30 March 2013) by Ramaswamy R Iyer on the history, complex dynamics and current status of the Cauvery River dispute. I run a conservation foundation in Bangalore and, as much of our work is …
At the honk of a water tanker, hundreds of women in Bedi village dash to Khari Chowk, leaving aside all other errands. In no time, the queue to fill water stretches for at least half a km and women – some in their 70s and some even pregnant – wait …
TURA: In view of the severe water crisis in Tura and surrounding areas, West Garo Hills District Administration held a meeting with the lines departments, civil societies, Church leaders and locality development committees on Friday afternoon to discuss an urgent action plan to tide over the current water crisis. The …
The rapid growth of urban India has added new saliency to the resource conflict between the burgeoning cities and village India that continues to be the home for vast majority of Indians. Cities, like living organisms, depend on external metabolic flows to keep them alive. Among all the metabolic flows …
The Delhi Jal Board (DJB) today released its annual budget of Rs 3951.78 crore for the financial year 2013-14, announcing an increase in the net revenue surplus from Rs 40.56 crore in 2007-08 to Rs 233.57 crore during 2013-14. "The DJB's dependence on the government for operational costs has been …
This year’s drought cannot be called worse than the one in 1972: SANDRP While the Maharashtra government is crying hoarse about this year’s drought surpassing the one in 1972 and farmers are cutting off their crops and digging deeper than ever for water, an analysis based on rainfall patterns blames …
A large part of Maharashtra has been declared drought-hit. But distribution of water is quite incongruous. While the few who are politically and financially powerful take the lion’s share for sugarcane crops, thermal plants and other industries, the rest are struggling to survive. Read More: http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/drought-equity
Congress terms new bill as anti-farmer, plans statewide agitation The Gujarat Irrigation and Drainage Bill, 2013, which was passed in the state assembly on February 27, amidst opposition from the Congress, has got the assent from Governor Dr Kamla Beniwal, water resources minister Babu Bokhiria said on Thursday "I got …
World Water Day It would be too late to realise for Bangaloreans if necessary action to use water judiciously is not adopted now. Even with alarming low reservoir levels recorded at Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) and Kabini at present, there has not been any significant effort taken by BWSSB to …
New Delhi: The mercury is rising but-Delhi Jal Board says it is well placed to supply water this summer. For one, it has taken measures to rationalize its system, and Haryana is also unlikely to disrupt supply in the light of plentiful rainfall. DJB officials say the board has reorganized …
Some 1.2 billion people—almost a fifth of the world—live in areas of physical water scarcity, while another 1.6 billion face what can be called economic water shortage. The situation is only expected to worsen as population growth, climate change, investment and management shortfalls, and inefficient use of existing resources restrict …
Is the PPP model going to work in the field of drinking water services? Mana-ging director Patrick Rous-seau of the French MNC giant Veolia India who has been providing 24x7 drinking water to the municipalities of Belgaum, Gulbarga and Hubli-Dharwad in Karnataka feels it is imminently possible. “We joined hands …
Some 1.2 billion people—almost one fifth of the world—live in areas of physical water scarcity, while another 1.6 billion face what can be called economic water shortage. The situation is only expected to worsen as population growth, climate change, investment and management shortfalls, and inefficient use of existing resources restrict …
The International Day of Action for Rivers on March 14 passed by without a murmur in Bangalore. A city that drew on two reservoirs of the Arkavathy for its water supply, now has no words left for the river that satiated a third of its water needs. Yet, plans to …
The move comes in the wake of severe water shortage across the State The Food Safety Commissioner, Biju Prabhakar, has issued a special set of guidelines to ensure the supply of drinking water through tanker lorries in the district. The guidelines were issued in the wake of a severe shortage …
Total Contribution Would Be Close To 150 Crore Pune: The state cooperation department has decided to raise funds for people in the water scarcity-hit areas from cooperative banks and credit societies. The total contribution would be close to Rs 150 crore, said officials from the state cooperation department. Last week, …
Collector wells of the scheme energised on Thursday All the three collector wells on the Coleroon river and the common sump of the Rs.221.42-crore new drinking water augmentation scheme were energised on Thursday, paving the way for supply of water from the scheme by this month end ahead of the …
Residents to get 20-litre cans at Rs. 12; novel project to boost local body’s income Amidst the growing popularity of packaged drinking water, Mudichur panchayat near Tambaram has ventured into a novel project of supplying purified water in 20-litre cans at a subsidised price to its residents. The panchayat will …
A Bill to provide for nationalisation of inter-State rivers for the purpose of equitable distribution of river waters among the States and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Hyderabad: Irrespective of the quantity of water they get, residents of the Secunderabad Cantonment will have to pay Rs 315 per month towards water bills from the month of May, as against Rs 145 they are paying now. The Board, comprising elected representatives of the people, has approved the more …
