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 …
IN A landmark amendment to the law governing Maharashtra’s water regulatory system, the state has placed agriculture above industry in priority for allocating water from dams. Before the amendment of the Maharashtra Water Resources Regulatory Authority (MWRRA) Act 2005, Maharashtra was the only state in the country to have given …
Keeping with its proposed plan to involve private sector in the water sector, the Delhi government on Wednesday constituted a high- powered committee to draft a roadmap and bring reforms in the management and distribution of water in the city, besides restructuring the Delhi Jal Board. The move comes a …
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda reiterated on Sunday that his regime was committed to ensuring equitable distribution of water in all parts of the State. Addressing a rally at the Charki Dadri, he also announced a slew of incentives for the region, including setting up of a new secretariat …
The Annual Plan 2011-12 of Delhi was finalized in a meeting held today between Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. The Planning Commission has approved the plan outlay of Rs 15,133 crore for the year 2011-12. This includes Rs 14,200 crore state plan …
Tribal Development Minister and Ujjain District In-charge Minister Kunwar Vijay Shah has instructed the officials to find a solution to deal with drinking water crisis. He also asked to install solar energy pump in order to conduct 'Nal-Jal Yojna' smoothly. Kunwar Vijay Shah was addressing the meeting of district planning …
This edition of Learning Lessons illustrates how lessons from evaluation can augment ongoing efforts for mitigating risks in the urban water supply sector at the institutional, organizational, operational, and project levels. It also aims to enhance development effectiveness of ADB assistance in the sector. Evaluation lessons are drawn from actual …
As water gets scarce, the lendings in the sector by international financial institutions like the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) are being looked into more critically. Most critics believe that with small investments, the banks have been able to dictate water policies in developing countries. These institutions …
Nearly 3 billion additional urban dwellers are forecasted by 2050, an unprecedented wave of urban growth. While cities struggle to provide water to these new residents, they will also face equally unprecedented hydrologic changes due to global climate change. Here we use a detailed hydrologic model, demographic projections, and climate …
The CPI (M) Delhi Committee has condemned the Delhi Government's proposal to privatise water distribution in the city. Seeking an immediate withdrawal of the proposal, the party has called the privatisation policy as
Call it the fallout of seven years of severe drought or government inaction, a silent revolution is brewing in Lalitpur district of Uttar Pradesh. Communities are getting united and digging channels to bring water from government canals to their fields. Some are volunteering labour, while those belonging to Scheduled castes …
This report fulfils the requirements of Deliverable 3.6.1 within work package 3.6 of the PREPARED Enabling change project (EC Seventh Framework Programme Theme 6). The report evaluates existing methods applied to quantify and reduce uncertainty in models applied to UWS, and in other related fields. Further, the report reviews the …
The objective of this report is to explore how river basins in the Himalayan region, and particularly shared water resources, can foster cooperation and security between Bangladesh, China, India and Nepal. The conventional view is that depleting water resources, growing problem of pollution, uncertain risks posed by climate change together …
With the water sharing row between Haryana and Delhi still unresolved, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has set up a four-member Group of Ministers (GoM) headed by Home Minister P Chidambaram to work out a compromise between the two states. On Wednesday, sources in the government said the GoM, set up …
All parties must learn to give and take Business Standard / New Delhi January 06, 2011, 0:26 IST All river water-sharing awards invite controversy. So, the varied reaction to the ruling given by the second Krishna water disputes tribunal, headed by Justice Brijesh Kumar Mishra, is not surprising. But what …
Jan. 3: Union Minister of state for steel and mines A. Sai Pratap termed the judgement given by the tribunal on Krishna waters as unjustified. Talking to newsmen here on Monday, he said that all the state ministers and himself would meet the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, soon and …
On September 20, 1996 an overwhelming 96.5% of the members present at the Joint Session of the Nepalese Parliament hurriedly ratified the Mahakali Treaty to fulfill the requirements of the Article 126 of the 1990 Constitution of Nepal.
Global population growth exerts stresses on river basins that provide food, water, energy and other ecosystem services. In some basins, evidence is emerging of failures to satisfy these demands. This paper assembles data from nine river basins in a framework that relates water and food systems to development. The framework …
This paper analyses water availability and use within and between the Challenge Program on Water and Food basins. It describes the main features of water demand and supply in the basins and indicates where there are deficits and opportunities for development of water resources. A typology of basin water resources …
