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 …
Freshwater scarcity is increasingly perceived as a global systemic risk. Previous global water scarcity assessments, measuring water scarcity annually, have underestimated experienced water scarcity by failing to capture the seasonal fluctuations in water consumption and availability. We assess blue water scarcity globally at a high spatial resolution on a monthly …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of U.R. Beniwal Vs. State of Rajasthan & Ors dated 15/02/2016 regarding unlawful extraction of groundwater by industries in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. It is undisputed that the area in question is a ‘Dark Zone’ for the purpose of extraction of water. Counsel …
Aurangabad: Water expert Madhavrao Chitale on Sunday said that diverse conditions have created issues related to equal distribution of water and localised sources of water must be created. He was speaking at a two-day conference on climate change and rural development at the Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University. The conference …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Shailesh Singh V/s. Hotel Holiday Regency, Moradabad & Ors. dated 11/01/2016 regarding groundwater extraction by hotels in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh. Five hotels are arrayed as the respondents in the present application seeking restoration of environment and measures to protect the …
Colombia has declared a red alert because of low water levels in two key rivers which supply hundreds of towns and cities in the South American country, President Juan Manuel Santos said on Wednesday. A fifth of Colombia's municipalities are already under water rationing measures as the El Nino phenomenon …
The Rs. 1,295 crore Combined Water Supply Scheme (CWSS), which was formally inaugurated by the Chief Minister on Monday, will cover residents of Vellore Corporation, 11 municipalities, five town panchayats and 944 rural habitations in the district. Implemented in three packages. Touted as an answer to the acute drinking water …
The Environmental Justice Atlas or EJAtlas.org is a freely accessible on-line interactive information portal that helps academic scholars and public policymakers across the world in identifying exemplary cases of peoples’ resistance against climate change and environment degradation. EJAtlas.org is conceived by the EJOLT project – an acronym for the ‘Environmental …
Water cooperation has received prominent focus in the post-2015 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While proposals for measuring water cooperation appear to be converging toward a small set of indicators, the degree to which these proposed indicators draw on past work is unclear. This paper mines relevant past work …
In a case of alleged “misappropriation of material”, Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) has placed under suspension deputy chief engineer, distribution circle, Barnala; additional superintending engineer (SE), sub-urban division, Barnala, and eight others with immediate effect. They were suspended on account of “irregularities and negligence”, allegedly “committed” by them …
Interbasin water transfers are globally important water management strategies, yet little is known about their role in the hydrologic cycle at regional and continental scales. Specifically, there is a dearth of centralized information on transfer locations and characteristics, and few analyses place transfers into a relevant hydrological context. We assessed …
The on-going battle for equitable distribution of water is likely to intensify in coming days as an action committee demanding release of water in Jayakwadi dam from the upstream Godavari basin on Tuesday said it would take out huge rally on November 6 to press for the cause. The Marathwada …
Global freshwater vulnerability is a product of environmental and human dimensions, however, it is rarely assessed as such. Our approach identifies freshwater vulnerability using four broad categories: endowment, demand, infrastructure, and institutions, to capture impacts on natural and managed water systems within the coupled human–hydrologic environment. These categories are represented …
With the rapid population growth, ecological pressure caused by human activities on rivers is growing. Decision makers are often faced with the dilemma of how to maintain economic growth while also maintaining the resources of a river and its environment. In this study, a model has been proposed for the …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Steel Authority of India vs. Appeal Committee dated 22/09/2015. The appeal filed by the Appellant (Steel Authority of India) against the assessment order dtd. 31.01.1994 passed by the Member Secretary, MPPCB assessing an amount of Rs. …
GURGAON: HUDA has asked the state government to appoint an independent consultant to audit the water supply needs of the city before it releases extra water for MCG areas. HUDA administrator Anita Yadav said that although the urban development authority has sufficient treated water available for distribution, the water demand …
ISLAMABAD: The Indus River System Authority (Irsa) has conceded that Pakistan is becoming a water-stressed country as the availability of per capita water has declined. Irsa told Senate the other day, “It is true that Pakistan is becoming a water-stressed country as the per capita water availability has went down …
PUNE: The failure of urban and rural local self-governing bodies in delivering basic services like water has deepened the crisis caused by deficient rainfall with various municipal corporations and councils struggling to cope with the drought-like situation. A recent Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India performance audit of 36 …
About one-fifth of the worlds countries will face acute water shortage by 2040, as climate change will disrupt rainfall patterns. Population expansion will push up the demand for water, according to an analysis by non-profit research organisation, the World Resources Institute (WRI).
The law and policy frameworks for allocation or reallocation of water to different uses, or within a category of use, remain underdeveloped in India. This paper intends providing a starting point for a conversation on the law and policy dimensions of inter-sectoral water allocation. Focusing on a specific inter-sectoral water …
