Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
This latest manual covers a comprehensive set of methods for water footprint accounting and shows how water footprints cane be calculated for individual processes/products, as well as for consumers, nations and businesses. Also includes methods for water footprint sustainability assessment and a library of water footprint response options. Many individuals …
At a time of mounting population pressures, environmental declines, and growing demand for water, the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
The policy assessment findings that emerge from the report intends to deliver a strategic summary of the current policy frameworks on water resources and climate change among major donor organizations (DANIDA, DFID, DGIS, GTZ, SDS, and USAID) and indicate areas that could be strengthened and/or gaps to fill in these …
This publication is the second of a set of three WaterAid discussion papers on how to improve water and sanitation services to poor people. The set includes: Access for the poor and excluded: tariffs and subsidies for urban water supply; Water utilities that work for poor people: Increasing viability through …
The global climate is changing - drinking-water and sanitation services have to prepare for the impact. If the widely anticipated flood and drought consequences of climate change come to pass, then both established water and sanitation services and future gains in access and service quality will be at risk. The …
The Cabinet on Monday approved an amendment in the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) Ordinance to enable it to regulate marketing and pricing of ethanol as petroleum product. Giving details of the Cabinet meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, State Minister for Information Samsam Ali Bokhari said …
The federal cabinet approved the National Drinking Water Policy on Monday, which stipulates that the respective tiers of the government devise strategies and action plans to ensure access to safe drinking water for the entire nation by 2025. The Ministry of Environment, in collaboration with the United Nations Children
The National Water Board (NWB) is meeting on September 18 to discuss a five-point agenda, with focus on the review of 2002 national water policy. The meeting, which would be attended by all State water resource secretaries, takes place after a two-year gap and coincides with the drought in 278 …
Rural water supply scheme for Andhra has no room for public opinion; price may be hiked later villagers in Andhra Pradesh will soon get their drinking water supply in 20-litre plastic containers. The government has shortlisted five companies that would treat raw water and sell it to villagers. The government …
This paper will first provide a synoptic account of the problems relating to water; from that diagnostic statement it will proceed to an adumbration of the responses needed and the changes in water policy that they call for; and it will then outline the water law reform that this requires. …
Indian environmentalism has been an important, even defining, element of a distinctly Southern brand of environmentalism. Largely rooted in local struggles over access to and control over resources, a stylized Southern environmentalism is closely connected to concerns over social justice and driven by subalterns rather rather than professionals? From this …
This report focuses on the establishment of the Red River Basin Organization (RRBO) in Vietnam, but expands its analysis to the wider transformations of the water sector that impinge on the formation and effectiveness of this organization. A few reflections on the policy process are drawn from this analysis, albeit …
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: The Centre plans to ensure safe drinking water to all habitations by 2012. It has also set a target of covering rural India under the
This article discusses the various components that impact effective water quality management in rural India. Experience suggests that redesigning of data management programme at village, district and at national level, upgradation of district-level laboratories and addressing technical, legal and institutional components should become the first steps in achieving effective water-quality …
Cities in India are moving towards commercially viable models of urban water and sanitation delivery to fill the widening gap between demand and supply. Cost recovery through upfront beneficiary contributions is increasingly becoming a key consideration in the provision of piped water and sewerage. This paper examines the Greater Bangalore …
As governments across Asia are searching for ways to increase water security for rural and urban water uses, the need to articulate water rights and improve water allocation practices is rapidly becoming a priority issue to them. The process is made more complex by rapid urbanization, climate change, and other …
The Secretariat of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) has invited comments on a draft Water Policy Advocacy Framework, which seeks to provide a framework for the Secretariat to advocate for the development of water resource management policies at country level. The Framework was developed on the understanding that, …
The World Water Week in Stockholm is the leading annual global meeting place for capacity-building, partnership-building and follow-up on the implementation of international processes in water and development. Future-oriented, interdisciplinary and intersectoral, the World Water Week brings together experts from government, research, business, intergovernmental agencies, non-governmental organisations,civil society and United …
Good water-management policies are needed to cope with flood-drought cycles Good water-management policies are needed for India to cope with flood-drought cycles, often in neighbouring areas. Last fortnight, the dominant image on TV screens was drought. This fortnight, it was vast parts of the country drowned in water by the …
