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 …
NEW DELHI: Parched for water for long years, several areas of West Delhi including the mega township of Dwarka and the sprawling Najafgarh can now look forward to a better and more regular water supply. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court directed Haryana to release for Delhi the full 125 cusecs …
Building real cooperation on transboundary waters is always a lengthy and complex journey. Embracing cooperation is no simple task for a nation state, not least because of the perceived costs of the erosion of sovereignty, however small that erosion might be. While there are many examples of where cooperation is …
Transboundary waters are rising on the international agenda. As the forces of climate change, population shifts, and economic stress converge on water scarce countries, the issues of shared freshwater resources move from long term concern to geopolitical urgency. For many nations, transboundary water is becoming essential water.
Normal life was affected by soaring heat coupled with prolonged dry spell in Tripura as mercury touched 38.6 degree Celsius today, Met officials said today. Weathermen said Tripura recorded the maximum temperature of 39.9 degree Celsius yesterday, a record over the last 15 years. Director Met office, Dilip Saha said …
Boys digging the Ang river bed in search of water. PADAMPUR: In the elections that have gone by none of the leaders in their campaigns dared to raise the issue of water scarcity apprehending public wrath. Water scarcity has been a major problem the residents of Padampur NAC have been …
Shimla: The plan to transfer various water supply schemes to panchayti raj institutions (PRIs) in a phased manner has not made much headway. Only the partial control of about 1,200 out of the total over 7,900 schemes has been handed over to panchayati raj bodies so far. In such cases, …
Hazards of the proposed canal The proposed canal, dubbed Two Seas Canal, will pump water from the Red Sea to a height of 230 m above sea level, transport it along the Araba valley and then run down into the Dead Sea. The downhill flow will be harnessed to generate …
MUMBAI: If the BMC's claims are to be believed, there's good news for Mumbaikars. Civic officials say people won't reel under water cuts this summer as the quantity of water stored this year is almost double of that stored last year. Civic chief Jairaj Phatak said the stored water is …
Mumbai: The water consumption in the city has increased by 20% owing to the unusual heat wave experienced in the first week of April.The shooting up of the demand of water has affected the already overburdened water distribution system being maintained by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). With temperatures hovering …
In view of the unprecedented dry spell coupled with depleting ground water level in Guwahati owing to shortage of rainfall, the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) has pressed into service two of its water tankers to supply water, more particularly in areas that are not covered by its water piped network. …
PALAKKAD: The meeting of the Joint Water Regulation Board (JWRB) of the inter-State Parambikulam-Aliyar Project (PAP) will be held at Thiruvananthapuram on April 7. The meet will settle the water account of this water year, ending June, and will discuss water-sharing for next water year. The four-member board consists of …
South Africa is a water-stressed country and the efficient management of the demand for and frugal use of water is a topic that can no longer be avoided. Community-based natural resource management is an alternative approach to government stewardship of natural resources, and in the instance of water management it …
Construction of a new housing project adjacent to the Khurpa tal by the Army Welfare Housing Organization (AWHO) has caused afresh hue and cry among the villagers in the surrounding area when Dr. Ajay S. Rawat, Professor of History in Kumaon University filed a PIL against the illegal boring of …
Sindh Minister for Irrigation and Power Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that the Sindh Irrigation Drainage Authority (Sida) would play effective role to empower the stakeholders for improving the irrigation system at grass roots level to benefit the growers community of Sindh. This he said after the meeting with …
A water audit can serve as a very useful tool in planning and implementing measures for effective water management not only during periods of growth but also to address security of water supply during periods of water stress.
Large cities in China are facing serious problems associated with deterioration of water environments that has accompanied rapid economic growth. This paper discusses a case study of the situation of the city of Xi'an and the potential for improving infrastructure and transferring water rights between sectors for water conservation and …
China's rapid economic growth has been causing shortage of water resources in the North China and also has been leading to shortage of power in the coastal areas of East China. Therefore it began to execute the water right transfer policy from the agricultural sector to the power generation industry. …
Most of studies on Indian watershed are either case study based qualitative analysis which mainly focuses on the institutional arrangement of the program or static partial equilibrium econometric analysis of certain behavior of any parameters of the upstream or downstream activities. The objectives of this research are: to estimate the …
