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 …
Indore under water emergency THE Malwa region of western Madhya Pradesh is facing acute water shortage. Most reservoirs in the region dried up as early as December following a scant monsoon. While Ujjain residents are getting water supply for an hour in four days, Indore has declared water emergency from …
Coordination between the three departments of the municipality dealing with water supply from the Narmada project, the Yashwant Sagar reservoir and from tubewells will be improved. The responsibility of fixing leakages within 24 hours will rest with zonal assistant and sub-engineers. Public tubewells will be freed of encroachment and public …
Gambhir reservoir that supplies water to Ujjain has dried up. The Ujjain municipality plans to get water from Amla Vida Dam, 24 km away. The government might face resistance from farmers since the dam
This article is an interim outcome of an action research project being done on Water Governance under which an analysis of the sub-basin is being done to understand the dynamics of water allocation and regulation in practice. It studies inter-sectoral water allocation, planning and management in the last decade in …
All City areas would come under BMC piped water supply network. As the Union Urban Development Ministry on Wednesday cleared Rs 415.45 crore Water Supply Distribution Network Project for Bhopal under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). In a meeting at New Delhi, the Central Sanction and Monitoring …
New Delhi: The Indira Gandhi International Airport is now gearing up to have its own water supply in time for the Commonwealth Games. The new water distribution system from the Dwarka Water Treatment Plant was approved by the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) on Monday. While the Rs 133.5-crore project was …
The famous work of Hardin on 'The Tragedy of the Commons' explains why the Common Pool Resources (CPR) or Open Access Resources are over-exploited, degraded or depleted. The economic reason explains that "unregulated access to the CPR creates a decision making environment in which private benefits to an individual from …
This study addresses the question with a rigorous econometric approach and distills global results from a multitude of evidence. The data set compiled is unique in its coverage, size, and composition, making it possible to address for the first time methodological problems that have plagued empirical research and hampered conclusive …
Many rivers in India are shared resources, flowing through or between more than one province and more than one country. The combined effect of climatic stochasticity, rapid population growth and inefficient water infrastructure is increasing stress on river basin ecosystems.
Even as Himachal continues to plead its case for seeking a larger share from Punjab in the Shah Nehar irrigation project, a sum of Rs 17.28 crore has been given by the Punjab Government to the hill state. Although Himachal is demanding a sum of Rs 212 crore from Punjab …
Water supply and sewerage are essential components of infrastructure for urban settlements. The target for the Eleventh Five Year Plan (March 2012) has been kept at 985 MGD (million gallons a day) of water treated and supplied by the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) in Delhi according to the Economic Survey …
Transboundary rivers are increasingly being drawn upon to meet the needs of growing populations and economies. This increased pressure on the available water resources sharpens competing demands between countries, rural and urban areas, different user groups, and the river ecosystems themselves. The challenge is to balance these competing demands in …
The threat perception of scarcity and unjust distribution of water-a finite, pre-eminent natural resource-has made its relationship with conflict. It is an area of continued interest and debate in both the policy literature and popular press at the international level. In India too, the states are in conflict with each …
An inadequate piped water supply from the public utility, characterized by intermittence and unreliability, and supplemented by private uncontrolled groundwater abstraction, is a common feature of most Indian cities as well as other developing cities in the world Given the high level of pollution of urban aquifers, the usual diagnosis …
The objectives of this study were: ?to examine the various issues associated with irrigation potential creation, irrigation potential utilization, gross irrigation and net irrigation including the definition, the reporting practices and consistencies in the data; ?to suggest procedures for collection of related data to be applied uniformly throughout the country; …
In 2008, the Sudanese and Egyptian governments decided to resume work on the Jonglei Canal project, which had been abandoned for 24 years. This project in southern Sudan plans to by-pass, and thus drain, part of the wetlands of the Bahr al-Jabal and Bahr az-Zaraf rivers into the White Nile. …
Mangaloreans asked to pay more for less water to help repay loan Flawed policy and politics over water have left Mangaloreans high and dry. The city has been witnessing fights over water pricing, but the people are not convinced these are actually out of concern for them and not for …
It has been a hot, dry summer in the Middle East, and as water levels have plunged, political tensions have risen. In early July, Israel's Water Authority unveiled plans to combat what it called "the worst water crisis in the nation's history". Environmental campaigners responded by slating the Water Authority …
