The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Drinking Water Facilities in Rural Areas, 11/07/2019. The Ministry administers centrally sponsored National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP) through which it provides technical and financial assistance to the States including Chhattisgarh for improving the coverage of drinking water facilities in rural areas. States are …
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday sought response of the Railways on the steps it has taken and proposes to take to ensure availability of clean and safe drinking water on its trains as well as stations. A Bench of Chief Justice D.N. Patel and Justice C. Hari Shankar issued …
A one-week delay in the monsoon’s arrival has laid bare the precariousness of India’s water situation. The images of thousands of Chennai residents running after water tankers were telecast by BBC and CNN. Several people had to walk for miles to get drinking water in parched lands. If this was …
Kwekwe City Council is losing between 45 and 55 percent of its treated water to leakages due to ageing pipes and vandalism, town clerk Dr Lucia Mnkandla has said. Speaking during a consultative meeting on the supplementary budget recently, Dr Mnkandla said the cash strapped local authority had been failing …
Interruptions to water supplies are common after eight years of near-anarchy since Muammar Gaddafi was ousted, but a wider crisis is now coming to a head in a country made up mainly of arid desert and split between competing administrations. In western Libya, finding clean water has become difficult because …
Groundwater currently provides 98 percent of all the drinking water supply in Bangladesh. Groundwater is found throughout Bangladesh but its quality (that is, arsenic and salinity contamination) and quantity (that is, water storage depletion) vary across hydrological environments, posing unique challenges to certain geographical areas and population groups. Yet, no …
JIND: Residents of 11 villages took out a shirtless march on Monday in Narwana town of district Jind seeking water. They demanded that water be released from Bhakhra canal into the minor canal reaching here and threatened that they would stop railway tracks if their demand was not met soon. …
CSC has inked an MoU with the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) for installing water filtration plants in villages. The government’s rural e-governance initiative — Common Service Centres (CSCs) — will now launch a pilot project to provide clean and safe drinking water in 50 villages, following which it will …
Companies are piloting devices that convert moisture into water Google ‘atmospheric water generators’, or AWG, and you get a range of sites that sell them. Chennai-based start-up VayuJal Technologies has produced four of these AWGs — three of 100 litres a day capacity, and one of 400 litres — on …
Speaking at the inauguration of a new water treatment plant at Chandrawal, he said 88% of all colonies in Delhi were getting piped water supply — an increase of 30% since AAP came to power in 2015. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Monday said the Delhi government would request more water …
Billions of people around the world are continuing to suffer from poor access to water, sanitation and hygiene, according to a new report by UNICEF and the World Health Organization. Some 2.2 billion people around the world do not have safely managed* drinking water services, 4.2 billion people do not …
To Reach All Households In Villages By 2024 What Swachh Bharat was for Modi 1.0, an ambitious programme of piped water to all willing households in rural areas might be for Modi 2.0. The government is poised to launch a massive effort to provide piped drinking water with issues of …
Given that water is a State subject, it will take the exercise of “cooperative federalism” to achieve the Modi government’s big-ticket agenda of providing piped drinking water to all households by the end of its second term, Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat said on Tuesday. He was speaking to …
To increase piped water coverage from the existing low 18 per cent to 100 per cent coverage by 2024, the Centre has requested all states to adopt an approach similar to the newly-formulated Jal Shakti Ministry that integrates all ministries and bodies dealing with water under one umbrella. The request …
A report submitted by the committee to the NGT on April 30 said RO plants were being installed indiscriminately without considering quality or source of raw water. An expert committee set up by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to study the use of reverse osmosis (RO) said water supplied by …
CANACONA: Even a year after National Green Tribunal (NGT) directed PVC pipe manufacturers to print a warning about the presence of harmful chemicals, including lead, in the pipes, evniornmentalists allege that manufacturers have allegedly failed to do so and allegedly continue to market the products without the mandatory warning. Jan …
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said not less than 47 million Nigerians still indulge in open defecation in the country. Water Sanitation And Hygiene (WASH) specialist of UNICEF, Bioye Ogunjobi, said this in Kano on Wednesday at the opening of a two-day media dialogue organised by the Ministry …
KATRA, May 20: National Conference Provincial President Devender Singh Rana today expressed serious concern over worsening environmental scenario due to solid waste dumps in the holy township of Katra, saying its immediate fallout on the Jhajjar Rivulet has hugely contaminated the water, main source of drinking water for a huge …
Dharmasthala, one of the well known pilgrimage centres on the foothills of the Western Ghats, is now reeling under water crisis. So much so that the temple might not have water even for abhisheka if it does not rain in a fortnight, according to D. Veerendra Heggade, the Pattadhikari of …
An irrigation officer said additional pumps would be required at Medigadda, Annaram and Sundilla to implement the proposal Hyderabad: Officials of the irrigation department estimate that the cost of the Kaleshwaram lift irrigation project will cross Rs 1 lakh crore if the decision of Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao to …
