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 …
India has the world’s second largest urban population (after China). This paper shows the large disparities within this urban population in healthrelated indicators. It shows the disparities for child and maternal health, provision for health care and housing conditions between the poorest quartile and the rest of the urban population …
Union water resources minister Salman Khurshid on Saturday said that the biggest problem for Delhi in coming years would be to ensure availability of water for everyone. He was participating in
This new report on Indian urban infrastructure and services by the High Powered Expert Committee (HPEC) chaired by Isher Judge Ahluwalia set up by the Ministry of Urban Development in May, 2008 documents the nature of the urbanisation challenges facing India. It argues that the challenge of managing urbanisation will …
This paper discusses the operational and tariff-related factors that impede cost recovery by urban water service providers in India. Also focuses on policy reform and practical initiatives to achieve improved cost recovery. The report draws on a Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) study from 2008 which made a comparative analysis …
This Report comes to the conclusion that India’s economic growth momentum cannot be sustained if urbanisation is not actively facilitated. Nor can poverty be addressed if the needs of the urban poor are isolated from the broader challenges of managing urbanisation. Cities will have to become the engines of national …
The Delhi Jal Board (DJB) on Monday introduced a liberalised scheme, giving consumers with unauthorised water connections a chance to get their connections regularised by March 31. The Jal Board has announced that unauthorised water connections would be regularised subject to legal and technical feasibility, and conformity with rules, regulations …
CHENNAI: Chennai Metrowater has recorded a net deficit for the fifth consecutive year by registering Rs. 99.5 crore loss in 2009-2010. The water agency started making losses since 2005-2006, the final year of the previous All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam regime. The last occasion when the agency's income exceeded …
MUMBAI: The 12.24 km underground tunnel connecting Maroshi to Ruparel College is almost complete with the Vakola-Mahim portion getting ready on Tuesday. Work on the remaining portion-from Mahim to Ruparel College-will be completed in a couple of months, said officials. The area between and Ruparel College currently get water from …
There is a peculiar challenge that goes beyond my understanding. Maybe as a discerning reader, you have a solution. Life in the city would not be possible without some very basic elements – electricity, water, gas, phones and public transport. These contribute significantly to a good quality of life in …
An Act further to amend the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Act, 1964. This Act may be called the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage (Amendment) Act, 2011.
This report fulfils the requirements of Deliverable 3.6.1 within work package 3.6 of the PREPARED Enabling change project (EC Seventh Framework Programme Theme 6). The report evaluates existing methods applied to quantify and reduce uncertainty in models applied to UWS, and in other related fields. Further, the report reviews the …
Call it the fallout of rapid urbanisation or plain negligence of the authorities, groundwater in Dhaka is sinking at an alarming rate. According to a study by the Institute of Water Modelling in Dhaka in 2009, groundwater in the city is going down three metres every year. It has sunk …
Call it the fallout of rapid urbanisation or plain negligence of the authorities, groundwater in Dhaka is sinking at an alarming rate. According to a study by the Institute of Water Modelling in Dhaka in 2009, groundwater in the city is going down three metres every year. It has sunk …
Business is brisk for John Daniel. He has sold more than 4,000 rainwater filters, mostly in Bengaluru, in the past eight months. This is a sudden climb from the 1,000-odd filters he sold in the previous five years. Sales shot up after the Karnataka government made rainwater harvesting (RWH) compulsory …
Urban renewal, with a focus on inclusive development of urban centres, is one of the thrust areas in the National Common Minimum Programme and accordingly the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission was launched. This paper analyses the present urban development policies with a focus on coverage at the state …
TO IDENTIFY illegal water connections, the Hyderabad water department has decided to offer reward to informers. The Hyderabad Metro Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWSSB) serves 750,000 connections; officials estimate 40,000 are ghost customers illegally tapping the network. The department will introduce the scheme in 2011 and give a reward …
The linking of eight rivers through tunnels and storing the water in seven reservoirs at various stages under PAP constitute an engineering marvel of the Kongu region A full Pilloor dam with the intake well, which supplies drinking water to Coimbatore, in the foreground. (Right) Siruvani dam which is the …
KOCHI: The Kochi Corporation authorities and the Kerala Water Authority (KWA) officials will discuss various issues related to the shortage of potable water in the city at a meeting convened by Finance Minister Thomas Isaac to be held on January 11 at the Ernakulam Guest House.
