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 …
Reminding the obligations of a welfare state, the Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the Delhi Chief Secretary to convene a meeting of the various agencies concerned to chalk out a plan to ensure adequate and safe drinking water supply in the Capital.A Division Bench of the Court comprising Justice …
T. Ramakrishnan CHENNAI: The 100-MLD (million litres a day) Minjur desalination plant, which is being inaugurated by Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi on Saturday, is said to be the largest plant in the country. A senior official of the Chennai Metrowater says that there are some plants in Gujarat and their …
According to the 58th Round of National Sample Survey, 73.6% of urban households have access to tap water, 19.6% households have access to tubewell and hand pump and 5.1% have access to pump. However, there are 11 Nos. of towns/cities across the country which have no piped water supply (ANNEXURE-I). …
Planning to buy a new apartment in Bangalore? Make your own arrangements for drinking water supply. The Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) has decided not to sanction fresh water connections to multi-storeyed residential and commercial apartments within its limits till 2011 end. The reason they have come up …
The Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) would set up a 24x7 call centre and also provide one mobile squad each for four Assembly constituencies from next month to address grievances of city residents. Minister for BWSSB, IT/BT and Housing Katta Subramanya Naidu told reporters here the call centre …
Visakhapatnam, July 19: The district authorities would come up with short-term plans to solve drinking water problem in the city, said district collector J. Shyamala Rao. Conducting a meet here on Monday, the collector said,
Mumbai: Despite heavy showers, Mumbaikars will have to wait another month for water woes to end as the civic body has decided to extend the 15% water cut imposed on the city last year till August 15. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) was to take stock of the water situation …
Pune Even as the Pune Municipal Corporation authorities maintain that there is enough water supply to all areas, it's the newly developing areas of the city such as Dhanori that are facing an acute water crunch. With alternate day water supply or no supply at all for two to three …
Pune The water scarcity that hit the city hard last year had given a major fillip to the private water tankers business in the city with the owners making the most of the opportunity and exploiting the dire situation faced by citizens
The Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission adopted a reform-linked funding approach, the culmination of two decades of active debate and experimentation in the urban development sector. Yet, progress of both fund utilisation and reforms under the programme has been tardy. As a second phase of the mission is planned, …
NEW DELHI: The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has voiced concern about the quality of drinking water supplied by the Delhi Jal Board after testing several water samples. The issue was raised at a meeting of the MCD Standing Committee. According to statistics provided by the civic body's Health Department, out …
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi, already receiving flak for poor management during the monsoon season, on Wednesday claimed that more than 1,700 samples of water supplied by the Delhi Jal Board was unfit for drinking. The figures, furnished by the health department officials, led to allegations and counter allegations between …
Mumbai: Public water taps in the city could soon be a thing of the past. The state plans to replace them with bottled water booths to ensure slum dwellers get potable water at Rs5 for a 20-litre can. Water supply and sanitation minister Laxman Dhobale on Wednesday said his government …
METRO Water on Monda said the joint meeting of it officials and Corporation au thorities decided to raise th chlorine level and not the re sidual chlorine to 10 ppm i water distributed through th Metro Water system. "It is clarified that durin the joint meeting of the Cor poration …
Maintaining that there was no justification for harnessing water sources from far-off places like Himachal Pradesh to cater to the needs of the national capital, prominent social activists, environmentalists and intellectuals of Delhi have urged Chief Minister Sheila Dixit to withdraw from the Renuka Dam project. In an open letter …
Delhi is an old town, which has gradually grown into a populous city. It is one of the important business centers of India and thickly populated as well. Since the last decade, drinking water problem has created havoc in the city. In this study, we collected 32 drinking water samples …
Long-term pumping tests were carried out on Kasai river bed in connection with augmentation of existing water supply of Kharagpur Municipal town in the district of Midnapore (West), West Bengal to cater to the need of growing population as well as industrial units.
In the Era of Globalization, Urbanization and Industrialization there is a major task of Public utility to fulfill the requirement of the people quatitavely and qualititatively in developing countries like India. In India till now performance assessment and efficiency evaluation of public utility (water supply and sanitation utility) by use …
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, 2010.
