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 …
CHENNAI: Residents of various parts of Triplicane have complained that they have been receiving sewage mixed drinking water for over two weeks now. Households on several streets such as Easwaradas Street, T.P.Koil Street, Car Street, Singarachari Street and South Tank Square Street said that the problem has become severe in …
Visakhapatnam, March 3: The city has gone dry with groundwater levels dropping to an all-time low and the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation slapping a ration on domestic supply. Thousands of apartment complexes, which are banking on tankers supplied by the corporation and private agencies till now, will have to look …
Corpn. providing water in lorries to residential areas COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore Corporation will take stringent action against drivers of lorries if they sold in black the drinking water being supplied in these vehicles to residents by the civic body. Sounding this warning at the Corporation Council meeting on Tuesday, Commissioner …
Visakhapatnam, March 2: The Greater Visakha Municipal Corporation (GVMC) has prepared a contingency plan to meet the shortage of drinking water in the city, said deputy mayor K. Dorabbai. Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, Dorabbai said that an action plan has been prepared with Rs 13.9 crore of …
The Mexico Office of the State Engineer (NMOSE) is charged with administering the state's water resources. The State Engineer has power over the supervision, measurement, appropriation and distribution of all surface and groundwater in New Mexico.
This latest report by the WHO/UNICEF presents current status and trends in 209 countries towards reaching the drinking water & sanitation MDG target, along with an assessment as to what these trends reveal. This report by the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation (JMP) confirms that advances …
Residential welfare associations are a window of opportunity to consolidate loose networks of local associations engaged in activities around urban services. They have changed the dynamics of urban politics. This article attempts to trace how, while working in an increasingly globalised and polarised city like Bangalore, these groups demand a …
Builders Face Fine If Society With Occupation Certificate Pays More For Water Sharad Vyas | TNN Mumbai: New water rules proposed by the BMC hydraulic department would make it mandatory for builders who have received an Occupation Certificate (OC) to ensure that the residents stop paying the higher rate for …
NEW DELHI: The Delhi Jal Board is gearing up to post information related to water supply or its non-availability on a daily basis on its website. The decision follows an order from the Central Information Commission to the Jal Board. According to Jal Board officials, the CIC has asked the …
S Lalitha , Bangalore, Feb 19, DH News Service: Alarmed by the poor response from house-owners in the face of the fast-approaching deadline to instal rainwater harvesting (RWH) structures, the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) has warned house-owners either to opt for RWH before May 27 or face …
Deputy Commissioner N Prabhakar has asked the City Municipality to prepare a Rs 60-lakh action plan to address drinking water shortage in the City. The DC a surprise visit to the City Municipality on Tuesday following complaints by some councillors alleging that grievances put forth by them have not been …
Mumbai The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation will hire private water tankers this summer to transport water to areas where water pressure is low in pipelines. The civic body has also proposed to buy ten tankers having a capacity of 10,000 litres each. Due to the poor rainfall in the last season …
ANANTAPUR, Feb. 14: There will be severe drinking water problem in the Anantapur city in the ensuing summer as water levels in the summer storage tanks and borewells have reduced to dead storage level. The city requires drinking water of 20 million litres per day of which the summer storage …
R Haldorai | ENS The government had asked the TWAD Board to take special care of water supply in Coimbatore, advising that there would not be complaints from the residents against erratic water supply/much reduction in quantity UNLIKE the previous years there will be no severe re strictions on water …
This note proposes a template for assessing the governance of urban water supply and sanitation (WSS) service providers and its impact of the quality of service and performance of operations. The template can be used for decentralized autonomous public corporations responsible for providing the WSS service to customers as well …
A snag in a region's water supply system led to civil unrest in 13 municipalities impacting the lives of 17 million people. The author finds out how Maharashtra Jeevan Pradhikaran resolved the crisis and won the be inspired award in the 'Innovation in water, wastewater and stormwater networks' category.
The key purpose of this document is to provide an assessment of impacts of Renuka dam from the point of view of those to be affected and analyze the issues in the frame-work of community rights, resource ownership, use and distribution. The role of the state and its policies in …
People living in and around Aurangabad were getting round the clock water supply through underground pipelines at a time when most cities in medieval India relied directly on wells, ponds and rivers. These conduits dating back to the 17th and 18th centuries transported water over long distances through gravitational pull …
