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 …
MUMBAI: Five-star hotels, which had to bear the brunt of the water cuts this year, have drastically cut down consumption by adopting a systematic approach to water conservation. Luxury and business hotels have large water requirements for landscaping and swimming pools, but recent data obatined under a recent Right to …
NEW DELHI: Even as the Uttar Pradesh Irrigation Department has closed down the Upper Ganga Canal for annual maintenance, the Delhi Jal Board has announced that the city will continue to get its share of Ganga water. A senior Delhi Jal Board official said on Tuesday that the canal maintenance …
The Delhi high court sought a report from the DJB on a PIL alleging that the water supply has been `zero' in several parts of east Delhi for the last few months : The Delhi high court on Wednesday sought a report from the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) on a …
Perennial water scarcity has been one of the worst kept secrets of many of Mumbai's toniest areas. Parts of South Mumbai, including Cuffe Parade and Nariman Point, depend on tankers for their daily quota. Likewise, several of the city's expensive localities in the western suburbs make do with just a …
Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar Delhi Government sat over the issue of Ganga water supply in the area NEW DELHI: A dispute over supply of Ganga water to Jasola Vihar DDA flats and Shaheen Bagh in the Okhla constituency turned out to be one of the major reasons for the defeat of …
Pune In its hurry to get on with the Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS), the Pune Municipal Corporation seems to have given a go-by to accessing funds under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) to overcome its water woes. In the last five years, no Central funding has …
NEW DELHI: Incessant rain over the past two days that almost brought the Capital to a halt has given the Delhi Jal Board reason to cheer. The increased amount of water flowing into the Yamuna hopefully means no shortfall of water supply for the city over the next few weeks.
Construction of water treatment plant at Velliyankadu reviewed The Corporation has initiated the process of constructing an intake well at Rs.5.26 crore Supply lines will be laid over a stretch of 23.4 km COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore Corporation said on Tuesday that the implementation of the Rs.113-crore Pilloor Phase II Drinking …
The article focuses on endogenous institutional factors in the water sector and the challenges and opportunities to an alternative integrated management approach in Vietnam, particularly in the context of its political legacy, current development goal, and Doi Moi reforms, using Saigon River as a case study. It investigates three institutional …
The current issue of the UGEC Viewpoints was conceptualized at the end of the 7th Open Meeting of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change which was held in Bonn, Germany between April 26-30. The conference was deemed a great success with nearly 1,000 participants including researchers, NGOs, …
Aug. 27: The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply & Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB;) has decided to hike the price of the water supplied through tankers. The Water Board has constituted a committee to examine the rise in expenditure involved in water supply due to the rise in diesel prices and suggest the …
Mumbai The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will soon install electronic water meters for five lakh water consumers across the city to prevent wastage of water. The civic body hopes that metered water connections, to be installed at a cost of Rs 450 crore, will lead to accuracy in billing and …
The public-private partnership model has emerged as the favoured model of project execution in India, especially in infrastructure, health and education. This article traces the theoretical underpinnings of PPP under a neoliberal, marketdriven and growth-oriented state. It describes the economic imperatives for public and private resource management and the case …
Cities in India are moving towards commercially viable models of urban water and sanitation delivery to fill the widening gap between demand and supply. Cost recovery through upfront beneficiary contributions is increasingly becoming a key consideration in the provision of piped water and sewerage. This paper examines the Greater Bangalore …
Mumbai municipality to induce rains; activists call it a sham torrential rains pounded Mumbai in the last week of June, but failed to help the city tide over the severe water shortage. The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai is now making frantic efforts to ease the crisis. On July 15, …
