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 …
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $23.5 million grant from the Strategic Climate Fund for a project that will ensure water supply to about 45,000 households. The project is one of five components of Nepal’s Strategic Program for Climate Resilience. “This is the first large-scale intervention by ADB …
Battling odds for a bucket of drinking water - that too muddy river water - is a part of the daily grind of Chandrabhan and other villagers of Kutoli village in Datia district of Madhya Pradesh. But the story doesn't end with Kutoli. More than 2,000 villages of Madhya Pradesh …
BHUBANESWAR: After winning the urban polls in the state with a handsome margin, BJD seems to be shifting its focus to the rural areas. In a meeting chaired by chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday, it was decided that the government would soon take initiates to provide piped drinking water …
The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board’s scheme to regularise illegal water connections has failed miserably with not a single application being submitted. Though thousands called up the Board office and many others came in person to enquire about the regularisation offer, which concluded a couple of days ago, …
The Finland government has agreed to provide a grant assistance of Rs 1.85 billion to the government for the implementation of Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project in Western Nepal (RWSSP WNII). The agreement to this effect was signed between Joint Secretary at the Ministry of Finance Madhu Kumar Marasini …
Clean drinking water is out of reach for 4.64 crore people in rural areas in the country, says a report tabled by the Union water resources ministry in Parliament last week. In Rajasthan, 25,500 habitations or 1.09 crore people get water with chemical or bacterial contamination. Assam comes next with …
The Union Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation has stressed the need for enhancing drinking water supply in the rural areas of Jammu and Kashmir, besides introducing the piped water supply schemes (PWSS) in these areas. The observations were made during a meeting at the Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi …
Ministry of Drinking Water & Sanitation has intimated that as per the information entered by the States on the online Integrated Management Information System (IMIS) of the Ministry, out of a total of about 16,90,870 rural habitations in the country, there are about 84,294 habitations which are quality affected i.e …
The Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) has revealed that 90 percent of the rural population lack access to safe drinking water. PCRWR officials said that only 15 percent to 18 percent of the groundwater water samples taken were safe for drinking both in urban and rural areas …
DHAKA : The World Bank is supporting the Bangladesh government to increase provision of safe water and hygienic sanitation facilities through the Bangladesh Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project (BRWSSP), reports UNB. The project aims to increase the supply of safe water by constructing rural piped water supply schemes as …
The government in association with the World Bank (WB) will implement a project soon to ensure safe water supply in 383 unions across the country. Under the US $92.6million Bangladesh Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project (BRWSSP) and the Department of Public Health Engineering (DPHE) has already started preparatory work …
The Delhi Jal Board in a meeting held today approved the construction of a 6-million litres capacity underground reservoir (UGR) and a booster pumping station (BPS) with peripheral water mains at Mahipalpur Village and a few other projects. The board also approved a 12.4-million litres capacity UGR and BPS at …
Bombay high court is slated to hear on Friday will hear a public interest litigation for direction to the State government to complete its scheme to supply water through pipelines to 69 villages in Vasai and Virar municipal areas. A division bench of Justice Dhananjay Chandrachud and Justice Suresh Gupte …
The displeasure of the World Bank over the constant changing of heads for the Kerala Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project, better known as the Jalanidhi, seems well-grounded. Frequent replacement of the heads of the Jalanidhi project by the state government has badly hit the overall performance of the project …
Irked By Frequent Change Of Project Heads The World Bank has expressed unhappiness about the frequent replacement of project heads of the Kerala Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project, better known as the Jalanidhi Project, which is receiving financial assistance from the bank. According to top sources in the state …
Uttar Pradesh has fared badly in utilising the financial assistance received under the Bundelkhand Package managing to spend only 43.89 per cent of the money allocated to it as Additional Central Assistance (ACA) by the Planning Commission. Of the Rs 1,695.76 crore allocated to it as ACA for seven districts …
In 2009, the Accelerated Rural Water Supply Programme was modified as the National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP) with major emphasis on ensuring sustainability of water availability in terms of potability, adequacy, convenience, affordability and equity, on a sustainable basis, while also adopting decentralized approach involving PRIs and community organizations. …
Around 90 percent of the population in rural areas of the country lacks access to safe drinking water, as with decrease in quantity, the quality of water is also deteriorating due to municipal, industrial and agriculture wastes. According to a report of Pakistan Council for Research in Water Resources (PCRWR), …
Faced with protests from residents of the Thane district, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has finally agreed to increase their water supply. Following complaints from the locals, Mayor Sunil Prabhu said, “We have assured them that the pipeline supplying water to their villages will soon be enlarged to ensure a rise …
The Pimpri Chinch wad Municipal Corporation has approved a proposal to release Rs 5 crore for installing water filtration units in villages along the banks of the Bhima river. The decision was taken at the general body meeting presided by mayor Mohini Lande. Over 125 villages along the banks of …
