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 …
'There was no Monitoring Cell to supervise expenditure incurred by Panchayat Raj bodies' The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) found serious lapses in the implementation of water quality component of National Rural Drinking Water Programme in the Sate. The CAG, in a report on Local Bodies for the …
In five years, the Karnataka government spent Rs 93.54 crore to check the quality of water under the National Rural Drinking Water programme. But at the end, the scheme failed with no progress on works, lack of maintenance, planning and seepages. The net result is that a large chunk of …
ALLAHABAD: The district authorities have dispatched over 1,000 field testing kits and study materials to 20 blocks to check water quality in 1,425 villages. The district aims to check areas where ground water contains arsenic or fluoride substances. District Development Officer (DDO) RC Pandey told TOI "after dispatching water field …
Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister H K Patil has said that the government would release Rs 38 crore to solve the drinking water problem in rural areas. He was addressing a press conference here on Sunday. “The water shortage problem is severe in villages. The deputy commissioners have been …
Hazaribagh town will plunge into an acute water crisis if monsoon does not arrive on time. As the situation stands now, the residents will get supply till the end of May with the water level at Charwa dam, the primary source of drinking water for this parched township, dipping to …
This case study narrates the successful initiatives taken by Mr. Rakesh Bhagat, Mukhiya through the Village Water and Sanitation Committee (VWSC) in Bero Panchayat (Bero Block) of Ranchi district of Jharkhand in the context of revival of a dysfunctional piped water supply scheme. According to the policy guidelines of the …
Authorities Deploy 136 Additional Tankers Pune: Shortage of drinking water has intensified in parts of Western Maharashtra with 1,026 villages in the four districts now dependent on tankers to meet their daily requirement of drinking water. The list of parched villages is only getting longer with the divisional commissioner’s office …
Form strategy to reduce water use, Montek Singh Ahluwalia tells Chief Minister The Annual Plan for 2013-14 for Punjab has been finalised at Rs 16,125 crore, a jump of 15 per cent over last year. The Plan size was finalised at a meeting between the Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Montek …
In March 2011, the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation as part of its mandate to provide technical assistance to states released the Operation and Maintenance Manual to help states to operate, maintain drinking water supply scheme. This updated Operation and Maintenance Manual provides further technical and managerial information on …
The government of Karnataka has failed to achieve the target of providing safe drinking water to 17.35 per cent of the state’s rural habitations during 2012-13 and spent only 46 per cent of Rs 800.38 crore allocated under the National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP) till January 31, two months …
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse said today that the government has correctly understood the needs of the people in rural areas and promised to provide safe drinking water for the rural communities in the country. He said the government has given priority to improve the quality of water and sanitation …
Water is the harbinger and sustainer of all life on the planet especially the humankind. With the increasing demand by the growing population and improvement in economic status, the demands on the available resources are increasing and we have to constantly strive towards stretching the same water to satisfy larger …
BHOPAL: The Public Health Engineering Department has completed 621 drinking water schemes sanctioned under Bundelkhand package so far at a cost of Rs 21.29 crore. Total 1287 drinking water schemes costing about Rs 100 crore were sanctioned to 6 districts under Bundelkhand package, including Sagar, Chhatarpur, Panna, Tikamgarh, Damoh and …
PANJIM: Thirty seven villages are not getting potable water (through the public water system) even after 50 years of self-rule, Public Works Development Minister Ramakrishna Sudin Dhavalikar told the Goa Legislative Assembly Tuesday. In the same breath, he reiterated his government’s stance that it would give 24 hours a day …
The political administration of Mohmand Agency has completed a safe drinking water scheme to benefit thousands of local communities of the area to get access to water at their doorstep. FATA Secretariat sources stated that the inhabitants of the village had been facing acute shortage of clean drinking water. At …
PUNE: About 17.46 lakh rural population of Pune division is facing severe water scarcity and most of them are dependent on tankers for drinking water supply, said a senior officer from the divisional commissionerate. The revised report on water scarcity in villages and hamlets stated that 865 villages and 3,823 …
Anantapur: The groundwater table has plummeted alarmingly in Anantapur district due to scanty rainfall and excess extraction of water. The government has banned the drilling of new borewells in 271 villages keeping in view the poor groundwater levels. The groundwater department has found that 50 per cent of existing borewells …
In what could be a slight setback to the government's programme to bring safe and adequate drinking water to all rural households, only around 67 per cent of the targets have been met under the National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP) in 2012-13, as against the over 90 per cent …
PUNE: The number of villages and hamlets in the state facing water and fodder scarcity has increased by 850 after the first week of February. In the first week of February, 5,294 villages and hamlets were facing severe water scarcity. The number has now increased to 6,153. The number of …
With the increased contamination of drinking water affecting the health of rural people, the government has initiated steps to test the quality of water at all the villages. Though the task was gigantic to check quality of water with limited number of employees from various departments concerned, the government is …
