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 …
Access to safe water is necessary for lives and livelihoods. In India, a mid-term assessment reveals that the country has already met its MDG (Millennium Development Goal) in terms of expanding access to water infrastructure although in the parallel subsector of sanitation progress is falling far short of the mark. …
Access to safe water is necessary for lives and livelihoods. In India, a mid-term assessment reveals that the country has already met its MDG (Millennium Development Goal) in terms of expanding access to water infrastructure although in the parallel subsector of sanitation progress is falling far short of the mark. …
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: About 1.80-lakh rural habitations are afflicted by poor water quality leading to serious health problems such as cancer and fluorosis that damages bones, teeth and muscles. Arsenic contamination has been reported in nine States, fluoride problem in 18 States, salinity in 17 States, iron contamination in …
SAMBALPUR: IT was yet another hot and sultry day for the denizens of Sambalpur with the district recording 44.5 degree Celsius today. With the temperatures hovering above 40 degrees in the past some days and the April sun sucking up the water levels, people fear acute water crisis. While the …
Vijayawada, April 25: The minister for rural water supply, Mr Pinepi Viswarup, said the government sanctioned Rs 300 crore to mitigate drinking water problem in the state during summer and has been making tireless efforts to resolve the drinking water problem in the rural areas. The minister visited Hanuman Junction …
SYED ASIM ALI The rural India has now started getting benefits from the RTI as residents of Keolari village in Katni district succeeded in protecting their fundamental human Right to Water using RTI as a tool. While the Supreme Court has on more than one occasion declared that the Right …
Aizawl, April 19: The Union ministry of rural development has released grant-in-aid worth Rs 495.93 lakh to Mizoram for safe drinking water in the State
LUCKNOW: Next time you are driving through Bundelkhand or its Mahoba district in particular and luckily manage to spot a pond which also has water in it, think twice before you fill up your water containers for the rest of the journey. For, it may land you in lock-up as …
Newsline found another possible cause: dirt. Kharak Raveda village has no sewage network, its streets are full of cowdung, sewage and puddles; illegal supply lines are drawn from tubewells Kharak Raveda, a little known village in Chattarpur on the outskirts of Delhi, was in for a shock when seven-year-old Ashiq …
Imphal/AGARTALA, April 13: The Union Ministry of Rural Development has released grant-in-aid for various Northeastern States, including Sikkim, to take up rural water schemes. Officials said Rs 20 crore has been sanctioned to the Assam Government towards additional funds under the Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission (NRDWP) during 2009-10 …
SAMBALPUR: Women walking with pitchers on their heads and some struggling at tube-wells to fill up their vessels with water is a common sight in Sambalpur villages these days. With Sambalpur boiling at around 45.6 degree Celsius, the rural pockets of the district are experiencing severe water crisis. Having faced …
Imphal: The Union Ministry of Rural Development has released grant-in-aid for various Northeastern states, including Sikkim, to take up rural water schemes. Officials said Rs 20 crore has been sanctioned to the Assam Government towards additional funds under the Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission (NRDWP) during 2009-10 to provide …
THENI: A total of 18 wells sunk on Mullaperiyar river bed by private people for irrigation between Arapadi Thevanpatti and Vaigai dam were closed to prevent illegal tapping of water from the river and to streamline drinking water supply to rural and urban areas in the district, said Collector P. …
Nuh (Mewat): One can reach Barota, a village located on the Gurgaon-Alwar road in Nuh district, in a little over half an hour from Gurgaon, the millennium city which boasts of world-class facilities. However, clean drinking has failed to reach the village till date. For reasons best known to the …
CHENNAI: The second Cauvery Combined Drinking Water Scheme will be implemented at a cost of Rs.47.74 crore and will benefit Kankeyam town panchayat (now elevated as municipality), Vellakoil Municipality and 174 rural habitations, Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin said on Monday. Responding to Congress member Vidiyal S. Sekar, Mr. Stalin …
The work for construction of a cross regulator on Malukpura canal which started at Kabarwala village in Abohar two days ago has now taken a political turn. According to Congress MLA Sunil Jakhar, this is being done to divert more water to the Lambi constituency, creating more water shortage for …
Action plan for provision of safe drinking water in rural areas for 2010-11 is yet to be prepared due to delay by the National Key Resource Centres, identified for capacity building of the different stakeholders related to provision of potable water at State levels. The Department of Drinking Water Supply …
Water scarce villages of Hamirpur district have set an example by reviving the traditional water sources to meet their requirements this summer. This initiative of self-dependence by 229 gram panchayats has been turned into a success story under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Generation Scheme (MGNREGA), that too in …
