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 …
Despite the fact that the financial services sector in many countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, are still characterized by manifold constraints and limitations, the future potential of local financial markets for financing rural water is very significant. The potential for increased involvement of local financial markets in the pro-poor water …
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 …
A state department has raised the red flag on finalising a Hyderabad-based company for a Rs 253 crore water supply project as it is now under the scanner of the income tax (IT) and vigilance for having bagged rural electrification contracts allegedly at the behest of former chief minister Madhu …
309 petitions received at mass contact programme at Padukkappathu Aid implements: Collector G. Prakash handing over a power-tiller to a farmer at Padukkapathu in Tuticorin district on Wednesday. Tuticorin: All requirements of the people will be fulfilled, Collector G. Prakash has said here on Wednesday at the mass contact programme …
ONGOLE, Feb. 14: Scarcity of water problem has started in most areas of Prakasam district before the onset of summer. The district rural water supply (RWS) authorities are gearing up to tackle the situation by initiating a summer action plan. There are 196 recognised water ponds (Sagar canal), 124 non-recognised …
The revised National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP) Guidelines 2009-2012 issued by Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission, Department of Drinking Water Supply has shift the focus from
These villages co-own the drinking water schemes with IPH dept, decide tariff, bylaws The villages that once struggled to get quality drinking water and always looked towards the government
RAJAHMUNDRY, Jan. 31: The supply of potable water during summer season was given top priority in East Godavari district. The rural water supply (RWS) authorities noticed shortage of the drinking water in as many as 40 per cent of the villages out of the total 1,113 across the district. To …
Thirty-something Gulab Kunju remembers the days when she would drink milk to quench thirst because drinking water was scarce. Her village Dhaurada had three hand pumps to meet the needs of more than 120 families settled in four hamlets. Each day she would make several trips to the nearest hand …
The Sardar Sarovar Dam reached a height of 121.92 m in 2006 and at this height the dam has enough water to generate most of the promised benefits - irrigation, drinking water, and electricity. However, currently only 30% of the targeted villages receive regular water supplies, less than 20% of …
BHUBANESWAR: The Assembly Standing Committee on the Rural Development Department today emphasised on early completion of the rural pipe water supply projects and use of quality pipes. The Rural Water Supply and Sanitation (RWSS) has proposed to complete 2,500 pipe water projects at an estimated cost of Rs 850 crore …
Even as the recent financial crisis has led to a questioning of the ideological regimes that have been dominant since the 1990s in India, the processes that have already been set in motion
SHILLONG, Jan 10: About five villages under the Mawthadraishan Block in West Khasi Hills district have been struggling for a drop of drinking water for over 13 years. The villages
The Maoists have been at the helm of the movement in Lalgarh right from its inception. Even as they organised the resistance to state repression, they put in place, at a rudimentary level, an alternative programme of development based on the people
Anantapur, Jan. 7: The Rural Water Supply (RWS) scheme, intended to provide safe drinking water to people in rural areas, has been suffering from inadequate funds and poor maintenance wo-rks in the district. A total of 1,018 out of total 3,339 habitations are getting potable water under the RWS scheme. …
Water pipeline laid to villages in Gadimoga and Bhairavapalem MDR will help villagers to transport fish and other perishables Kakinada: The Rural Water Supply (RWS) scheme and Main District Road (MDR) at Gadimoga which were inaugurated by the Chief Minister K. Rosaiah on Wednesday, marked a significant progress in the …
Rajahmundry: Minister for Rural Water Supply P. Viswaroop and Panchayat Raj Minister Botcha Satyanarayana inaugurated a Rs.22-crore drinking water scheme in Bommuru which supplies water to 29 villages in the panchayat. Speaking on this occasion, Mr. Viswaroop said that his ministry was going to sanction Rs.20 crores for another 39 …
The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has sanctioned Rs 76.27 crore against the total project cost of Rs 85.71 crore for Sikkim for implementation of infrastructure projects under RIDF - XV. The projects sanctioned relate to Rural Education Institutions (26 nos), Rural Drinking Water Schemes (8 nos) …
