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 …
Bhubaneswar: The state government on Thursday announced a Rs 900-crore plan for strengthening drinking water system in rural areas. "While Rs 350 crore from the district mineral foundation would be spent in eight districts, Rs 553 crore (as recommended by 4th state finance commission) would be utilized for the purpose …
Gujarat Government on Wednesday declared 81 more villages as 'scarcity-affected' owing to acute water shortage there, an official press release said. With this latest addition, the total number of scarcity-affected villages in Gujarat has reached 1,347. The decision to put these 81 villages of Porbandar district in 'affected' category was …
Bhubaneswar: Chief minister Naveen Patnaik last week announced that he would ensure piped water supply (PWS) reached all villages in a year. However, progress of the government's PWS scheme is moving at a snail's pace, a latest CAG report said. The CAG report on state finances for the year ending …
MORE than 20% of people living in rural areas do not have access to sources of clean water. The director of rural water supply and sanitation, Leopold Niipare, made this revelation while addressing a two-day stakeholders' consultative workshop convened last week at Mariental to review the Community Based Management (CBM) …
Many developing countries are about to prepare their new strategies on how to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for universal and equitable access to water and sanitation by 2030.These new roadmaps need to put a focus on rural growth centers and small towns where the majority of those without …
With 40 per cent of the country under the impact of consecutive failed monsoons, water rationing could become a norm in many parts of the country in the coming summer, they warned. According to a recent Central Water Commission report, water levels in the Maharashtra reservoirs are 58 per cent …
While the finance minister took care to express the commitment of his government to poor and vulnerable people while presenting the Union Budget for 2016–17, this stated commitment has not been backed by adequate increases in allocations to areas of critical interest to the poor. It is likely that resource …
Another Rs. 50 crore to be released by the end of March Municipal Administration and Minority Affairs Minister Qamarul Islam has said that the government is fully prepared to tackle drinking water shortage in urban and rural areas during summer till the onset of monsoon in the State. Briefing presspersons …
Gaya: Groundwater samples collected from three different places falling under Gaya Municipal Corporation area were sent to Quality Testing Laboratory of the Public Health Engineering Department (PHED). The test results show very high level of turbidity (presence of muddy content), iron and bacterial contamination rendering the water unfit for human …
Open defecation is practised by over 600 million people in India and there is a strong political drive to eliminate this through the provision of on-site sanitation in rural areas. However, there are concerns that the subsequent leaching of excreta from subsurface storage could be adversely impacting underlying groundwater resources …
A team of officials attached to the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest, Regional Office, Bengaluru, visited Hassan and Sakleshpur to inspect the works on the proposed Yettinahole project, on Monday. During a meeting with locals in Aranya Bhavan, in Hassan, environmentalists expressed their opposition to the project. Environmentalists asked …
Ethiopia’s rural localities without access to the power grid are to get potable water facilities powered by renewable energy sources, APA learns here Monday. According to Ethiopia’s Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Electricity, the country is massively engaged in the installation of wind and solar powered water pumps in remote …
According to locals, the success of the scheme depends on power supply, which in the region is erratic, besides maintenance of the machinery. Since she learnt to walk, Vinita Parmar’s first job was to tag along with her mother and siblings a couple of kilometres to fetch water. She grew …
Arusha — A Sh146 million water project, sponsored by the national farmers' network, Mviwata, and a non-governmental organisation called Trias, was launched at Engraruka Village in Monduli District at the weekend. Speaking after the inauguration, district commissioner Francis Miti said the project would now assure residents of the remote village …
Over 3.6 crore people living in more than 63,000 rural habitations are exposed to health hazards due to drinking water quality problems like excess arsenic, fluoride, iron, salinity or nitrate. Of this, 1,318 rural habitations are arsenic-affected, Minister of State for Drinking Water Ram Kripal Yadav told the Upper House …
MUMBAI: Nearly 55% of Maharashtra's population lives in its rural belt compared to 45% in its urban areas. Yet its cities and metros get almost five times more drinking water as its villages from the state's dams, notified rivers and select lakes. The data which reveals the stark rural-urban divide …
Chief minister Vasundhara Raje, during her meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday, pushed hard for special assistance from the Centre to deal with the severe drinking water crisis in the state. Talking about the overall development of the state and the drinking water crisis, Raje requested for a …
Denmark-based Grundfos, one of the largest pump manufacturers in the world, will launch an intelligent water dispensing system in India that accepts "WaterCard" like an ATM and converts raw water into potable for consumers. The company will launch AQpure and AQtap through which consumers can pay for the water via …
The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has sanctioned Rs.543.63 crore assistance for mega drinking water supply project in fluoride-contaminated blocks of Odisha’s Nuapada district. The project envisaged at supplying of 100 litres per capita per day (lpcd) of drinking water to 1.20 lakh families in the fluoride-affected …
The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) on Wednesday, September 9 committed a grant of US $22-million to finance water and sanitation facilities in the West Kordofan State of Sudan and a country-wide Institutional Capacity Development Program. More than 130,000 people (69,000 women) in the rural areas of West Kordofan State …
