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 State Government has made a plan to implement a Mega Flow Water Scheme at a cost of Rs2,600 crore through which 70 litre of safe water per head would be provided to all households in the State. Rural Development Minister Badrinarayan Patra said this in the Assembly on Tuesday …
Peru is in a time when it needs a water miracle. Thank goodness we have engineers like those at UTEC, and a government that is working to improve water sanitation. From 2011 to 2014, water and sanitation coverage in rural areas increased 25% according to the Minister of Housing, Construction …
Meeting in Jericho to inform of plans to deliver water services Government officials from the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS), the North West provincial Department of Local Government and Human Settlement, as well as Jericho Water and Sanitation Forum will this morning address Jericho residents in Madibeng. The aim …
ABU DHABI // Residents of a Bosnian village are to benefit from a US$186,000 (Dh683,000) clean water project launched by the Emirates Red Crescent. About 1,000 families in the village of Travnik will have access to safe water as part of the UAE Suqia Initiative, state news agency Wam said. …
The Punjab government will spend up to Rs 70 billion to provide clean drinking water for the next three years which includes up to Rs 11 billion for the financial year 2015-16, official sources revealed this on Thursday. The clean water project is already launched in the four districts of …
The Assam government has initiated the process of undertaking seven large multi-village schemes with a total outlay of Rs 1474 crore for providing drinking water to rural areas with World Bank support. It will also construct 1,100 piped water supply schemes at an earmarked outlay of Rs 550 crore for …
The National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP), which is supplementing the efforts of the State Governments by providing technical and financial assistance, is looking at rural drinking water from a holistic viewpoint. The Ministry has shifted its focus from hand pumps to piped water supply systems with the aim of …
Chief Minister N Rangasamy today laid foundation of Rs 2.55 crore drinking water supply scheme in Thondamanatham village in Oussudu reserved constituency marking the initiatives of the government to relieve the villagers of acute water supply problem. Speaking on the occasion the Chief Minister said that his government was keen …
CHANDIGARH: With both Punjab and Haryana given their consent to bring 40 million gallon daily (MGD) additional water from Kajauli to Chandigarh, the MC has finally prepared a detailed agenda item to submit Rs 98 crore to Punjab government as it will bring pipeline from Kajauli to Jandpur village near …
This report is an outcome of the field study conducted to assess the status of rural water supply schemes in Maharashtra. The Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation (MDWS), Government of India assigned the task to conduct a third party evaluation to Tata Institute of Social Sciences. The objectives of …
Enthused by the completion of a project worth Rs 1,280 crore six months before schedule, the World Bank has sanctioned another Rs 2,200 crore rural water supply and sanitation project for Punjab. Water Supply and Sanitation Minister Surjit Singh Rakhra said that this project would give impetus to the ongoing …
Tribal villages of Sukinda block and Badachana block in Jajpur district are facing acute water scarcity since the month of April. Since temperature is going up, the problem will be compounded. The villages like Dubikhala, Mangalpur, Ambadula, Lembu , Rankia, Bandhaga, Bamanagar, Pimpudia, Kharadi, Kaliapani and Chingudiapal, etc with a …
Village pipe water supply project remains inoperative for years in Nilphamari district. Sources said, such areas where arsenic contamination in the water is very high and where water is not available within 26 feet of the surface, in those localities, the project was undertaken throughout the country. In Nilphamari district …
The present paper attempts to evaluate the economic conditions of the farm households of Yavatmal district of Vidarbha region. The district has reported an increasing number of suicides during the period of Jan. to Dec. 2011.This is in a striking contrast with other districts of Vidarbha in which suicide rates …
Dodoma — THE government, through the Water Sector Development Programme, is implementing several water projects in 10 villages in all district councils in the country. The Deputy Water Minister, Mr Amos Makala, told the National Assembly here that implementation of the programme was being carried out in stages one and …
The World Bank today signed a $248-million loan agreement for the Punjab Rural Water and Sanitation Sector Improvement Project to help the state improve its delivery of water and sanitation services in rural areas. According to a World Bank statement, the project aims at providing a minimum of 10 hours …
THE number of people who have access to clean and safe water close to their homes in Rufiji district, Coast region, increased to 74.6 per cent last year from 51.9 per cent in 2005, it has been learnt. According to District Commissioner Nurdin Babu, the district has a total population …
Aggrieved villagers from the fluoride-affected and upland areas of the district staged a demonstration with empty drinking water containers made of clay here on Monday in an effort to draw the government’s attention towards their drinking water woes. Scores of villagers mainly comprising women from different parts of the district …
In 2050 there will be enough water to help produce the food needed to feed a global population expected to top nine billion, but overconsumption, degradation and the impact of climate change will reduce water supplies in many regions, especially developing countries, FAO and the World Water Council (WWC) have …
Luanda — The Water for All Project that started in 2007 is intended to secure drinking water to 80 percent of the country?s rural population. This was said Wednesday in Luanda by the secretary of State for Water, Luís Filipe da Silva. The official was speaking at the opening of …
