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 …
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 …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Safe drinking water to villages, 21/12/2015. Ministry maintains data regarding coverage of habitations with drinking water supply in rural areas of the country in terms of habitations and not in terms of villages.As reported by States / UTs into the online Integrated Management Information …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Supply of piped drinking water in rural areas, 07/12/2015. Ministry of Drinking Water & Sanitation through National Rural Drinking Water Programme supplements the efforts of States to provide drinking water to rural population by providing technical & financial assistance. The Ministry monitors the coverage …
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 …
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 …
