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 …
Nearly half of the city and three surrounding municipalities will have to go without water on Wednesday. The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB;) sprang a nasty surprise on citizens by announcing this decision at the eleventh hour giving no time for people to store water. Most people …
Climate change will affect the health of urban populations. It represents a range of environmental hazards and will affect populations where the current burden of climate-sensitive disease is high
Urbanization is occurring at an unprecedented rate, particularly in developing countries, with high migration of population from rural to urban areas. As a consequence of urbanization and associated environmental impacts, the issue of providing water to growing urban population is becoming critical. Water management in the context of urban area …
During disaster, management of essential services is a daunting task. Water supply systems (WSS) are susceptible to natural disasters like earthquakes, floods and famine and also face threat from man-made disasters. Since water is the basic need of living being, restoring it is a major challenge to water engineers in …
For sustaining of a WSS over its design period, operation and maintenance cost should be fully recovered from the users. Therefore, willingness to pay and affordability survey of households in small and medium towns is a prerequisite for selection of proper scheme, its implementation and financial sustainability. This paper suggests …
In this paper, the economic impact of having a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) for medium sized towns (Sivas and Fethiye) in Turkey with the objective of environmental pollution prevention is assessed by taking investment and operation costs, required tariff levels, affordability and willingness to pay of the users into account.
Performance improvement planning helps service providers in bringing about incremental improvements in services by applying the principles of commercial orientation and financial viability. This overview paper discusses the context for performance improvement plans in India, and the key elements and objectives that such strategies should constitute.
30 With the rising temperatures marking the arrival of summers, the city is all set to sizzle in the scorching heat. As the sun shines in all its fury, water becomes the elixir of life. The demand increases for both domestic and irrigation purposes. Along comes a host of problems …
come May, water may no longer be free for Kolkata residents. The city has decided to levy a water tax. "The idea is to recover the operation and maintenance costs of supplying water,' says B K Maity, chief engineer at Kolkata Municipal Corporation's (kmc) water supplies department. The tax is …
THE taps are beginning to run dry in the Capital, although summer's scarcely begun. It's symbolic of a deep-seated problem in the water sector. The plain fact is that India needs a lot more water infrastructure. As the finance minister P Chidambaram noted in his Budget speech last month, "massive …
The monsoon may be a few months away, but residents of the financial capital would do well to start praying for abundant rains this year. For, in a first in the city's water supply history, the water level in the Bhatsa dam
Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority has not properly utilised its water supply scheme which was laid to supply potable Narmada water to 1.8 lakh units in western of Ahmedabad, says the CAG report. The water treatment plant installed had the capacity to treat 275 Million litres per day (MLD) against which …
After a short-lived reprieve, Delhi is back to facing a shortage of water. The production of water at two water treatment plants in the city has been reduced as neighbouring Haryana has again withheld Delhi's share of the Yamuna waters. The reduction in supply meant for the city has led …
For the third day in a row Gurgaon continued to reel under an unprecedented water crisis caused by the discontinuation in the supply of water following a breach in the Gurgaon canal. The breach in the canal that caters to seventy per cent of the city's water needs has plunged …
For parched Delhiites, the budget this time promises a more comfortable year, even if the summer months may not be its target. With outlay of Rs 1,507 crore the government hopes to improve water supply and sanitation in the city. However, several of the schemes and plans mentioned in the …
First Mayor Sanjeev Naik shared some good news for residents of Vashi as finally the dry Morbe dam water pipelines laid by NMMC between Kalamboli and Vashi supply water to the city. The pipeline was inaugurated recently at the hands of Guardian Minister Ganesh Naik. While the residents were living …
It would take another four years, 2012, for the Cauvery Stage IV Phase-II project to get completed as scheduled and provide every citizen 150 Litres Per Day (LPD). This is the standard quantity of water supply recommended for the resident of any metro city by the Central Public Health and …
Arun Mathur, CEO DJB is confident that the DJB will go from strength to strength What are the noteworthy water management projects launched in the city and what is the potential for improving supply and distribution? DJB has, through a variety of management initiatives, ensured availability of safe and potable …
The weekend started off on an uncomfortably warm note and Delhiites had to bear the worst of it with water supply showing no signs of improvement. However, for those worried about not being able to celebrate Holi properly this year, officials have their fingers crossed that the supply should normalise …
Finding the water and power situation in city far from satisfactory even before the onset of summer, the Delhi BJP has decided to target the Sheila Dikshit Government on the issue in the Assembly during the Budget session. During a meeting with legislators this past week, Leader of Opposition in …
