The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
Ranchi, Jan. 29: Get prepared to pay an extra buck for quenching your thirst with running tap water.. The drinking water and sanitation department has asked the urban development department to revise water supply taxes — recommending a 40 per cent hike — to recover cost of maintenance of pipelines …
Pricing of water alone will not solve the problems the planners have to grapple with to ensure its equitable distribution in the country. According to Dr Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, clarity on property rights to this precious natural resource is a more crucial issue warranting urgent attention. …
The office of the Water Board was flooded with complaints regarding the tariff hike and the poor quality of water, during the Prajavani programme held in the main office at Khairatabad on Monday. During the two-hour programme, around 70 grievances were collected, a majority of which were regarding the tariff …
Gandhinagar: Closely following the draft Gujarat Water Policy 2011 sent to the chief minister’s office (CMO) for finalization, a fresh high-level document, prepared for the Planning Commission of India, has proposed major water reforms in rural Gujarat. This document proposes introducing availability of water 24x7 through water meters at the …
An Act to provide a broad overarching national legal framework of general principles on water as a vital and stressed natural resource, under which legislation and executive action on water at all levels of governance, as also water-use and actions relating to water by citizens, their associations and voluntary agencies, …
The study investigates willingness to pay for water supply services in Khulna, using a contingent valuation method. Since the large connection cost is regarded as one of the major obstacles to expand the piped network among the poor, the model explicitly incorporates the connection cost in addition to monthly charge. …
Water is essential for life, yet 884 million people across the globe lack access to clean water supply, partly due to lack of regional availability of water resources and partly due to the inability of the relevant governments to provide potable water for all. Although water has been internationally recognised …
BHUBANESWAR: With public resistance mounting over sharing of river water with industries, the State Government is making a move towards a water conservation fund by levying one time water charge on thermal power plants coming up in the State. The Water Resource Department has reportedly proposed to impose one-time water …
The NSS consumer expenditure survey aims at generating estimates of average household monthly per capita consumer expenditure (MPCE), its distribution over households and persons, and its break-up by commodity group, separately for the rural and urban sectors of the country, for States and Union Territories, and for different socioeconomic groups. …
Addressing the challenges of water management and governance in rural and urban areas, this new IDFC report deals with water politics, leakage of water in urban areas as well as the lack of water recycling mechanisms. Addressing the challenges of water management and governance, the India Infrastructure Report 2011 brings …
Consumers will no longer have to wait endlessly or run from one office desk to another to resolve pending issues including billing disputes. The Delhi Jal Board has come out with a new scheme to address concerns in a time-bound manner. Starting November, all Joint Directors will have to be …
GANDHINAGAR: Gujarat government is seriously considering a proposal to make water meters compulsory in homes within the state's urban local bodies' limits (ULBs). A high-level document, still at the draft stage, has said, "In urban areas water for domestic purposes should be supplied through meter system." Part of the proposed …
With water bills suddenly jumping nearly 10 times despite no increase in consumption, several East Delhi residents' welfare associations have decided not to pay their bills for this cycle as a mark of protest against the inflated billing. Delhi East RWA Federation president Anil Bajpai said: “We are still coping …
Commercial use of groundwater, especially in Bangalore Urban, Bangalore Rural, Kolar and Chikkaballapur districts, will soon become a costly affair. The state government is contemplating imposing a flat rate of Rs 30 to 40 a kilo litre of ground water extracted for commercial purposes by metering the extraction. In the …
The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board is all set to hike the cost of drinking water for the domestic as well as commercial users. The additional revenue collected by the Water Board is expected to exceed `200 crore per annum. The proposal for the hike was submitted by …
This report is based on the outcome of discussions during a roundtable conference on ’Blue Revolution: Charting South Asia’s Water Future’ organised on 11 April, 2011, by ORF in collaboration with PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The ORF report is an attempt to list out the probable areas of …
KOLKATA, 23 AUG: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has proposed to upgrade the Gardenreach water works under public-private-partnership (PPP) model with the loan available from the Asian Development Bank (ADB). This indicates that the civic authorities are contemplating to introduce water tax despite the chief minister Miss Mamata Banerjee categorically …
LUCKNOW: Be prepared for a rude shock when you get your water tax bill. Thanks to Lucknow Jal Sansthan's decision to add arrears since 2002, the bill will at least be three to four times more than what you paid last year. The water tax is approximately 12.5% of the …
Calcutta, July 31: The Centre has stopped giving the Calcutta Municipal Corporation (CMC) funds under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission because of its refusal to levy water tax and inability to bring almost half the houses in the city under the property tax net. Delhi has not issued …
The Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) today held a procession of hundreds of its activists from the Red Fort to the Chief Minister's office to protest against the proposed privatisation of water in Delhi. The announcement in this regard was made by Sheila Dikshit in March this year. The …
