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 …
NEW DELHI: Spurred by the need to look at climate change impact on water resources, the Centre is formulating a revised National Water Policy in consultation with the States and other stakeholders to ensure basin-level management strategies. This would deal with variability in rainfall and river flows due to climate …
Tapasya Mohan, a 29-year-old executive in a telecom company, recently purchased a refrigerator. She did not go by looks but the five-star label on the fridge for energy efficiency. She did not mind paying more; the salesman convinced her she would save more in the long run on her electricity …
The Water Rate is levied for supply of water from a public or a private system with a view to ensure equitable water distribution, efficiency of the irrigation system and its management. It has been attracting attention of Planners, Policy makers and Researchers in India in view of its important …
Hyderabad, Sept. 26: The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB;) is proposing to hike the water tariff for its commercial consumers at `35 per kl by creating a separate tariff slab for them. There will be no hike for domestic consumers. The Chief Minister, Mr K. Rosaiah, had …
10-day ultimatum for water tax evaders Ranchi, Sept. 1: Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC) today served public notices to as many as 40 business establishments, including hotels, restaurants and hospitals in the state capital, for flouting water connection norms to evade tax. The RMC has given these establishments 10 days time …
This document reports provides an action plan to implement water reforms in Orissa to address the imminent water challenges of the state. The report provides an overview of the water challenges of Orissa which include growing competition for water resources from industrial and urban development, in a variable hydrological environment.
Pune The water scarcity that hit the city hard last year had given a major fillip to the private water tankers business in the city with the owners making the most of the opportunity and exploiting the dire situation faced by citizens
Mumbai: Public water taps in the city could soon be a thing of the past. The state plans to replace them with bottled water booths to ensure slum dwellers get potable water at Rs5 for a 20-litre can. Water supply and sanitation minister Laxman Dhobale on Wednesday said his government …
Village Water and Sanitation Committees increase user fee BHUBANESWAR: Even as rural Orissa is struggling to cope with scorching heat and acute drinking water crisis, rising power cost has made life miserable for those, who had even drinking water sources available at their doorstep. Village Water and Sanitation Committees (VWSCs) …
This report summarizes the good practices that were culled from a case study series on successful Asian water utilities. The case studies presented objective, accurate, and critical analyses of urban water management practices in eight Asian cities over a 10-year period. Other local leaders throughout the developing world can use …
Throughout the developing world, many water distribution systems are unreliable. As a result, it becomes necessary for each household to store its own water as a hedge against this uncertainty. Since arrivals of water are not synchronized across households, serious distributional inefficiencies arise. We develop a model describing the optimal …
Juliette Jowit World Bank and OECD say water must be valued at a higher price in order to force prudent use and create efficient supply systems. Precious drops:Water going waste from a public tap in Salem. Experts say highly subsidised prices cause people to not use water prudently. Major economies …
Kalpana Jain / New Delhi April 23, 2010, 0:58 IST Industry may soon have to pay a lot more for the water it uses. The Union government is in talks with various state governments to draft a model Bill that would lead to a multi-fold increase in water charges for …
BWSSB Minister Katta Subramanya Naidu on Friday said the proposed increase in water tariff would not be introduced until the summer concludes. Speaking at the launch of a campaign on rain water harvesting at RMV State II in Sanjay Nagar, he said the Board was suffering a loss of Rs …
Jamshedpur: The ongoing water crisis in Mango has left residents parched, but has proved a boon for casual labourers who are busy earning some quick money, ferrying water to homes in the area. And helpless residents are shelling out the cash, as its either that or going without a drop …
Ullal unit of Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) staged a protest in front of Ullal Town Municipal Council on Monday condemning hike in water tariff and disconnecting public taps. The protesters alleged that the TMC is trying to make water a commodity of the rich owing to the conditions …
Afshan Yasmeen Bangalore: With most of the city Bharatiya Janata Party MLAs against the proposed increase in water tariff now, Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa may consider deferring the hike at least till July-August. The Chief Minister on Sunday announced that he would take a decision on the hike on April …
G Manjusainath, Bangalore, Apr 11, DHNS: Even before the swearing-in could begin for the new corporators of Bruhat Baangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), the job of the Congress Corporator from Devarajeevanahalli ward R Sampath Raj has already begun. Ever since he got elected, he claims to be supplying water to his …
Bill To Be Tabled In Next Assembly Session New Delhi: Using grounwater without any care in the world? Your happiness may be short-lived. After much resistance from the opposition, the Sheila Dikshit government is determined to push the groundwater Bill that will make extraction of the precious resource chargeable. Speaking …
