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 …
Chief Minister Harish Rawat has reduced the ground water surcharge by 3.5 percent, which means that now users will have to pay only 1.5 per cent instead of five per cent. Now onward industrial units, building construction companies, Government buildings and other commercial institutions that have been harnessing ground water, …
This paper examines selected policy issues of importance for achieving individual SDGs, drawing on recent analytical work conducted at the IMF. The topics examined include: how to achieve sustained economic growth in developing countries; how to ensure that economic growth is inclusive, reducing inequalities while benefiting all; and how to …
Good quality infrastructure services have to be paid for, either by the users as user charges or by the government through explicit subsidies. The recent dismantling of toll booths in the country is increasing the political and regulatory risks in public-private partnership projects, as user fees as a revenue source …
The Delhi Jal Board (DJB), in a statement on Tuesday said that about six lakh consumers availed benefit of free water scheme in the second round of billing as people have started to voluntarily install functional water meters to reduce water consumption and to avail benefit of free water scheme …
Better methods to account for water’s value could improve corporate decision making, strengthen economic growth and ensure healthier ecosystems, according to a new report by WWF. The report, The Value of Water: A framework for understanding water valuation, risk and stewardship, shows that most investment decisions are based on the …
The National Green Tribunal has directed the sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) of Vasant Vihar in South Delhi to immediately provide clean drinking water to the residents of the area owing to water shortage. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar directed the SDM to hold a meeting with the …
PUNE: The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is finding it difficult to cater to the rising demand of water as resources with the corporation are limited, states the Environment Status Report (ESR), which reiterates the need for a metered water supply. "In the last few years, water supply has been under …
Already facing a crop failure-like situation during almost every kharif season due to massive rain and faulty drainage system, a majority of farmers in waterlogging-affected Muktsar and Fazilka districts are likely to face another major trouble this paddy season. The Irrigation Department has decided to shut the water inlets to …
This paper examines water challenges, a growing global concern with adverse economic and social consequences, and discusses economic policy instruments. Water subsidies provided through public utilities are estimated at about $456 billion or 0.6 percent of global GDP in 2012. The paper suggests that getting economic incentives right, notably by …
Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to charge water users for over-consumption in areas hit with some of California's toughest reduction mandates as the state withers from a four-year drought. The conservation plan, approved unanimously by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, will charge most consumers in heavy-use …
From rewarding e-rickshaw and auto drivers, and residents of unauthorised colonies, the Aam Aadmi Party government’s 100 days in office were underlined by welfare schemes as grand as the political mandate bestowed upon it by voters from each category. Transport Minister Gopal Rai told The Hindu the government has no …
The global food sector faces extraordinary risks from the twin challenges of water scarcity and water pollution. Growing competition for water, combined with weak regulations, failing infrastructure, pollution and climate change impacts threaten the sector’s water security and contribute to a water availability emergency that was recently ranked the world’s …
GURGAON: Residents of Hasanpur village, who were forced to live with a major water problem for years on end, can now breathe easy. A water purification unit, inaugurated by assistant deputy commissioner Vinay Pratap on Thursday, will provide RO-filtered water to the villagers at a cost of Rs 6 per …
China will encourage more social capital to take part in the construction of water conservancy projects, a senior official said on Tuesday, as the country is set to begin the construction of 27 water projects this year. Jiao Yong, vice-minister of water resources, said more social investment would be encouraged …
The provision of reliable and adequate drinking water services in rural communities is important. Here, the researchers reported on a study that evaluated the respondents’ willingness to pay for water services in the two communities in Mutale Local Municipality, South Africa. The study was accomplished through open-ended questionnaire interviews with …
The Aam Aadmi Party-led Delhi Government on Tuesday announced 20,000 litres of water free of cost to every household per month in the national Capital. However, water tariff will be charged if the consumption exceeds 20,000 litres. The water scheme is expected to benefit 18 lakh households in the city, …
The newly-elected AAP government is in the process of taking up the issue of no supply of the Delhi Jal Board’s drinking water to the Red Fort since January last year. The officials responsible for the upkeep of the historic fort, frequented by about 7,000 visitors every day, have expressed …
Industries' thirst for water is increasing and so is the amount being paid by them as water cess. Recently released figures from the environment ministry show that the total amount, collected as water cess from industries in different states, has increased by over Rs 40 crore in the past three …
After having deferred it in the last two meetings, the general house of the municipal corporation on Thursday unanimously rejected a proposal to increase water tariff, meant “to check excessive use of water’’ in the city. As in the past, Mayor H C Kalyan initially said that the issue was …
PANJIM: Government’s promise to provide 24x7 filtered tap water supply to whole of Goa would be fulfilled by December 2016, PWD Minister Ramakrishna Sudin Dhavalikar said on Thursday at the inauguration of the online payment of water bills. This makes Goa the first State to introduce this facility. Chief Minister …
