India's renewable energy sector, which is on the cusp of another growth spurt driven by the next wave of policies and reforms, offers significant investment opportunities for global and domestic investors, according to this joint report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) and Invest India. The …
The rapid growth of urban India has added new saliency to the resource conflict between the burgeoning cities and village India that continues to be the home for vast majority of Indians. Cities, like living organisms, depend on external metabolic flows to keep them alive. Among all the metabolic flows …
New Delhi: Is water privatization really needed in Delhi? Delhi Jal Board vehemently opposes the use of the word privatization, saying that since it will retain control of water treatment plants and other infrastructure, it is only outsourcing work that is necessary to bring efficiency into the system. Those opposed …
Apex court specifies that air, water, sea and forests cannot be with private sector A social republic like India cannot have water in private ownership and deny the citizens their right to quality water at affordable prices, said Justice Rajinder Sachar here on Tuesday, criticising the Delhi Government’s move to …
Is the PPP model going to work in the field of drinking water services? Mana-ging director Patrick Rous-seau of the French MNC giant Veolia India who has been providing 24x7 drinking water to the municipalities of Belgaum, Gulbarga and Hubli-Dharwad in Karnataka feels it is imminently possible. “We joined hands …
This report on the new private water supply augmentation project from Madikheda Reservoir, on Sindh River, to Shivpuri town looks at some of the issues concerning existing water supply and sources. It further discusses and analyses the concession contract signed between private operator and Shivpuri Municipal body to execute the …
Former Chief Justice of Delhi High Court Rajinder Sachar called on Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Monday to discuss government proposal to privatise the supply of water in the national capital. Calling the move unconstitutional, Justice Sachar said he was "totally against the idea of privatising what is a citizen's …
Jalasaksharatha Mission-Kerala has demanded that the government abandon its move to form a company to distribute drinking water. In a statement, the organisation’s Executive Director C.A. Vijayachandran, said the proposed company, to be formed on the model of Cochin International Airport Limited, would sell water based on profit. Such a …
Not satisfied with the Delhi Jal Board’s explanation that private companies are being roped in to “enhance services and reduce non-revenue water”, a non-government organisation, Water Privatisation-Commercialisation Resistance Committee, has torn into the arguments and called for an open debate and discussion on the issue of initiating public private partnership …
A day after the National Development Council meeting, the UPA government on Friday would seek the consent of the Chief Ministers to adopt the National Water Policy, the draft of which has already come in for opposition from several states. The draft of the policy will be discussed by the …
A product of the UNESCO-IHP project on Water and Cultural Diversity, this book represents an effort to examine the complex role water plays as a force in sustaining, maintaining, and threatening the viability of culturally diverse peoples. It is argued that water is a fundamental human need, a human right, …
Justice Sachar writes to Sheila: “Consumers will have to pay more for services” A non-government organisation, the Water Privatisation-Commercialisation Resistance Committee (WPCRC), has written to Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit against privatising the water sector in the Capital. Drawing comparisons with privatisation of the power sector carried out earlier, the WPCRC …
Moves towards a global water commodities market must be stopped. It will push the price of food far beyond the peaks of the past five years, warns Frederick Kaufman.
Opposition to overarching legal framework of principles on water A conference of Water Resources and Irrigation Ministers here on Wednesday saw opposition to the Centre’s proposal to evolve an overarching national legal framework of principles on water, to link financial assistance to “aggressive” water sector reforms and to set up …
As it convened a meeting of the National Water Resources Council, chaired by the Prime Minister, on Wednesday to discuss the proposed National Water Policy, one of the Central government’s key suggestions in the draft document — to evolve a broad overarching national water framework law — was objected to …
‘Supply of water is a human right, it cannot be leased out’ Even as the Delhi administration is getting ready to implement public private partnership model in water distribution in three areas of the city, a protest against the decision is all set to spill on to the streets. The …
After several failed attempts in the past, the water distribution system in the city is likely to undergo a complete transformation with the state government approving the privatisation of its management in Malviya Nagar, Vasant Vihar and Mehrauli of South Delhi amid protests of Resident Welfare Associations (RWAs). A pilot …
A proposal to privatise water supply and distribution in a few areas in the city has kicked up a row with union leaders threatening to disrupt the daily water supply if the government does not abandon the privatisation proposal. Though privatising water supply was first proposed in 2000-01, during the …
The experience of the last two decades is a testimony to the growing clout of the corporate sector to gain control over natural resources of the country. Privatisation of water will be very quick and easy if water is transferred from the State List to the Concurrent List In view …
Resident welfare associations (RWAs) of south Delhi, the area where the pilot project to privatise the water supply has been implemented, said that they would oppose the project unless the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) consults them through resident ward committees and councillors. United Residents Joint Action (URJA), a collective wing …
Say Govt. must focus on making the most of available resources As Delhi gets ready to implement public-private partnership models in the city to plug water and revenue leaks and ensure round-the-clock supply, water conservation experts want the Administration to look beyond dams and private companies and focus instead on …
