Counter affidavit on behalf of Chief Municipal Engineer, Patna Nagar Nigam in the matter of Saurav Narayan Vs Bihar Pollution Control Board & Others dated May 20, 2025. The report said that the corporation has been diligently performing its statutory duties within the limitations of the available resources and infrastructure. …
China intends to spend about $2 billion in the next two or three years to become a power in the highly competitive computer industry. Chinese officials confirmed recently in Texas they plan to make major purchases of US equipment to produce silicon chips that form the basic component in computers, …
A YEAR ago, there was excitement and anticipation in Shaheed Nagar when it was announced that a weekly Hindi newspaper would be launched in the colony. Shaheed Nagar in Uttar Pradesh was once an illegal slum close to Delhi. Today, it is a regularised colony of 60,000 and has virtually …
THE MYANMAR military junta's plans to use income from oil and gas concessions to buy weapons to keep its brutal dictatorship going have run into a snag, as many of the disenchanted international oil companies have decided to pull out. After three years in fruitless exploratory drilling, most of the …
AS STAR TV enters its second year of existence, there is less of its excellent public service advertisements to be seen. With paid consumer advertising increasing, the network no longer has to run messages on environmental protection and conservation as frequently. This, of course, is a great pity, for Doordarshan …
Australia is regretting buying a pig in a poke. A large quantity of peat moss it had imported from Russia has been found to be dusted with irradiated caesium (a soft, silver-white element of the alkali metal group, found in minerals) from Chernobyl. The moss was tested only after it …
IN AN ambitious crusade sponsored by Hong Kong's Urban Council, 26 architectural firms competed to design posh public toilets. The winning design featured louvred ceilings, spacious stalls and high-tech fibreglass. The redeveloped toilets, which at about US $230,000 each will cost the same as existing facilities, will be the most …
CIVIC authorities in Kanpur never seem to find the time or the resources to solve the problems of the 3,000 residents of Rajapurva, a slum in the heart of the city. This must be so, otherwise how can one explain why a slum settlement that's older than the nation was …
THE COUNTRY'S first-ever agitation on the right to defecate has come to a sorry end. Residents of a slum in Ashok Vihar, a north Delhi colony, find themselves sandwiched between a court verdict that requires some of them to shift to create space for toilets and local residents opposing their …
WITH more and more local bodies showing a red bottomline, some of the core urban services may soon be up for grabs, if entrepreneurs are willing to take them on. The sectors under debate include water supply, garbage collection, sewage management and solid waste disposal, sanitation treatment plants and even …
WEDC is one of the world’s leading education and research institutes for developing knowledge and capacity in water and sanitation for low- and middle-income countries.The WEDC International Conference is a highly respected, global platform for practitioners, decision makers, academics and researchers who lead water and sanitation innovation in developing countries.The …
Join us as we hold the International Water Association (IWA)’s inaugural conference in Kathmandu, Nepal on “Sustainable Wastewater Treatment and Resource Recovery”. The theme, sustainable wastewater and resource recovery, provides for a critical and timely forum for bringing together scholars, leaders, and practitioners to discuss research and practice impacting wastewater …
From water to water - If there are humans, there will be excreta. If there is water use, there will be waste. Roughly 80 per cent of the water that reaches households in Indian cities flows out as waste. This video shows the state of the Indian rivers and the …
In October last year, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Swachh Bharat campaign, there was one thing he did differently as a politician. He set a target to achieve 100 per cent toilets in every school across the country till Independence Day in 2015. That was more than 4 …
NGO Forum for Urban Water & Sanitation in Nepal is a forum of civil society organizations active in water supply policy reforms, policy analysis of water, sanitation and other relevant issues. NGO Forum conducts researches on different aspects of urban water and sanitation issues which form strong basis of its …
Ministry of Physical Planning and Works established in 2000 during the course of the reorganization Government of Nepal. The main aim of reorganization was to bring important infrastructural development under the umbrella of a single Ministry and to harmonize the policies and bring efficiencies and effectiveness in the provision of …
WaterAid began its water, sanitation and hygiene work in Nepal in 1987 and now works with seven partner organisations in the country. Our activities with them are vital as approximately a third of all deaths in Nepal are of children under five, and half of these are due to diarrhoea. …
A network of organisations involved in water, sanitation and hygiene sector, which intends to facilitate the sharing of information and promote the use thereof to improve the performance of the sector as a whole. The Water, Sanitation and Hygiene-Resource Centre Network Nepal (WASH-RCNN) in association with Nepal Library Association (NLA) …
PSU is a policy support unit (PSU) of the Policy Implementation and Arsenic Section (WS-3) of the Water Supply Wing of the Local Government Division advising LGD on sector development and specifically on the implementation of policies and strategies of the water supply and sanitation (WSS) sub-sector in Bangladesh PSU …
WaterAid has been working in Bangladesh since 1986 and has a total of 21 partners covering 19 rural districts, three City Corporations and one Municipality in urban areas. WaterAid's strategy is to work through local partners to improve hygiene behaviour and access to water supply and sanitation (WSS) services for …
Development Alternatives -- a non-profit corporate organisation, devoted to design options and promote approaches for the sustainable development through economic efficiency, equity and social justice and environmental harmony, Resource conservation and self reliance.Its strategies are innovation and appropriate design of technologies, institutions, knowledge structures, policy advocacy, campaigns, research, networking,technical assistance …
