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. …
As the world urbanizes, global health challenges are increasingly concentrated in cities. Currently, over 80% of the population in Latin America already lives in cities. The African urban population is projected to double in the next decade and China has urbanized in thirty years at a rate it took Europe …
2012 has brought welcome news of the progress made in bringing water and sanitation to the many people worldwide still without access to these essential services. The Joint Monitoring Programme between the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF reported that the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target for water was achieved …
While unplanned colonies retain a negative image for most city planners, pragmatic reasons favour their regularisation. A large number of Delhi's residents live in such unauthorised colonies, most of which are now being regularised. But just how many people, and what changes for them through regularisation? This process does not …
This report by World Bank & MoUD in collaboration with the states of Maharashtra, Rajasthan & Haryana identifies key elements of a state-wide program for improving water supply and sanitation services and accountability in India. The purpose of this report is to distill lessons learnt for improving Water Supply and …
Water pollution from sewage is causing great damage to India. The nation needs to complete its waste systems and reinvent toilet technologies, says Sunita Narain.
Urban campaigner and architect Arif Hasan has been central to a sanitary revolution, transforming Orangi, Karachi, from informal settlement to thriving community. Using his technical know-how, residents built a sewage system, sparking vast social change. Now chair of Pakistan's urbanization task force, he discusses incorporating sustainable design into poor cities.
Half of humanity – 3.5 billion people – currently live in cities and by 2055 an estimated 75% of the world's population will live in urban areas. Cities occupy just 2% of the Earth's land, but account for over 70% of both energy consumption and carbon emissions. However, cities present …
New Delhi may be the capital of the country but 22 per cent of its people do not have access to a latrine in their premises and are forced to defecate in the open or use public toilet. According to 'Houselisting and Housing Census 2011' for Delhi released today, 89.5 …
Untreated waste water is a health hazard. Nonetheless, it should be considered a resource. Unless it is recycled and re-used, it will be impossible to provide all people in the cities of developing countries with safe drinking water. The example of India shows that agglomerations cannot get ever more fresh …
The existing Manual on Sewerage and Sewage Treatment published by the Ministry in the year 1993 is being revised and updated by the Expert Committee constituted by the Ministry with JICA assistance. The draft of the Manual on Sewerage and Sewage Treatment (Part A: Engineering) has already been finalized by …
Sandwiched between India and Myanmar and with an area of 147,570 sq km, Bangladesh is among the world's most densely populated countries with a population of 164 million. The country is geologically part of the Bengal Basin, among the largest in the world. Nearly 50 per cent of the country …
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today launched the ‘Clean School, Clean Guwahati’ campaign at Cotton Collegiate HS School in Guwahati. As part of this campaign, the three cleanest schools in the city will be rewarded and action will be taken against those schools which perform poorly so far as the cleanliness …
The Water and Sanitation Program undertook this study to conduct evidence based research to help advocacy in the sanitation sector. The study aims to empirically estimate the economic impacts of current poor sanitation conditions in Pakistan as well as the economic benefits of options for improved conditions. The study’s ultimate …
Tamil Nadu's scorecard for the decade is well ahead of the national average Tamil Nadu, acknowledged widely as one of the progressive States, has lived up to this image through its enhanced performance, over the last 10 years, in most of development parameters except sanitation. Be it the use of …
The majority of the world’s population now live in urban centres, which will also absorb virtually all population growth in the next century. Urbanisation involves major shifts in the ways people work and live, and offers unprecedented opportunities for improved standards of living, higher life expectancy and higher literacy levels, …
This advisory note on Improving Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Services (WSS) in India is an effort to provide guidance to States and Cities in adopting specific policies and governance structures for improving service delivery to the customers. The note seeks to address key policy, institutional, financial and professional issues …
The High Level Committee on Financing Infrastructure has constituted a subcommittee on Financing Urban Infrastructure with the following terms of reference: Year-wise investments for the twelfth plan; Sources of financing (viz. debt, equity, grants etc.,) anticipated in the 11th Plan and estimated for the twelfth plan; Innovative ways of financing …
For long we have been fed lies. Mumbai has no scarcity of houses and the key to the truth lies in using digital technology to unlock the city's housing potential.
Urban waste management are being increasingly transformed from a disposal-based linear system to a recovery-based closed-loop system that promotes the conservation of water and nutrient resources thereby contributing to sustainable development. The current manuscript compares the decentralized and centralized approaches to wastewater systems by citing several studies that have listed …
