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 …
The two wastewater plants in the Township of Morris, New Jersey, USA have experienced significant savings in electricity costs, sludge removal, and chemical usage. Savings result from installation of an effective system to control dissolved oxygen levels in the plant's aerated digestion tanks.
Manufacturers and wastewater municipalities that treat and discharge wastewater are concerned with regulatory compliance and controlling costs. Most facilities must comply with regulations, such as the US Environmental Protection Agency's (USEPA) Clean Water Act, and optimize their wastewater treatment processes. To help achieve both goals, many facilities use total organic …
This new UN report presents challenges of unregulated wastewater discharged into rivers and seas. Calls for transforming wastewater into clean and economically attractive resource & details strategies that focus on sustainable water management. The world is facing a global water quality crisis. Continuing population growth and urbanisation, rapid industralisation, and …
Indu Bhan New Delhi: The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday sought reply from Hindustan Coco-Cola Beverages as to why duty should not be levied on water treated and purified by the company for supply to vendors for producing aerated beverages. A Bench headed by Justice SH Kapadia issued notice to …
In most developing countries wastewater treatment systems have very low coverage or function poorly, resulting in large-scale water pollution and the use of poor-quality water for crop irrigation, especially in the vicinity of urban centres. This can pose significant risks to public health, particularly where crops are eaten raw. Wastewater …
This project aims to identify the risks and benefits associated with the use of wastewater in urban and peri-urban fodder and vegetable cropping systems in India and Pakistan, where wastewater is largely untreated due to lack of public finance. Two mega-cities (Faisalabad, Pakistan and Hyderabad, India, with large untreated wastewater …
This report starts with a description of the methodology followed in the Wastewater Agriculture and Sanitation for Poverty Alleviation (WASPA) in Asia Project, including the overall project approach and some key concepts applied. It then describes the context of the two study areas, Rajshahi in Bangladesh and Kurunegala in Sri …
This new CPCB study on water consumption and sewage disposal patterns finds that 70% of the total municipal sewage and effluent from over 900 cities and towns are being discharged untreated into rivers, which are a major source of drinking water. The status of water supply and sanitation significantly indicate …
P B Jayakumar / Mumbai November 27, 2009, 1:28 IST Industrialisation, technology, urban need make commercial water supply a growing opportunity. The 47.3-hectare Commonwealth Games Village coming up in Delhi on the bank of the Yamuna will house thousands of athletes next October, in 1,100 flats. Thousands of litres of …
When a world-class casino, hotel and spa resort in California wanted to build an efficient and easy to operate wastewater treatment plant, it chose an innovative technology that could handle high-strength wastewater from the hotel and the large weekly variations in flows and loadings. The technology, a combination of sequencing …
This review provides applications of conventional and non-conventional adsorbents for removal of pesticides from waste-waters. The data presented are mainly based on laboratory studies and show potential advantages for treatment of pesticides bearing wastewater by various adsorbents.
Poor sanitation is responsible for the spread of a number of communicable diseases, resulting in lost productivity, reduced quality of life, and improvishment. Sanitation is one of the most cost-effective ways to improve public health. Using nationally representative data sets, the report presents analyses of progress, differentials, correlates, and challenges …
This study on financial and economic analysis of ecological sanitation (ecosan) in Sub-Saharan Africa was financed by the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP). It focused on a comparison of sanitation technologies suitable for urban settlements. The aim of the study was to compare ecosan with conventional sanitation systems in terms …
This study on financial and economic analysis of ecological sanitation (ecosan) in Sub-Saharan Africa was financed by the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP). It focused on a comparison of sanitation technologies suitable for urban settlements. The aim of the study was to compare ecosan with conventional sanitation systems in terms …
This report presents the institutional progress made in selected member countries towards achieving sanitation goals, as reported in an ESCAP-led survey. Institutional progress consists of changes in administrative, legal and financial rules and practices that have been made with sanitation goals in mind. It also includes the
The BWSSB has decided to supply treated water in all areas at 50 per cent of the cost of drinking water that is being supplied now. Treated water supply will begin within six months, Bangalore Water Supply Minister Katta Subramanya Naidu told reporters on Friday. Want to save on the …
