2024 water funding gap report
Action Against Hunger released the 2024 Water Funding Gap report, finding that globally, only 36% of appeals for water- and sanitation-related funding were met in 2023, leaving a 64% gap. Despite dwindling
Action Against Hunger released the 2024 Water Funding Gap report, finding that globally, only 36% of appeals for water- and sanitation-related funding were met in 2023, leaving a 64% gap. Despite dwindling
Eluru, Sept. 17: In an effort to ensure safe drinking water to the people in the rural areas in the state, the Congress government has spent nearly Rs 5,150 crores so far. Minister for rural water supply Pinnamaneni Venkateswara Rao addressing the people at Dendulur and Gopannapalem villages here on Wednesday said that the government had taken up special measures to ensure supply of potable water.
The inaction argument makes us spend vast resources on policies that will do virtually nothing to deal with climate change, thereby diverting those resources from policies that could actually make an impact One commonly repeated argument for doing something about climate change sounds compelling, but turns out to be almost fraudulent. It is based on comparing the cost of action with the cost of inaction, and almost every major politician in the world uses it.
Urban Development and Sacred Area Development Minister Dinesh Gunawardane commissioned the Niripola rural water supply scheme constructed at a cost of Rs. five million. This scheme will benefit 170 families. Minister Gunawardane said the traditional development drive has been modernised with State funds and put to good use with rural labour. Minister Gunawardane said that the Gama Neguma and Maga Neguma development drives initiated under the Mahinda Chinthana is the means to utilise the rural resources and labour for development.
DH News Service, Mulbagal: Residents of Majarahosur under Mudianur gram panchayat limits in the taluk staged a protest with empty pots, condemning the damage of a borewell sunk by the government, here on Monday. The protesters alleged that a borewell was sunk in the grazing land in the village 15 years ago for supply of drinking water. However, one Eshwarappa of Uttanur has damaged the borewell by blocking it with stones, thus destroying the lone source of drinking water in the village, they alleged.
Lack of sufficient rain this year is bound to create a water crisis in Bhopal . The Government is bringing a legislation to form a Water Regulatory Commission. The Municipal Corporation has been leying Narmada cess from the inhabitants. For many decades one has been hearing that Narmada water will be brought over to Bhopal.
The Tamilnadu Government under the Leadership of Dr. Kalaignar Karunanidhi It has been two years since Dr. Kalaignar Karunanidhi took I over as Chief Minister of Tamilnadu. During these two I years, the state has made rapid strides in all sectors of the economy. Even as steps were taken to develope the industrial profile of the state, the government did not neglect the common man.
Riding on the better social indicators like health and primary education, India has achieved an over 27 per cent decline in poverty and is well on track to meet the target set for 2015, according to the United Nations. Even as it painted a bleak outlook for the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) for the World , the UN in its annual report on Thursday said India had made significant inroads into the health and primary education sectors.
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Hyderabad, Sept. 7: Four years after the Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy, promised daily water supply to the city, the Water Board is finally making arrangements to provide two-hour drinking water supply every day to the citizens in the core city from November 1. However, lakhs of citizens in the erstwhile 12 surrounding municipalities on the outskirts will continue to get supply only twice a week even after it.
Jamshedpur, Sept. 5: BJP legislator from Jamshedpur (west) Sarayu Roy today served an ultimatum to the state government asking them to start the Mango drinking water project by September 20. The water project has been hanging in balance for the past three years.