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
The Haryana Cabinet has approved a pilot project for providing safe drinking water based on reverse osmosis and related technologies in select water quality affected villages in the Public-NGO-Community Mode through the Naandi Foundation of Hyderabad. Announcing this after the Cabinet meeting, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda disclosed that 100 villages would be taken up in the affected districts including Mewat, Mahendergarh, Jhajjar and Kaithal.
The cabinet today approved a pilot project for providing safe drinking water "based on reverse osmosis and related technologies' in selected villages of the state under the public-NGO-community mode through the Naandi Foundation, Hyderabad. As many as 100 villages will be taken up Mewat, Mahendragarh, Jhajjar, Kaithal and other districts. A committee with the deputy commissioner or the additional deputy commissioner as the head, Naandi Foundation, and the panchayat representatives concerned as members will be formed to implement the project at the local level.
treating drinking tap water with chlorine makes it bacteria-free. But its by-products may increase the risk of abnormalities among newborns, says a recent study. Researchers studied data on 400,000 infants in Taiwan and by products of chlorine in the water separately from 2001-03. Using these two sets of data, the researchers assessed exposure in mothers who were expecting. Of the 400,000
Several hundred head of camel, sheep and cattle shoved and bustled in the blistering afternoon heat to get closer to the well. Many of them were crying and braying from thirst. Nearby, also waiting their turn, half a dozen Touareg nomads sat on donkeys carrying empty yellow water containers. Some had traveled a day or more just to get to this well.
Hindupur/Dharmavaram, July 6: Alleging that municipal officials and people's representatives had failed to solve the water problem, women staged protests in Hindupur and Dharma-varam on Sunday. In Hindupur, women sta-ged a rasta roko on the Hindupur-Anantpaur main road with empty pots. The CPI councillor, Ms Asiya Banu, and the town CPI general secretary, Mr Suresh Babu, extended their support to the protest. Traffic came to a halt as the women organised the stir from 9 am to 11.30 am.
DH News Service, Shidlaghatta: MLA V Muniyappa expressed his displeasure over the return of about 70 per cent of the funds sanctioned by the World Bank, for the desilting and revival of lakes and ponds in Shidlaghatta taluk. He was speaking after inaugurating the Nallenahalli mini water supply scheme and Nadipinayakanahalli mini water supply scheme and also the stone-laying ceremony of the first floor of the milk producers co-operative association - all of which come under Nagamangala Gram Panchayat limits, in Shidlaghatta taluk on Wednesday.
Kolar, DHNS: Much awaited Yaragol project works would soon be launched and the process is on to call tenders for the Rs 240 crore worth project that would end drinking water crisis in three taluks of Kolar district.
Visakhapatnam July 3: The human resources minister of Singapore, Mr Gan Kim Yang, and a team of officials visited city on Thursday. The city mayor, Mr Pulusu Janardhana Rao, called on the minister at a local hotel here and held talks on various schemes and projects taken up by either governments. Mr Janardhana Rao enquired on various civic schemes being implemented in Singapore and also explained to him on the implementation of various welfare schemes, particularly, the reconstruction programme being taken up under Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission funds.
Underground drinking water samples of IM2 hand pumps at twelve different sites at Moradabad were collected and analysed for physico-chemical water quality parameters following standard methodology of sampling and estimation to assess underground aquatic contamination at Moradabad. The estimated values were compared with drinking water quality standards prescribed by W.H.O.
Bill to regulate and control the development of groundwater and the matters connected therewith and incidental thereto. This Act may be called the