The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Considering the intense heatwave conditions for more than a week and reports of drinking water crisis trickling in from different parts of the State, the Government has instructed district collectors to deploy special teams for restoration of defunct tube-wells and rural pipe water systems. According to district reports, 678 mobile …
MUMBAI: The Vidarbha region, which lost many a farmer to agrarian crisis, is now staring at a bigger demon: Drought. Among the six districts of Vidarbha, Buldhana and Amravati have been declared drought-hit. The immediate outcome is that children have to brace the scorching sun and walk for miles to …
Public Health Engineering Minister Shri Gaurishankar Bisen has urged the Union Government that instead of solution to drinking water arrangements by installing hand pumps, the Union Government should extend assistance in making water available through piped water schemes based on surface water in the rural areas. By doing so, drinking …
Devolution of more powers to panchayats in the management of national rural drinking water mission and the issues of arsenic and shortage of drinking water will figure prominently at the two-day national conference of state ministers of rural drinking water supply and sanitation beginning in New Delhi tomorrow. The state …
State Cabinet here on Wednesday took several important decisions. It decided to constitute Madhya Pradesh Water Corporation (MPWC) for implementation of group piped water schemes in rural area. The corporation will avail loans under prescribed procedure to run these schemes and other fiscal management. The Corporation will implement piped drinking …
The centre has sanctioned Rs588 crore as a relief measure in the 15 drought-hit districts of the state, announced relief and rehabilitation minister Patangrao Kadam here on Tuesday. The money will be released soon, he added. Following the state’s demand of Rs1,500 crore towards the Calamity Relief Fund (CRF), a …
Sangli/Satara: It's not only the Centre's much-anticipated relief package that political parties are trying to hijack. Politicians cutting across party lines have been touring the 15 drought-hit districts of the state, doling out platitudes. These tours have now started rankling locals who believe the visits are nothing more than mere …
KOZHENCHERRY: Water Resources Minister P J Joseph said that the coverage of Japanese Drinking Water Scheme would be extended to more districts in the state. Inaugurating the Kerala Water Authority Staff Association state-level leadership training camp at Charalkunnu near here on Monday, P J Joseph said that the Japanese Drinking …
In an effort to help the areas reeling under the drought along the Maharashtra and Karnataka border, chief minister Prithviraj Chavan (pictured right), on Monday, sought help from the neighbour state. “I have urged the government of Karnataka to release water from its dam to meet the water crisis in …
Foundation stones for six water supply and drainage schemes were laid in four villages of taluka Khairpur Nathan Shah and Mehar here on Monday. MPA of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Imran Zafar Leghari laid the stones for the schemes in Fareedabad, Saeedpur, Aliwal and Mado villages. He also announced construction …
Arghyam, a non-profit foundation focusing on domestic water and sanitation, has published a document highlighting a water quality management (WQM) framework for rural areas. The framework lays out a phased and process-driven approach to WQM in rural areas and is based on work done by 12 prominent non-governmental organisations (NGOs) …
The revised National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP) Guidelines issued by Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission, Department of Drinking Water & Sanitation has focus on adequate water supply in quantity and quality, to each rural household on a sustainable basis. Despite the impressive coverage of provision of safe drinking …
The Housing Census 2011 has revealed that, although Uttarakhand has achieved considerable progress in provision of basic amenities, the number of mobile phone users in rural households is higher than the number of households with drinking water facility. The chief of Directorate of Census Operations, Uttarakhand, Sneh Lata Agarwal, said …
PARADIP: With wells running dry and water tables depleting throughout the State, this is feared to be a dry summer. The impact is already being felt in Jagatsinghpur district. Many villages here are facing acute water shortage. To address the issue, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had laid foundation stone for …
The government has completed various uplift projects in different areas of Kurram Agency to help improve the living standards of tribal people. The Political Administration has completed a drinking water supply system for the village of Pewar in Upper Kurram. The community is located close to the border with Afghanistan …
Buoyed by the success of eight states including Tamil Nadu and Gujarat in implementing a scheme to provide safe drinking water to rural habitations, the Centre today allocated additional funds to them to give a further boost to the ambitious programme. The states which got bonuses were Tamil Nadu (Rs …
Bonus funds for executing rural water supply schemes The Centre has rewarded eight States for performing well in executing rural drinking water schemes during 2011-12. Union Minister of Rural Development Jairam Ramesh has decided to provide bonus funds to Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Tripura, Assam, Haryana, Punjab, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu …
To benefit habitations, schools, Adi Dravidar welfare hostels Rural water supply schemes in the district have been expedited to benefit habitations, schools, Adi Dravidar welfare hostels, and anganwadis considering the need to provide safe potable water to those locations. With summer setting in rapidly and the demand for drinking water …
GUWAHATI: The rural drinking water supply under the Central Government’s flagship Bharat Nirman programme has not proved to be a success in Assam in comparison to other States. This was revealed in the Economic Survey 2011-12 presented by the Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in the Parliament before the presentation …
Idinthakarai: Encircled by a posse of armed policemen, Idinthakarai fishing hamlet on the southern Tamil Nadu coast has been virtually cut off from the mainland even as the villagers protesting against the Kudankulam nuclear plant refused to hold talks with two police officials who visited the protest site. Power supply …
