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 …
The WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation (JMP) reports every two years on progress towards the drinking-water and sanitation target under Millennium Development Goal 7. This target calls for halving the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation between 1990 …
New Delhi: Drinking water is supposed to be one of India’s success stories — the government says it met its Millennium Development Goal on water five years ahead of time, and that its rural drinking water mission has reached every uncovered habitation. Yet Census 2011 data shows that 20% of …
This study, commissioned by Triple-S, seeks to shed light on the progress in achieving scaled-up sustainable rural service delivery. It examines a number of service delivery models currently being implemented in India, by identifying their strengths, challenges and limitations. The study also identifies key conclusions for achieving more sustainable service …
Groundwater levels plummet; dried up wells, boreswells and tanks a common sight A drinking water crisis looms large over Anantapur district. With the monsoon playing truant and the water from the Tungabhadra High Level canal mismanaged, groundwater levels around the district have plummeted to depths unheard of before. Dried up …
Chief minister Arjun Munda on Sunday laid the foundation stone of a Rs 6-crore rural drinking water project at Manpur village, Baharagora block in East Singhbhum, about 100 kilometres from Jamshedpur, signalling his government’s commitment to the hinterland. Accompanied by deputy chief minister Hemant Soren and Bahragora MLA Vidyut Barun …
This paper attempts to bring out the influence of governance systems on the water and sanitation service levels in rural Andhra Pradesh, India. As part of WASHCost (India) Project survey was conducted in 107 villages using the participatory methodologies to elicit the information and perceptions of the different community groups …
The government has completed six water schemes and two bridges in Mohmand Agency to provide clean drinking water and better communication facilities to tribal people to bring them at par with developed parts of the country. The schemes were completed in Tehsils Pindiali, Safi and Khewezai in Mohmand Agency that …
Groundwater table is sinking fast in 60 per cent districts of the State, which is casting an adverse impact on piped water supply schemes and drinking water situation can assume worse proportions in years to come. Therefore, joint efforts are the need of the hour for replenishment and stability of …
The Government of India (GoI) initiated its national flag ship programme on sanitation, the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) in 1999. The TSC is a restructured version of the Central Rural Sanitation Programme (CRSP). In Rajasthan, the TSC was initially launched in 4 districts in 1999 and scaled up in all …
The Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation administers the National Rural Drinking Water programme (NRDWP) instituted from 1/4/2009, through which support is extended to the states for implementing rural domestic water supply schemes. Powers to sanction individual projects is given to the states through their State Level Scheme Sanctioning Committees. …
Sterlite Copper has sponsored Rs 2.7 lakh towards a drinking water project at Vadakkusilukkanpatti. Col. S. Krishnan handed over the confirmation letter to Collector Ashish Kumar, Collector, here on Friday. It has sponsored the project based on requests from the villagers as there is an acute shortage of water. The …
Addressing the challenges of water management and governance in rural and urban areas, this new IDFC report deals with water politics, leakage of water in urban areas as well as the lack of water recycling mechanisms. Addressing the challenges of water management and governance, the India Infrastructure Report 2011 brings …
It is a tragedy that should arouse us all to fury. In Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharashtra, farmers have parched fields while dam reservoirs are full. Wells have run dry despite normal summer rainfall. Things are so bad that Andhra and Karnataka have declared a drought. Maharashtra is on the …
Gandhinagar: Closely following the draft Gujarat Water Policy 2011 sent to the chief minister’s office (CMO) for finalization, a fresh high-level document, prepared for the Planning Commission of India, has proposed major water reforms in rural Gujarat. This document proposes introducing availability of water 24x7 through water meters at the …
This article looks at the emerging policy context on irrigation and drinking water supply in Jharkhand, the position of water rights in state legislation, the importance of water user groups, the critical issues of access to water for both the rural and the urban poor and the legal implications.
This paper presents primary data collected from two districts of Surat and Kutch in Gujarat and examines how and to what extent the decentralised system of governance has contributed to delivery of health services in rural areas of Gujarat. It finds several lacunae and shortcomings in the delivery by panchayati …
New Delhi, Jan. 4: Jharkhand had asked for a longer rope to meet the plan of providing drinking water to every village under the National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP). But Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh, who also holds the drinking water and sanitation portfolio, in a missive to …
A study of the socio-economic situations of three villages in north-eastern Andhra Pradesh shows that while times and values have vastly changed, not much has been transformed in terms of privileges and opportunities. Those belonging to landowning families have managed to get a good education and secure good jobs or …
Economic criteria shape investments in drinking-water supply systems and services. Yet, often they may be defined in a narrow sense and economic returns may be evaluated in strictly financial terms. The result is an emphasis on large, urban infrastructural works. Yet, a large part of the world's population in rural …
People in developing countries do not have access to safe drinking water and in Pakistan; the vast majority of the country’s 180 million inhabitants do not have access to drinkable water. According to a report of Pakistan Council for Research in Water Resources (PCRWR), the best rural water supply amongst …
