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Water sanitation and hygiene for accelerating and sustaining progress on neglected tropical diseases: a global strategy 2015-2020

The World Health Organization (WHO) unveiled a global plan to better integrate water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services with four other public health interventions to accelerate progress in eliminating and eradicating neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) by 2020.

Publication Date: 
27/08/2015
World Health Organization
Tags:
Tropical Diseases, Health Effects, Water Supply, Sanitation, Poverty, Developing Countries, India, Drinking Water Quality, Child Health
Water Supply

Rs2,600 cr mega water project in offing

The State Government has made a plan to implement a Mega Flow Water Scheme at a cost of Rs2,600 crore through which 70 litre of safe water per head would be provided to all households in the State.

Publication Date: 
26/08/2015
Pioneer (Bhubaneswar)
Tags:
Orissa (Odisha), Water Supply, Drinking Water, Rural Water Supply, Fluoride, Drinking Water Quality
Water Resources

Invisible water, visible crisis

By now, everyone in India understands that we have a serious water crisis. Too many of our rivers are polluted, dammed, or dying.

Publication Date: 
24/08/2015
Rohini Nilekani
India Today (New Delhi)
Tags:
India, Groundwater, Drinking Water Scarcity, Water Pollution, Drinking Water Quality
Water Supply

50% residents of Patna sans safe drinking water

Patna: More than half the population in Patna has no access to safe drinking water.

Publication Date: 
10/08/2015
Sheezan Nezami
Times Of India (Patna)
Tags:
Bihar, Patna (T), Water Supply, Drinking Water, Drinking Water Quality, Municipal Corporation, Waste Management
Water Pollution

Question raised in Rajya Sabha on contamination of drinking water, 03/08/2015

Question raised in Rajya Sabha on contamination of drinking water, 03/08/2015. Rajasthan is the worst State affected with 22,254 water quality affected habitations which are yet to be provided safe drinking water as on 1/4/2015.

Publication Date: 
03/08/2015
Rajya Sabha
Tags:
Drinking Water, Drinking Water Quality, Arsenic, Fluoride, Salinity, India, Parliament, Rajasthan
Health

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding arsenic in the ground water of District Ballia, Uttar Pradesh, 23/07/2015

Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Sunita Pandey & Anr. Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 23/07/2015 regarding arsenic in the ground water of District Ballia, Uttar Pradesh.

Judgement Date: 
23/07/2015
Tags:
Arsenic, Ballia (D), Uttar Pradesh, Court, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Groundwater Pollutants, Health Effects, Panchayats, Drinking Water Quality
Water Pollution

Question raised in Lok Sabha on contaminated drinking water, 23/07/2015

Question raised in Lok Sabha on contaminated drinking water, 23/07/2015. As on 1/4/2015, States have reported 66,761 rural habitation with water quality contaminations like arsenic, fluoride, iron, salinity and nitrate. State-wise details of water quality affected habitations which are yet to be provided with safe drinking water is at Annex-I. Under the centrally sponsored National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP), 67% of the funds released to States can be utilized for coverage and tackling water quality problems.

Publication Date: 
Thursday, July 23, 2015
Lok Sabha
Tags:
Drinking Water, Drinking Water Quality, Arsenic, Fluoride, Salinity, Statistics, India, Parliament, Fluorosis
Water Pollution

Water quality a concern in Puri ahead of N’kalebar

Apprehension still haunts different quarters as to whether the administration would be able to provide safe drinking water to the estimated 30 lakh Rath Yatra visitors as majority of water samples

Publication Date: 
15/07/2015
Pioneer (Bhubaneswar)
Tags:
Orissa (Odisha), Drinking Water Quality, Puri (T), Water Pollution, Drinking Water, Bottled Water Industry
Water Supply

Progress on sanitation and drinking water: 2015 update and MDG assessment

Lack of progress on sanitation threatens to undermine the child survival and health benefits from gains in access to safe drinking water, warn WHO and UNICEF in a report tracking access to drinking water and sanitation against the Millennium Development Goals.

Publication Date: 
30/06/2015
WHO
Tags:
Drinking Water, Sanitation, Water Supply, Health, India, Global, Drinking Water Quality, Health Care
Water Supply

Rs 40 kit for testing water, courtesy Punjab Agricultural University

LUDHIANA: PAU claims to have developed a water-testing kit that costs only Rs 40.

Publication Date: 
24/06/2015
Times of India (Chandigarh)
Tags:
Punjab, Innovation, Drinking Water Quality, WHO, Waterborne diseases

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