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 individual household level. Suggesting that this can be done on a pilot basis in 50 selected villages in the first year of the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-17), the document says other villages can follow “based on results and response of the community towards water usage.”

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).

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.

As many as 176 villages will be benefited from 30 surface water schemes. The zilla panchayat engineering division of Dakshina Kannada has proposed to draw more water from the River Nethravathi.

JAMMU: Committee on Estimates (EC) of Legislative Assembly today asked the officers and engineers of Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department to gear up the field functionaries and identify the t