Water Policy

Water utilities that work for poor people: increasing viability through pro-poor service delivery

This publication is the second of a set of three WaterAid discussion papers on how to improve water and sanitation services to poor people. The set includes: Access for the poor and excluded: tariffs and subsidies for urban water supply;

Publication Date:

01/11/2009

Author(s): Yael Velleman

Source: WaterAid

Tags:

Water Policy, Urban Water Supply, Water Supply, India, Developing Countries

Water Supply

Vision 2030: the resilience of water supply and sanitation in the face of climate change - summary and policy implications

The global climate is changing - drinking-water and sanitation services have to prepare for the impact. If the widely anticipated flood and drought consequences of climate change come to pass, then both established water and sanitation services and future gains in access and service quality will be at risk.

Publication Date:

01/11/2009

Source: WHO

Tags:

Water Resources, Water Policy, Drinking Water, Climate Change, Water Supply, Sanitation, India, Global, South Asia

Environment

Cabinet approves Drinking Water Policy: Ogra may regulate E-10 pricing, marketing

The Cabinet on Monday approved an amendment in the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) Ordinance to enable it to regulate marketing and pricing of ethanol as petroleum product.

Publication Date:

29/09/2009

Source: Business Recorder (Pakistan)

Tags:

Water Policy, Drinking Water, Ethanol, Energy Efficiency, Pakistan

Water Supply

Cabinet approves National Drinking Water Policy

The federal cabinet approved the National Drinking Water Policy on Monday, which stipulates that the respective tiers of the government devise strategies and action plans to ensure access to safe drinking water for the entire nation by 2025.

Publication Date:

29/09/2009

Source: Daily Times (Pakistan)

Tags:

Water Policy, Drinking Water, UNICEF, World Bank, Pakistan

Water Resources

NWB meet to focus on States role in water management

The National Water Board (NWB) is meeting on September 18 to discuss a five-point agenda, with focus on the review of 2002 national water policy. The meeting, which would be attended by all State water resource secretaries, takes place after a two-year gap and coincides with the drought in 278 districts.

Publication Date:

16/09/2009

Source: Pioneer (New Delhi)

Tags:

Water Resources, Water Management, Water Policy, Reservoirs, Drought, India

Water Supply

Packaged water @ 10 paise/litre

Rural water supply scheme for Andhra has no room for public opinion; price may be hiked later villagers in Andhra Pradesh will soon get their drinking water supply in 20-litre plastic containers. The government has shortlisted five companies that would treat raw water and sell it to villagers. The government thinks this is the best way to supply safe drinking water to villages but

Publication Date:

14/09/2009

Author(s): Bharat Lal Seth

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Water Policy, Water Treatment Technology, Drinking Water, Rural Water Supply, Waterborne diseases, Water Supply, Private Sector, Panchayats, NGO, Andhra Pradesh

Water Resources

Transforming water policy and law: a water manifesto for the Government of India

This paper will first provide a synoptic account of the problems relating to water; from that diagnostic statement it will proceed to an adumbration of the responses needed and the changes in water policy that they call for; and it will then outline the water law reform that this requires.

Publication Date:

01/09/2009

Author(s): Ramaswamy R. Iyer

Source: Centre for Policy Research

Tags:

Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Water Resources, Groundwater, Water Management, Water Policy, Dams, Water Privatisation, Interstate Disputes, India

Climate Change

Environmentalism in the age of climate change

Indian environmentalism has been an important, even defining, element of a distinctly Southern brand of environmentalism. Largely rooted in local struggles over access to and control over resources, a stylized Southern environmentalism is closely connected to concerns over social justice and driven by subalterns rather rather than professionals?

Publication Date:

01/09/2009

Author(s): Navroz K. Dubash

Source: Seminar

Vol:

0

Issue:

601

pp:

63

Tags:

Environment, Water Policy, Climate Change, Climate Mitigation, Energy Policy, Climate Equity, Environmentalists, India, Developing Countries, Forests

Water Resources

Implementing integrated river basin management: lessons from the Red River Basin, Vietnam

This report focuses on the establishment of the Red River Basin Organization (RRBO) in Vietnam, but expands its analysis to the wider transformations of the water sector that impinge on the formation and effectiveness of this organization. A few reflections on the policy process are drawn from this analysis, albeit in a tentative form given the relatively limited period of time considered here.

Publication Date:

01/09/2009

Author(s): Franois Molle, Chu Thai Hoanh

Source: International Water Management Institute

Tags:

Water Resources, Water Management, Water Policy, Governance, Vietnam, River Basin

Water Supply