Water Pollution

Challenges of sustainable water quality management in rural India

This article discusses the various components that impact effective water quality management in rural India.

Publication Date: 
15/08/2009
R. Srikanth
Current Science
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Tags:
Water Pollution, Groundwater Pollution, Water Management, Water Policy, Water Quality, Arsenic, Rural Water Supply, Drinking Water Standards, Waterborne diseases, Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission, Rural Sanitation, India
Water Supply

Piped water supply to Greater Bangalore: Putting the cart before the horse?

Cities in India are moving towards commercially viable models of urban water and sanitation delivery to fill the widening gap between demand and supply. Cost recovery through upfront beneficiary contributions is increasingly becoming a key consideration in the provision of piped water and sewerage.

Publication Date: 
15/08/2009
Lalitha Kamath, Malini Ranganathan, Vinay Baindur
Economic and Political Weekly
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Tags:
Cauvery, Water Policy, Water Distribution, Urban Water Supply, Water Supply, Water Pricing, Water Privatisation, Urban Sanitation, Karnataka, Bangalore (T), Statistics
Water Resources

Water rights and water allocation: issues and challenges for Asia

As governments across Asia are searching for ways to increase water security for rural and urban water uses, the need to articulate water rights and improve water allocation practices is rapidly becoming a priority issue to them. The process is made more complex by rapid urbanization, climate change, and other drivers of change.

Publication Date: 
01/08/2009
Jeremy Bird, Wouter Lincklaen Arriens, Dennis Von Custodio
Asian Development Bank
Tags:
Water Resources, Water Management, Water Policy, Water Distribution, Urban Water Supply, Water Supply, Governance, NGO, Asia, River Basin
Water Resources

Draft UNCCD water policy advocacy framework

The Secretariat of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) has invited comments on a draft Water Policy Advocacy Framework, which seeks to provide a framework for the Secretariat to advocate for the development of water resource management policies at country level.

Publication Date: 
01/08/2009
UNCCD Secretariat
Tags:
UNCCD, Ecosystems, Land Degradation, Desert Spread, Water Resources, Water Management, Water Policy, Water Quality, Drought, Water Supply
Water Resources

Drainage basin security: prospects for trade-offs and benefit sharing in a globalised world

The World Water Week in Stockholm is the leading annual global meeting place for capacity-building, partnership-building and follow-up on the implementation of international processes in water and development. Future-oriented, interdisciplinary and

Publication Date: 
01/08/2009
Stockholm International Water Institute
Tags:
Water Resources, Water Management, Water Policy, Drainage, Climate Change, Benefit Sharing, Governance, Rainfall
Water Resources

Looking for rainmakers

Good water-management policies are needed to cope with flood-drought cycles

Good water-management policies are needed for India to cope with flood-drought cycles, often in neighbouring areas.

Publication Date: 
31/07/2009
Sunita Narain
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Water Resources, Water Management, Water Policy, Drinking Water, Monsoons, Drought, Rainfall
Water Resources

Proposed State water policy evokes criticism

The proposed State Water Policy, in its final draft, has attracted strong criticism from the Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti, for favouring

Publication Date: 
23/07/2009
Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
Tags:
Water Resources, Water Policy, Dams/ Irrigation, Asian Development Bank (ADB), Arunachal, River Linking
Water Resources

 Dry spell depletes water in Chhattisgarh

Chief minister bans digging of borewells; mines flout the rule chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh has banned digging of borewells by individual households for a year. This follows a sharp decline in the groundwater levels in the state after last year

Publication Date: 
14/07/2009
Aparna Pallavi
Down to Earth
Tags:
Mining, Water Resources, Groundwater, Water Policy, Drought, Chhattisgarh, Kawardha (D)
Water Resources

Groundwater policy needed (Editorial)

IN 1985 Former United Nations Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali famously said that

Publication Date: 
08/07/2009
Tribune (New Delhi)
Tags:
Groundwater Pollution, Groundwater, Water Policy, Government Of India (GOI), UNEP, India
Water Supply

Concrete steps to tackle water crisis must

Expressing concern over prevailing acute water crisis in the state, the opposition today said in the Assembly that situation will become out of control if steps to control it are not taken in time.

Publication Date: 
08/07/2009
Central Chronicle (Bhopal)
Tags:
Water Policy, Water Harvesting, Drinking Water Scarcity, Water Supply, Madhya Pradesh

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