Considering the huge fund requirement for the ambitious water project, the Centre is looking at innovative financing options such as public private partnership (PPP) and hybrid annuity model ...
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Water Crisis
Water Crisis
Citing successful models from across the country, the Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat encouraged all the states to plan for recharge and reuse of greywater generated from households for agriculture and irrigation purpose ...
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"Water has remained an under-invested category in our country resulting in many challenges, to solve which requires a long journey but we are not afraid of that and have started to move with rapid pace towards the goal of providing water to all," said Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat ...
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The recharge wells are the winning idea of Goa Institute of Management’s in-house 'Sustainability Hackathon' on water conservation and waste management practices ...
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Releasing the second edition of the Composite Water Management Index, the government think tank said that 80% of states assessed on the Index over the last three years have improved their water management scores, with an average improvement of +5.2 points ...
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The Waterman of India, Dr. Rajendra Singh who has transformed the drought-prone landscapes of Rajasthan into flourishing eco-systems, through indigenous water harvesting methods talks about river pollution, and aspirations to revive the dried-up water bodies across the country ...
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’99 per cent of the wells in Mumbai have dried up’, says 40-year-old Subhajit Mukherjee, a resident of Kandivali in Mumbai, who has come up with a cost-effective solution to conserve rainwater and recharge ground water ...
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Chief Minister K Palaniswami has announced that a Detailed Project Report (DPR) will be prepared for recharging water bodies in and around Chennai using recycled water
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Chandrapur is one of the hottest cities in the country and an NGO named ECO-PRO is inspiring people to conserve water in the city with a rainwater harvesting awareness campaign ...
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‘Jal Shakti Abhiyan’, a water conservation campaign has been launched by the centre with an aim to focus on 1,592 ‘water stressed blocks’ in 256 districts of India ...
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West Bengal Pollution Control Board chairman, Kalyan Rudra stresses on the need for water conservation, saying that groundwater has limited resource and overexploitation will lead to depletion ...
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In the first ‘Mann Ki Baat’ post re-election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged the citizens to conserve water and tap traditional methods for water management ...
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