Dr Smita Misra, Lead Water and Sanitation Specialist, South Asia Sustainable Development Unit, World Bank tells Garima Pant how empowerment of Panchayati Raj institutions and Urban Local Bodies can ensure better water and sanitation management programmes in the country.
Category: Water & Waste
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GOI appoints A.B. Pandya as chairman of Central Water Commission
Ashwin B. Pandya, has been appointed as the Chairman of Central Water Commission & Ex-officio Secretary to the Government of India. He was holding additional charge of the post since November, 2013. A graduate in Civil Engineering from Saurashtra University and post-graduate in Structural Engineering from IIT, Delhi, Pandya joined the Central Water Engineering Service in CWC in October, 1977 as Assistant Director.
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Seawater cooling
One environmental concern sometimes raised about seawater cooling is that it becomes a thermal pollutant. While this is likely true for once-through cooling systems, by using an open recirculation cooling system, you change the heat sink from the ocean to the atmosphere.
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Greywater STP at club mahindra site
Greywater, a Mumbai based specialised technology company that pioneers the next generation products for sewage and wastewater treatment announced the commissioning of 75 kld packaged GREWA-RS STP at Club Mahindra's holiday resort, located at Mahabaleshwar. The resort is located in a highly environmentally regulated zone of Mahabaleshwar.
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Transportation of treated water and wastewater is a major issue: Experts
The reuse and recycle of wastewater is becoming important policy agenda in India with growing water scarcity in the urban areas. However, lack of proper infrastructure for transporting wastewater to the treatment plant and treated water is a major issue.
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KBL installs largest water pumping system
Kirloskar Brothers (KBL) has collaborated with Tata Power and installed the world's largest circulating water pumping system for Tata Power's Mundra ultra mega power project (UMPP). A mammoth 10.5 million litre of water is circulated with the help of KBL's 10 concrete volute pump sets e
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Praj unveils new identity
Praj Industries has adopted a new identity in line with its future growth strategy. Over the past three decades, Praj has transformed itself from being a single business sector company of Ethanol Solutions to multiple busine
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Govt gives 30% aid to buy solar water heating systems
The Union government is providing central financial assistance (CFA) upto 30 per cent of the Benchmark cost of the equipment in Solar Water Heating systems and Solar Photo Voltaic systems such as solar lanterns, home lights, street lights and stand alone PV power plants.
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Water transport workers fret over dip in traffic growth
Over the negative traffic growth in major ports in the country, the Water Transport Workers Federation of India has expressed concern and said the situation is not a healthy trend at a time when the ports are adding additional capacities.
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Water transport workers fret over dip in traffic growth
Over the negative traffic growth in major ports in the country, the Water Transport Workers Federation of India has expressed concern and said the situation is not a healthy trend at a time when the ports are adding additional capacities.