Jamshedpur Utilities & Services Company (JUSCO), India’s first comprehensive urban infrastructure service provider in the private sector, has re-dedicated its commitment towards providing “quality services for life” including water, power, infrastructure and public health.

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The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) will conduct its fourth snow survey of the season at 11 a.m., Thursday, April 1, 2010, near Lake Tahoe.

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Monday March 22 is World Water Day and UN-Water has chosen “Communicating Water Quality Challenges and Opportunities” as its theme. To mark the day, TVO will air a week of water-themed programming featuring the world premiere of the Canadian documentary Water on the Table, and encores of films that examine political, economic and environmental issues dealing with water quality and availability.

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A “Web enabled Ground Water Information System” was dedicated to the Nation on “World Water Day”. Jointly developed by Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) and NIC, the System provides ground water related spatial and non spatial data in seamless manner to the users through internet. This web system has revolutionized the whole concept of ground water information availability to the citizens as well as other professional organizations.

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The Department of Water Resources (DWR) will host a Town Hall Meeting to discuss the Perris Dam Remediation Project, March 24, in Perris, California. The event, co-hosted by Riverside County Board Chairman, Supervisor Marion Ashley, will be held from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. in the City Council Chamber, Perris City Hall, located at 101 North D St. The public is invited.

For more information, please visit: http://www.water.ca.gov/news/newsreleases/2010/032310perris.pdf

Investment in safe water will have high returns in ensuring a healthy ecosystem and human society, says a new report released today by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) during the global World Water Day celebrations in Nairobi.

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World Water Day, 22 March 2010, is a crucial moment in the fight against the global sanitation and water crisis that's killing 4000 children every single day.

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The United Nations will celebrate World Water Day on 22 March 2010 at the United Nations Conference Centre in Bangkok, placing special attention on water quality with the theme “Clean Water for a Healthy World’.

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The Department of Natural Resources and Environment announced today the availability of $250,000 in grant funding for water quality monitoring projects using Fiscal Year 2010 Clean Michigan Initiative-Clean Water Fund monies. Local government and nonprofit entities are eligible for funding and are encouraged to apply.

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The Model Bill on groundwater provides for establishment of a Ground Water Authority by the States/Union Territories to take up functions including issue of notification of areas for regulation of development and management of ground water, grant of permissions to extract and use ground water in the notified area under certain conditions, restrictions including mandatory construction of artificial recharge structures within a specified time and registration of existing users and drilling agencies in notified as well as in non-notified areas.

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The Contingency Management Plan/Frameworks(CMP) has been finalized by the Drought Management Division, Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture in consultation with various Ministries/Departments and CMPs have been circulated to State Governments.

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Government proposes to restructure the Brahmaputra Board by way of brining an amendment in the existing Brahmaputra Board Act, 1980.

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Central Water Commission monitors storage position of 81 important reservoirs of the country on daily basis and reports are provided to “ Crop Weather Watch Group” of the Ministry of Agriculture, which issues necessary advisory to State authorities for crop planning strategies.

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During the past one week, intense rainfall has been realized over many parts of the country, apart from the coastal strip. Many areas, especially in North Eastern, Western, Nyanza, Eastern and Rift Valley (North Rift and Central Rift) Provinces have therefore, experienced flash floods which have claimed lives and destroyed property.

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Shri Pawan Kumar Bansal, the Union Minister for Water Resources released a “Report On Deep Wells and Prudence : Towards Pragmatic Action for addressing Groundwater Overexploitation in India” here today. Addressing on the occasion, Shri Bansal said that the highly diversified occurrence and considerable variations in the availability and utilization of groundwater in the country makes its management a challenging task.

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The Ministry of Water Resources had drafted a model bill to regulate and control the development of ground water and circulated it to States and UTs in 1970, re-circulated in 1992, 1996 and 2005 to enable them to enact suitable legislation on the lines of the model bill.

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Shri Pawan Kumar Bansal, the Union Minister of Water Resources will release a “Report of the World Bank study and the technical assistance initiatives on Groundwater management in India”

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Ministry of Water Resources has not conducted any survey for assessment of impact of climate change on water resources. However, the Ministry of Water Resources has constituted a “Standing Committee for Assessment of Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources” under the Chairman, Central Water Commission (CWC) and studies related to impact of climate change on water resources have been taken up jointly by National Institute of Hydrology (NIH), CWC, Central Ground Water Board and Brahmaputra Board with participation of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, IIT, Kanpur, IIT, Kharagpur and IIT, Roorkee and National Institute of Technology (NIT), Patna and NIT, Srinagar.

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Five links under the peninsular component of National Perspective Plan (NPP) have been identified as priority links for building consensus among concerned states for taking up their Detailed Project Reports (DPRs). DPR of one priority link namely, Ken – Betwa has been completed on 31.12.2008. The same was sent to the Governments of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh for comments. The Government of Madhya Pradesh vide letter dated 19.8.2009 sent an alternative proposal for consideration.

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The Department of Water Resources (DWR) announces release of the Draft IRWM Grant Program Guidelines, Planning Grant PSP, Implementation Grant PSP, and Stormwater Flood Management Grant PSP.

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Kutch region of Gujarat is not considered to form a part of the Indus Basin as per the present available basin maps or the Irrigation Commission Report of 1972. The Government has received a representation from the State of Gujarat regarding allocation of the Indus water of Gujarat.

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Manual and electronic readings today indicate that water content in California’s mountain snowpack is 107 percent of normal for the date. This time last year, snow water content statewide was 80 percent of normal.

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Central Water Commission (CWC) is monitoring storage position of 81 important reservoirs spread all over the country, of which as many as 36 reservoirs are having significant hydro-power benefits with installed capacities of more than 60MW each. The combined live storage in these 81 reservoirs at the beginning of monsoon i.e. 1 June 2009 was 11% of their designed capacity and stood at 36% of designed capacity as on 25 February 2010.

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The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) will conduct its third snow survey of the season at 11 a.m., Wednesday, March 3, 2010, near Lake Tahoe.

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