India
Islands of success
Sagar is an island at the mouth of the river Ganges where it meets the Bay of Bengal. Every year in January, about half a million pilgrims visit the island to worship at the holy Ganges. The hundreds of mobile toilet units standing on the empty festival terrain during the rest of the year are […]
Indian district sets up rural water supply service network
The district council (Zilla Panchayat) of Shimoga in Karnataka has established a rural water supply service network with “ round-the-clock” control rooms at district and sub-district (taluk) levels, the Hindu newspaper reported. Priority would be given to maintaining cleanliness around the drinking water supply units in rural areas. Officials had been directed to repair borewells. The sub-district control […]
