Consequently, in 2014, he launched ‘Eco-Friendly Water Retention Polymer’ with an aim to resolve water scarcity crisis.
This young boy while telling more about his startup said, “We made the product out of bio-wastes that not only prevents from soil and water pollution, but also gives high nutrition to the crops after slowly disintegrating in the soil.
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The Eco-Friendly Water Retention Polymer is actually made from natural bio-waste extracts that have water absorption properties, which makes it perfect for use in such water-scarce regions.
The young boy further explained that it took around 30 days to process the raw material into the final product.
He added “We charge an average of Rs 120/kg for nurseries and other areas that need water management.
At present, the startup is supplying its product to farmers, nurseries, vertical agriculturists and horticulturists in Udaipur and Rajsamand village.
Currently, Narayan is studying at College of Technology and Engineering in Udaipur, where he met the other two members of his startup.
Rajasthan government after seeing value in the product has invested Rs 1 crore in the startup, which the company will be using to set up machinery for mass production.
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Balochistan Governor Justice (retd) Amanullah Khan Yasinzai seek out China’s collaboration, technical assistance and valuable expertise for resolution of water scarcity issues in the province and Gwadar in particular.
QUETTA, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 29th Oct, 2018 ) :Balochistan Governor Justice (retd) Amanullah Khan Yasinzai seek out China’s collaboration, technical assistance and valuable expertise for resolution of water scarcity issues in the province and Gwadar in particular.
Governor Justice (retd) Amanullah Khan Yasinzai expressed these views at the conference of Asian Parliamentary Assembly’s Committee on Political Affairs, held in Gwadar today.
Governor appreciated efforts made by Chairman Senate Pakistan Sadiq Sanjrani and his team on stepping ahead all challenges and organizing this mega event.
The governor said that ensuring mutual cooperation for boosting economic activities is need of the hour, China Pakistan Economic corridor (CPEC) project is playing vital role to uplift economy of the region.
The governor said that timely completion of CPEC would transform Pakistan into centre of the trade and would led to the international recognition of Balochistan’s geostrategic location.
"CPEC would serve as a line of sustainable development bringing prosperity at the door step of the people through transit trade and transhipment facilities", he said.
The governor further said that both Pakistan and Balochistan would witness massive economic activities in future.
The governor emphasized to utilize the vast opportunities created by CPEC through collective measures at regional level.
There exist solid bilateral ties between Pakistan and China, He added.

Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Ali Muhammad Khan told the House that the federal government has formed a task force under the Sindh Governor to address water scarcity and other important issues in Karachi.
The Minister of State said the federal government is also implementing a project of two billion rupees for clean drinking water in Islamabad.
The Minister said dams need to be constructed in FATA and Balochistan to meet water requirement in those areas.
Earlier, PML-N leader said the PML-N government had formed a water policy, and also allocated funds for K-4 project in Karachi and several schemes for Islamabad.
He said Karachi needs 1200 Cusec water, which is not being provided.
Minister for Religious Affairs Nurul Haq Qadri led the prayers.
The opposition members staged walk-out from the House when PML-N leader Rana Tanveer Hussain raised point that Leader of the Opposition Shahbaz Sharif was not produced in the House so far by the National Accountability Bureau despite issuance of Production Order by the Speaker.
Taking floor of the House, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said the opposition should behave responsibly because boycott of the National Assembly session is no service to democracy.
Shah Mehmood Qureshi said the Leader of the Opposition had attended the last session, and the government has no objection to his presence in the assembly.
The newly elected members of the National Assembly took oath as members of the House.

With India largely dependent on tempestuous monsoons to meet its water needs, a prolonged drought caused by climate change has always been a clear and present danger.
With a government think-tank warning that major Indian cities are in danger of running out of water by 2020, The Sunday Times looks at the various ways the residents of Bengaluru and the authorities are working to ensure the city’s water security.
The spectre of a prolonged dry spell caused by climate change hangs ominously over India, a country that has seen droughts kill millions of people.
India depends almost entirely on the vagaries of rainfall to provide water to its citizens.
That’s why although this year’s south-west monsoon kicked off with a bang – causing massive flooding and deaths in the southern states like Kerala – there is serious cause for concern about water scarcity after it ended with a whimper.
What’s more, 12 of the country’s 36 meteorological sub-divisions experienced "deficient" rainfall.

PESHAWAR: Hundreds of thousands of orchards and agricultural lands are fast becoming barren in the plains of Peshawar division after being hit by severe water scarcity due to indifferent attitude of those at the helm of affairs.
The farmers and landowners belonging to various villages, including Haryana, Nasapa, Nahaqi, Shakarpura, Daman-e-Afghani staged a protest rally on Charsadda Road to press the authorities concerned to take steps for coping with the water shortage that has caused huge losses to the dwellers of these areas.
The protestors threatened to besiege the office of irrigation minister and his secretary if steps were not taken to ensure timely supply of irrigation water in the areas where the standing crops of wheat, sugarcane, maize and orchards of pears, apricots, and persimmon (Japanese fruit) have badly been affected.
Abdul Mateen, Town-II council member, told The News on the occasion that they had been facing severe shortage of irrigation water for the last several years, due to which many moderate land-owning families have lost their sustenance.
He said these families had started selling out their lands in these areas where unplanned housing schemes had been launched, which posed serious threat to the government planning and local populations.
The town member added that they were pooling their resources to arrange water for their crops on their own for years now.
However, it has now become impossible for them to make irrigation water available for their crops anymore.
He informed that they had held meetings with the relevant authorities including the secretary irrigation and apprised them of the situation, but so far nothing was done in this regard.
Abdul Mateen said the farmers have decided to hold sit-ins in front of provincial assembly, Peshawar Press Club and secretary irrigation office if the irrigation water supply issue was not resolved at the earliest.

San Francisco, California, October 26, 2018: TMR Research states that the global water well drilling equipment market is expected to witness growth in the coming years as water continues to a scarce commodity.
The research report, titled “Water Well Drilling Equipment Market – Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends, and Forecast 2018 – 2028”.
The depleting sources of water and rising rate of water pollution is projected to augment the sales of water drilling equipment, which essential for drilling water wells for ground water reserves.
Get Sample Copy of this Report @ https://www.tmrresearch.com/sample/sample?flag=B&rep_id=4032 The global market for water well drilling equipment is expected to rise in the coming years due to varying geological structures.
Technological advancements in drilling methods and growing demand for drinking water are projected to encourage market growth.
Improvements in design that allow efficient drilling are expected to up market growth in the near future, predicts research report.
Fast-paced industrialization and stabilization of economies across North America are also projected to contribute the region’s rising revenue.
Rising population and scarcity of water in hot regions of Asia Pacific are also expected to trigger the regional market’s growth in the near future.
Rise of building and construction is also projected to aid the regional market’s growth during forecast period.
Read Comprehensive Overview of Report @ https://www.tmrresearch.com/water-well-drilling-equipment-market The leading players operating in the global water well drilling equipment market are SIMCO Drilling Equipment, Inc., Kejr, Inc., Velson Industries, Jewett Construction Co. Inc., Dando Drilling International Ltd., Hydra-Fab Manufacturing, Inc., Shandong Machinery Group Co. Ltd., and Wuxi Jinfan Drilling Equipment Co. Ltd.

Industry and researchers will explore new ways to recycle wastewater through the use of smart technologies at a new centre.
More of Perth’s water supply could soon come from treated wastewater as part of a new innovation hub launched this week to tackle the state’s water shortage.
The city already derives almost half its water through desalination and groundwater replenishment, since Western Australia in 2016 became the first state to use recycled wastewater as drinking water in response to its profound climate-induced water shortage.
But there are new efforts to further increase the state’s water supply by exploring new ways to recycle wastewater through the use of smart technologies.
Dr Qianhong She, an expert in wastewater management at the University of Sydney, told Government News that technological innovation is very important to ensuring the sustainable management of wastewater in Australia.
“To address the issues of water scarcity in Australia, wastewater recycling is one of the most sustainable ways in addition to seawater desalination,” he said.
So some important aspects for the government to think about when consulting with technology providers are the cost, maximum water recovery and footprint, in addition to the product water quality,” Dr She said.
“Innovative approaches to water recycling offer the opportunity to keep costs down for customers and mitigate climate change impacts at the same time,” Dr Khan told Government News.
“All state governments should be as focused as the Western Australia Government on developing the water supply solutions of the future: those which can provide reliable safe drinking water at low cost and low carbon footprint,” he said.
If you have a news story or tip-off, get in touch at editorial@governmentnews.com.au.

The study found that water service has been cut off to an estimated 1.4 million people living in more than a half-million American households.
The cities with the highest shut-off rates, according to the report, were Detroit, New Orleans, Springdale, Arkansas, and Oklahoma City.
Among these cities, at least 10 percent of the residents had lost their water service for some period of time, and in Oklahoma City, the most impacted city, 23 percent lost their access to clean, running water in 2017.
In addition to climate change, the reasons water bill rates are going up so quickly also include aging infrastructure and declining populations, the report said.
How serious is water scarcity in the U.S.?
Mary Grant, author of the Food & Water Watch report, noted that households in New Orleans had to pay more than $1,000 for water service, which was about 9 percent of their household income.
Jaime Moten, 41, living in Oklahoma City, was quoted in CBS news saying that her water was shut off for three days in 2016 after she lost her job as a grocery store manager.
Relatives provided water that she and her children used to drink and brush their teeth, and the Salvation Army paid the $202 needed to turn her water back on.
"You feel like you’re sneaking water."
"There’s no excuse for the wealthiest country in the world to have citizens who have to live that way," said Tiffani Ashley Bell, a co-founder of the Detroit Water Project, regarding the report.

Underscoring the importance Israel has always placed on its water sector is its prioritization over other key infrastructure sectors.
By 2014, the same year California declared a state of emergency while reckoning with its region’s worst drought in 1,200 years, Israel became a water-surplus nation, able to export water to neighboring Jordan and Palestinian territories.
“I think in order to solve the crisis, the people of the world need to work together, and a country like Israel needs to be brought into that discussion more and more because of Israel’s vast experience,” Micah Smith, director of “Sustainable Nation,” a new Israeli documentary that follows three Israelis who are bringing sustainable water solutions to an increasingly thirsty planet using solutions developed in Israel, said in an interview.
“South Africa is the negative example in all this,” Smith said, referencing the country’s refusals to accept Israeli aid in the face of its water crisis.
“It’s tragic to see that people are putting lives at risk rather than bringing people together to solve the world’s water problems,” Smith said.
Smith said he made “Sustainable Nation” to tell Israel’s water story, one that people the world over can learn from.
Sivan Yaari, CEO of Innovation: Africa, an Israeli NGO, is one of them.
Her organization has brought solar-powered water pumps to hundreds of rural African villages.
Of her work, Yaari says in the film, “it’s still so small compared to the need.” Eli Cohen, also profiled in the film, is a prolific aquatic farmer trying to bring his revolutionary natural filtration methods to India.
The movie is also a way to show places like California that culture can be shifted as well.” “Sustainable Nation” will have a private screening in Los Angeles on Nov. 12.

GANDHINAGAR: The revenue minister said, "The state government has received demands from some MLAs to declare some more talukas "scarcity affected".
The government is reviewing these demands in keeping with the norms.
The government will also ensure that farmers or citizens do not face a problem due to water scarcity."
Meanwhile, Dalit leader and independent MLA from Vadgam, Jignesh Mevani on Wednesday demanded that his constituency be included on the list of ‘scarcity-hit’ areas.
Mevani threatened to launch an agitation for farmers’ rights if the state government does not include Vadgam on the list of ‘scarcity-hit talukas’.
"Why was Vadgam excluded from the list while nine other talukas of Banaskantha district were included?
The state government failed to follow the manual on drought, issued by the Centre, which lays down criteria for declaring an area as affected.
The government should tell us how many villages in Vadgam taluka have rain-gauges," said Mevani .