Lawmaker repairs community on roads, sues for peace.
Ms Olufunke Adedoyin, House of Representative member from Kwara on Tuesday said the ongoing 2.5km road project in Omu-Aran community was to enhance infrastructure and socio-economic development in the state.
Adedoyin, who made this known during an on-the-spot-assessment of the ongoing Olomu Way Construction Road Project, said she initiated the project for the people of the constituency in Omu-Aran, Irepodun Local Government Area.
“Two most important things that the people are talking are the issues associated with the infrastructural development and water scarcity.
“So, I made the promise that we will first tackle the problem of roads, identify key road network for construction and rehabilitation in order to improve the socio-economic well-being of the people.
“And in choosing this 2.5 km road we are constructing, we get to know that it cuts across the three wards within the community.
Brig-Gen. Gabriel Ochingbano, the Commander Army, Engineer Brigade, Ibadan, while briefing Adedoyin on the project, promised its completion as scheduled.
Oba Charles Ibitoye Ibitoye, the traditional ruler of Omu-Aran expressed the community’s appreciation for the project, saying it was unprecedented in the history of the community.
Adedoyin, who had earlier visited the warring Ilofa and Odo-Owa communities, urged the people to imbibe tolerance, peaceful co-existence and be united.
“I am not here to inquire about the crisis but as part of my constituency, I deemed it fit to visit.

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Unsustainable water policies Delhi’s current water policy, instituted by the ruling left-wing Aam Admi Party in 2015, promises 20,000 litres of free water per household per month.
Assuming a household has five members, this means some 130 litres per capita per day should be available every day.
This plan is hampered by several basic problems.
In 2016, the Delhi Jal Board (the hindi word jal means water), which is responsible for the city’s drinking and waste water management, estimated total distribution losses of around 40%.
As a result, Delhi must actually produce daily 182 litres per person for individuals to receive their allotted 130 litres.
As the country’s middle class continues to grow, the need to build awareness of water as a scarce resource and instil conservation practices among the citizenry will grow more urgent.
The Yamuna River, near Delhi, is an important source of drinking water for downstream cities.
To fulfil such gargantuan tasks satisfactorily and develop a strategic plan for the future, a term of six to eight years would be more reasonable.
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City residents wait for rains to end water shortage.
The situation has been made worse by the Nairobi Water and Sewerage Company employees’ strike, now in its second week.
Services have been paralysed and normal water rationing seriously affected.
Water vendors have taken advantage of the situation to make a kill.
For seven months, Nairobi Water has been rationing supply, after levels at Ndakaini dam in Murang’a County dropped to less than 30 per cent.
“There is water stress in the city because rains have failed.
There is nothing we can do other than pray,” Mr Kimori told the Nation.
Mr Kimori blamed the defunct City Council of Nairobi for not investing in water infrastructure.
Workers’ union officials face the committee today to provide information on the “sale”.
On Wednesday, Nairobi Water chief executive Philip Gichuki will appear before the panel while the board will be quizzed on Thursday.

Adraft Ganga Act has reportedly been submitted to the Central Water Resources Ministry.
Uma Bharati, Union Minister, has directed to constitute a high-level committee to go through the report and submit observations.
Government has also formed a committee to look into problems of depleting ground water and intends to introduce a model law to address the issue of rain water conservation.
Incidentally, river and rains, both Nature’s gifts, are corelated as far as their management is concerned.
Rains, falling on lands, are drained into rivers running through the lengths of catchments and finally discharged into seas in natural drainage arrangements that keep the lands dry and habitable.
Out of total rain in catchments, a part is absorbed in land and the balance reaches the rivers, the quantum being dependent on a factor called “run off coefficient” that differs from catchment to catchment depending on their land characteristics, like soil, slope, shape, topography, surface vegetation and forest cover and in addition, on nature’s phenomena like temperature, wind and intensity of rain during rainfall.
Loss of rain water, an annual gift of nature for sustenance of life on earth, is at the root of water woes to people and has to be stopped.
Also, control of rivers through dams/barrages in order to use them as water storages which act as supply heads to man-made irrigation/river link canals, gradually dries them up at their downstream ends, two glaring examples being the present condition of Damodar and Teesta rivers.
Induction of breach-resistant side embankments in rivers is a technique that can prevent discharge of land rains and pollutants into them and along with it a ‘no obstruction across the river channels policy’ by law, will ensure protection to their geophysical characteristics.
Apart from saving rain water, man’s only source of sweet water, from losses to enable its harvesting as well as protecting a channel’s geophysical characteristics for their survival, the other benefits accrued from induction of breach resistant embankments are (a) flood prevention to alleviate people’s distress and save public money wasted in flood relief; (b) maintaining purity of river flows to ensure source of good water supply to river valleys; (c) stoppage of entry and deposit of eroded land surface soil that affects stable drafts, necessary for inland water transport; (d) less erosion and bank protection as the rivers flow in their natural courses; (e) improved ground water quality with regard to its arsenic/fluride contents by recharging them with conserved rain water and (f) end of disputes amongst states over sharing of water of national rivers flowing through them.

Water scarcity: Shadipora residents appeal MLA.
Srinagar—The residents of Shadipora, Sumbal Sonawari are facing tremendous hardship without drinking water supply in mohalla Ali Abad Trigam for past several years.
According to locals last year Public Health Engineering Department (PHE) had laid water pipes in the area but our mohalla was deprived due to unknown reasons.
“We are gasping for water particularly during these hot days.
We urge the local MLA to look into the matter and direct the concerned authorities to take necessary measures to ensure that we get the drinking water,” said a Mushtaq Ahmad Reshi a local resident.
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​Sircilla: The sustenance of the mankind is dependent on the plants that we grow and sufficient amount of rainfall can be witnessed in an area, where there is 33 per cent of forest wealth, stated District Collector D Krishna Bhaskar.
He, along with Joint Collector Yasmine Basha and District Revenue Officer Shyam Lal Prasad, distributed saplings to the people, who attended the Grievance Day at the Collectorate here on Monday.
Speaking on the occasion, the Collector said that due to lack of enough percentage of forests and plants on the earth, the people have to face water scarcity due less amount of rainfall, which may further lead to famine.
Due to massive deforestation, the agriculture sector is in turmoil.
Scarcity of water is one main reason for the farmers to incur heavy losses and unable to bear the financial burden, many of the farmers were ending their lives.
Deforestation also effected bio-diversity.
To prevent the condition becoming worse and to restore the lost forest wealth, Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao introduced the prestigious project Telanganaku Haritha Haram in the State, informed the Collector.
The government is taking all measures to increase the forest cover from the present 24 percent to 33 per cent in the district, by planting about 80 lakh saplings during the n third phase of Haritha Haram programme, he explained.
District Welfare Officer Saraswathi, District SC Development Officer E Rajeshwari and District Public Relation Officer Mamindla Dasharatham were present along with others.
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The millennium drought has broken but good water habits have persisted in Melbourne and Brisbane, where residents use about half the amount of water used by Perth residents.
Monash University researchers studying water consumption in water-sensitive cities over the past 14 years have found residents in Melbourne to be the country’s most prudent, while Perth has emerged as the most profligate.
The results will be presented this week at the Ecocity World Summit in Melbourne, an international forum headlined by former US vice-president Al Gore addressing issues relating to planning, cities and the environment.
Australia is considered to be at high risk of water scarcity, withdrawing 40 to 80 per cent of water relative to the available annual renewable supply.
“People saw quite a browning off of the suburbs … people couldn’t water lawns, and so that’s fed into the cultural imagination,” Dr Lindsay said of Melbourne and Brisbane during the drought from 2006 and 2010.
The study tested more than 5000 families and households and found Melbourne residents were still conscious of their water use after drought and accepted water-saving as part of city life.
“We live in the inner city and the drought didn’t really affect us, but now that we’ve got a garden we wanted something that would survive a drought,” Melbourne resident Susie Singh said from her largely paved garden in the heart of Melbourne.
“People just sink bores,” Dr Lindsay said.
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‘Sustainable water sharing key to common prosperity’.
With the rising tide of global warming creating greater uncertainties over our water management, developed and developing countries should come together to prevent the tragedy of the commons and search for sustainable solutions affecting their common future, according to a renowned academic expert on the issue.
“The problems are manifold, but fundamentally speaking we are not using water the way we should be,” said professor Ashok Swain of Uppsala University in Sweden in an interview with The Korea Herald in Seoul on June 29.
The problem lies in our understanding of how to manage water.” Many powerful countries like the US, China and India — the so-called “hydro hegemons” — exploit their power and upstream locations to use water disproportionately and sow instability in regional politics to their advantage, he said, calling it “a very selfish and nearsighted approach.” Swain is the director of the Centre for International Water Cooperation and Department of Peace and Conflict Research at the university.
“It’s going against sustainable development.
It is also critical to create water-specific legal and institutional frameworks to enforce adherence to principles, the professor advised.
The first step would be creating a river basin-based or basin-specific agreement, as water-sharing accords have generally been successful and resilient over time, even between hostile parties.
Nevertheless, a global principle will help.
The Baltic Sea had been polluted from contaminants flowing from Russia and former Soviet Republic countries.
Swain also pinned his hope on the next generation of diplomats, whom he viewed as more regionally and globally minded, as opposed to being tunnel-visioned by national interests.