blinkx.com RUKUM, June 17: Water scarcity has crippled the district hospital of Rukum, where dozens of patients for treatment every day.
With the water resources drying up in the dry season, the hospital is not able to manage even drinking water for patients and visitors.
According to Rajendra DC, chief of District Health Office, water scarcity is not a new problem in the hospital.
However, over the years, it has become more severe as the water sources have begun to dry permanently.
Khadka has been admitted to the hospital since the last few days.
The patients have suffer a lot in lack of water.
Since there is no water resource nearby, managing water in the hospital calls for a big, serious plan, he said.
“The cost goes very high if we for making water available in the hospital due to its remoteness,” he added.
A local of Aathbiskot Municipality, Shyam Bahadur BK, reported that the hospital does not let patients use its toilets due to lack of water.
The hospital neither provides drinking water nor sanitation.

Ukraine: 750,000 children at risk of losing access to safe drinking water, warns UN.
16 June 2017 – With the recent escalation of hostilities damaging vital water infrastructure in eastern Ukraine, at least 750,000 children are at imminent risk of being cut off from safe drinking water, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned today.
“Nearly three million people in eastern Ukraine rely on water infrastructure that is now in the line of fire,” said Afshan Khan, UNICEF’s Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia, noting that more families are expected to be cut off from safe drinking water, putting children at severe risk of disease and other dangers.
About 400,000 people, including 104,000 children, had their drinking water cut off for four days this week after two filtration stations for the South Donbass Water pipeline were destroyed by shelling.
Urgent repairs were completed yesterday evening.
In Donetsk, power lines providing electricity to the city’s water filtration station were damaged earlier this month, threatening more than 1 million people’s access to safe water.
Girls and boys having to fetch water from alternative sources, or who are forced to leave their homes due to disruptions to safe water supplies, face dangers from ongoing fighting and other forms of abuse.
“All sides of the conflict must allow urgent repairs when water sources are destroyed and immediately stop the indiscriminate shelling of vital civilian infrastructure,” said Ms. Khan.
Read more on: Conflict in Ukraine enters fourth year ‘with no end in sight’ – UN report UNICEF has provided access to safe drinking water to more than 1.5 million people in Government and non-Government-controlled areas of eastern Ukraine.
In 2017, UNICEF is appealing for $31.3 million to provide health and nutrition support, education, clean water, hygiene and sanitation as well as protection for children and families affected by the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

Ukraine: 750,000 children at risk of losing access to safe drinking water, warns UN.
16 June 2017 – With the recent escalation of hostilities damaging vital water infrastructure in eastern Ukraine, at least 750,000 children are at imminent risk of being cut off from safe drinking water, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned today.
“Nearly three million people in eastern Ukraine rely on water infrastructure that is now in the line of fire,” said Afshan Khan, UNICEF’s Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia, noting that more families are expected to be cut off from safe drinking water, putting children at severe risk of disease and other dangers.
About 400,000 people, including 104,000 children, had their drinking water cut off for four days this week after two filtration stations for the South Donbass Water pipeline were destroyed by shelling.
Urgent repairs were completed yesterday evening.
In Donetsk, power lines providing electricity to the city’s water filtration station were damaged earlier this month, threatening more than 1 million people’s access to safe water.
Girls and boys having to fetch water from alternative sources, or who are forced to leave their homes due to disruptions to safe water supplies, face dangers from ongoing fighting and other forms of abuse.
“All sides of the conflict must allow urgent repairs when water sources are destroyed and immediately stop the indiscriminate shelling of vital civilian infrastructure,” said Ms. Khan.
Read more on: Conflict in Ukraine enters fourth year ‘with no end in sight’ – UN report UNICEF has provided access to safe drinking water to more than 1.5 million people in Government and non-Government-controlled areas of eastern Ukraine.
In 2017, UNICEF is appealing for $31.3 million to provide health and nutrition support, education, clean water, hygiene and sanitation as well as protection for children and families affected by the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

With the swipe of a smart card, he buys 20 litres of clean drinking water for Rs 5.
The rural entrepreneur selling the water, earns up to Rs 9,000 per month.
Through a single intervention — an ATM-like iJal Station, US-based Safe Water Network, SWN, ensures the availability of potable water, and a viable livelihood opportunity for some of India’s poorest and most disempowered communities.”Our aim is to create easily replicable models of drinking water enterprise, not just in India, but anywhere in the world where people don’t have access to safe drinking water,” says Founder and CEO of SWN, Kurt Soderlund.
Since they began work in India eight years ago, SWN has set up 187 iJal stations across the country, with 172 in Telangana alone.
“We have conducted massive outreach programs, trained station operators to be safe water advocates and improved the branding and signage at our safe water stations,” says Poonam Sewak, vice president (knowledge and partnerships) at SWN.
This is because the effects of drinking clean water on people’s health and well-being become palpable in a few months alone.
Indeed, their focus on providing safe and affordable drinking water is crucial to public health.
Water and sanitation-related illnesses account for 70-80 per cent of the country’s diseases.
Over 100 million people in India still lack access to clean drinking water.
As SWN creates new corporate linkages and grows its clusters of iJal stations, it could signal the beginning of an important social revolution in the country — one drop of safe drinking water at a time.

He warned the group that by 2050, we won’t have enough fresh water for the people who need it.
The UN, and other global organizations, have been warning us of water shortages by 2050 for years — if not decades.
Among other statements, then-UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon warned of water shortages in 2050 and the risk of conflict in November 2016.
In 2010, the UN Environmental Program (UNEP) called for lowering consumption of meat and dairy to protect future water reserves, stating that the population of nine billion people expected in 2050 cannot eat the way we do now and have enough water for everyone.
A full 16 years ago, in 2001, the UN Population Fund warned that the world will begin to run out of fresh water by 2050, and UNFPA’s World Population Report from 1992 also warns of water shortages by 2050.
Water shortages bring health risks beyond the danger of violent conflict over water resources.
In addition to conflict and hunger, water shortages bring disease.
Fairer, more equitable cooperation between countries would reduce the number of people in poor countries left without access to clean water.
This makes more of our existing water supplies available for human use like bathing and drinking.
It’s a rare global health problem that has an obvious individual response, but global water scarcity is one of them.

East Ukraine fighting imperils water access for 750,00. children: UN kiev, Jun 16 At least 750,000 children in eastern ukraine are at imminent risk of losing access to safe water supplies after a surge in fighting between the government and separatist rebels, a UN report said today.
Approximately 400,000 people, including 104,000 children, had their drinking water cut off for four days this week after two filtration stations for the regional pipeline were destroyed by shelling, the UN International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) said.
Urgent repairs were completed only Thursday evening, it added.
"Nearly three million people in eastern Ukraine rely on water infrastructure that is now in the line of fire," said Afshan Khan, the agency’s regional director for Europe and Central Asia.
"We expect more families will be cut off from safe drinking water, putting children at severe risk of disease and other dangers."
The latest clashes between government troops and Russia- backed rebels reportedly killed ten Ukrainian soldiers over the past week, while schools, hospitals and basic infrastructure were seriously damaged.
In the rebels’ de facto capital of Donetsk, power lines serving the city’s water filtration station were hit earlier this month, threatening access to clean water for more than one million people, the report said.
Children who lose access to clean drinking water can quickly contract water-borne diseases including diarrhoea, UNICEF warned.
"All sides of the conflict must allow urgent repairs when water sources are destroyed and immediately stop the indiscriminate shelling of vital civilian infrastructure," Khan said.
More than 10,000 people have died and almost 24,000 have been injured since the pro-Russian insurgency began in April 2014, while 3.8 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance and more than 1.

DNREC to update community on ground water investigations at June GHADA meeting.
EPA to determine if the site warrants further long-term investigation and cleanup At the Monday, June 19 Greater Hockessin Area Development Association (GHADA) meeting, representatives from the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC), with support from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Delaware Division of Public Health (DPH) will update the public about the contaminated Hockessin Ground Water Plume Site.
The meeting is at 7 p.m., June 19 at the Hockessin Memorial Hall, 610 Yorklyn Road, Hockessin.
According to a press release, DNREC and EPA have been investigating contamination from volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in some ground water wells which supply the Hockessin area’s drinking water.
Public drinking water in the area is provided by Artesian Water Company, and is treated to remove VOCs.
The primary ground water contaminant of concern in the Hockessin area is tetrachloroethylene (PCE), most commonly used as a dry-cleaning solvent and industrial degreaser.
PCE, a VOC which can cause adverse human health effects, was identified in a commercial irrigation well, three residential wells, and several public supply wells in the Artesian Water Company’s Hockessin well field, according to DNREC.
DNREC has requested additional assistance from the EPA to help fully investigate the area, and identify the sources of the VOC contamination in ground water.
At the meeting, DNREC and the EPA will provide information on ground water well testing results for residential properties, along with 2016-17 environmental assessment work completed by EPA on ground water contamination in the area.
The EPA is using its Superfund authority and resources to determine if the site warrants further long-term investigation and cleanup.

Water ATMs plan shelved.
​Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) has shelved its grandiose plan to set up water ATMs, which proposed to provide drinking water at Re 1 per litre.
On an experimental basis a few ATMs were installed under the Secunderabad Cantonment Board limits and couple of other places which were found to be useful to quench the thirst of people particularly during summer time.
The Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB) in collaboration with a few NGOs set up 5 water ATMs at Bowenpally, Lal Bazar, Tadbund, Balamrai and Bolarum.
The water board had also set up two drinking water vending centres in slum areas near Indira Park and Karmika Nagar.
Further plan was to set up 200 such centres and hand over the maintenance to the Self Help Groups.
Yet, the water board has now decided to discard the plan as it feels that it was a difficult process to set up the units and maintain them.
The water board officials said that no such scheme would be executed in near future as drinking water supplies have been proven sufficient.
“The scheme was introduced as water scarcity persisted for the last two years.
With sufficient drinking water being supplied directly to every individual’s home, there is no need for such a scheme,” officials said.

Water level in NTR Jalasayam falls.
Chittoor: Depletion of water in NTR Jalasayam is a cause of concern as it is only the drinking water body which supplies water to Chittoor city.
Water levels have fallen drastically due to dry spell for the last three consecutive years.
Highlights: Chittoor city residents may face drinking water shortage Minister Amarnath Reddy assured of supplying Handri Neeva water to NTR Jalasayam To find a permanent solution for drinking water scarcity to Chittoor city, Chandrababu Naidu, who was the then Chief Minister, had laid foundation stone for NTR Jalasayam at Kalavagunta on September 19, 1996.
The project was aimed at supplying 8 Millions litres per Day (MLD) drinking water to Chittoor city every day.
The requirement of water for 1.4 lakh population of Chittoor city per day is 22 MLD.
Out of it, 8 MLD water is being supplied from NTR Jalasayam and the rest is being augmented through energized borewells in the city.
Due to shortage of funds, the Chittoor Municipal Corporation has suspended the transportation of drinking water in the city and has been supplying the water from NTR Jalasayam for the last 11 months.
“We can hardly supply the water to the city from the NTR Jalasayam for another month.
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ONWASA: Onslow drinking water not impacted by Cape Fear contamination.
The regional water system that provides public drinking water for most of Onslow County said the local water supply is not impacted by the chemical contamination found recently in the Cape Fear River in southeastern North Carolina.
“ONWASA is not interconnected with the Cape Fear Public Utilities System, nor can chemicals from the Cape Fear River migrate into ONWASA’s water supply,” the release states.
The StarNews has reported extensively on the issue and reports state the compound GenX has been found by researchers on three different occasions in the Cape Fear River, including in the Cape Fear Public Utility’s intake.
DuPont and spin-off company Chemours ceased production of C8 in the face of mounting legal challenges and a body of research indicating dangerous health effects.
ONWASA provides 2.8 billion gallons of water each year to 140,000 customers in unincorporated areas of Onslow County outside of the city limits of Jacksonville as well as the towns of Holly Ridge, Swansboro, Richlands (with the exception of a small section served by a private utility), and North Topsail Beach.
Unlike other systems that draw raw water from surface sources such as rivers or reservoirs, ONWASA uses deep, ancient underground aquifers for its water supply.
The deep aquifers have not been subjected to any known chemical contamination, according to the ONWASA news release.
Jacksonville’s annual drinking water quality report can be found on the city’s website.
Reporter Jannette Pippin can be reached at 910-382-2557 or jannette.pippin@jdnews.com.