BARGARH : Carrying buckets and containers, hundreds of women in Bargarh Municipality and block areas took out a ‘Pani Padayatra’ demanding clean and safe drinking water on Monday.Displaying samples of unclean water, the women demanded that all water bodies in the area should be restored and revived to maintain the groundwater level.
Besides, an anicut should be constructed across Jeera river, they said.
The town is reeling under acute water scarcity as piped water is yet to reach all the places.
The womenfolk depend on a few functioning tube-wells in the area.
The agitating women said residents of Ward 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the Municipality are completely dependent on a pit dug on the bed of Jeera river which flows along Bargarh town.Gulapi Suna of Ward 11 said the water from tube-wells in the area is unfit for human consumption and is reddish in colour.
Similarly, residents of Ward 5 and 6 claimed that they are being forced to dig tube-wells for drinking water.The district administration should take immediate steps to provide drinking water to the residents soon.
If the demand is not met, they will intensify their stir, the women threatened.

“For the students in NNB, this was a massive research project,” Motta said.
“They learned a lot of investigative tools.
We had groups just looking at the history of housing developments in St. Petersburg to see which houses would be the best targets for our experiment.” NNB covers the historic African-American neighborhoods of St. Petersburg’s midtown area.
One of its major projects includes Midtown K-12 news – a program seeking to improve journalism and media education in schools in south St. Petersburg.
The Academy Prep Center of St. Petersburg is one of those schools.
Students who were interested in participating in the experiment could sign up for it through an after-school enrichment program called “Community Cares.” But before they could begin collecting water samples, students were required to research the harmful effects of lead in drinking water.
“They really got to experience science firsthand,” Manke said.
“I run samples all the time, so that wasn’t special or overly interesting for me, but the fact that students were involved – and not just college-level students, but middle schools kids that collected the samples and came and saw my lab – it’s always great to have kids come and see the lab and hopefully be excited about science.” Quinn found that lead was present in the water but at levels well below the EPA limit, which is set at 15 parts per billion.
“I always believe that when you’re a reporter, it doesn’t end when you finish the story,” she said.
I just hope that NNB has that figurative, fat notebook,” Perez said.

”You can use chlorine tablet but it depends on the water.
Chlorine tablet works 100 per cent for water from borehole.
But for muddy waters, if you use chlorine tablet, there will be first chemical reaction which will reduce the effectiveness of that chlorine tablet.
The water needs to be clean.
If the water looks muddy and you use chlorine tablet, it will not work 100 per cent.”
Achieving SDGs Yeo, who acknowledged that government had put on the table some efforts to ensure that WASH services are delivered to the people, urged state governments to adopt the federal government’s expanded WASH programme as part of the efforts to deliver WASH services in the communities.
He urged government to make policies that would facilitate access to improved water sources and sanitation, which will, in turn, help to reduce preventable diseases.
Meanwhile, NAIJ.com had reported the UNICEF on Friday, September 29 said an estimated three million children need emergency education support occasioned by the Boko Haram insurgency in the northeast.
UNICEF’s deputy director, Justin Forsyth, told journalists in Maiduguri that urgent interventions were necessary to address the situation.
Forsyth said that over 57 per cent of basic and post basic schools in Borno were closed down due to the crisis caused by the Boko Haram insurgency.

As part of its ongoing commitment to bridge the gap between depleting natural water supply and the increasing demand for clean and safe water, Metito, a global provider of intelligent water management solutions, calls to reinforce access to clean drinking water as a universal human right amidst extreme climate change unravelling an even more challenging global water scenario.
With 60 years of experience, Metito is at the forefront of the water and wastewater industry with an impressive project portfolio that includes over 3000 projects most of which are in the most arid regions in the world.
In celebration of World Water Day 2018, Metito is highlighting how companies must lead by example and play an active role in spearheading knowledge transfer about water scarcity, mindful water use and wastewater recycling and reuse.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), half of the world’s population will be living in water-stressed areas by 2025.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and WHO reported that almost 663 million people lack access to an improved water source.
These numbers can get worse with rising populations, urbanization and industrialization and with lack of sufficient knowledge among consumers about water scarcity, the importance of safe water access and the prospects of conflicts pertaining to water security.
This year, in the lead up to World Water Day, Metito said it continues to promote the importance of information dissemination and knowledge transfer on water scarcity, water safety and security as part of its CSR program which primarily targets school and university students.
Through this program, Metito hosts workshops, presentations and site visits where students are introduced to the latest water statistics and the concept of water recycling and reuse, challenging youth to improve the water situation in their country of residence and around the world, by changing their personal water consumption habits.
“We believe that knowledge is the most effective driver able to bring about positive change.
Tapping into the youth, their unrestricted thinking space and fresh energy, is the focal point to our CSR agenda,” Metito also partnered with Planet Water Foundation, a leading non-profit organization that addresses global water poverty by delivering clean water access and hygiene education programs, to construct and deploy a clean water filtration system, or AquaTower, in Montong Tangi, Indonesia.

”Dysentery can give you some time to take care of yourself but not cholera”.
“For a community like that, there is need for people to perform filtration or try as much as possible to boil it.
”You can use chlorine tablet but it depends on the water.
Chlorine tablet works 100 per cent for water from borehole.
But for muddy waters, if you use chlorine tablet, there will be first chemical reaction which will reduce the effectiveness of that chlorine tablet.
The water needs to be clean.
Achieving SDGs Yeo, who acknowledged that government had put on the table some efforts to ensure that WASH services are delivered to the people, urged state governments to adopt the federal government’s expanded WASH programme as part of the efforts to deliver WASH services in the communities.
He urged government to make policies that would facilitate access to improved water sources and sanitation, which will, in turn, help to reduce preventable diseases.
Meanwhile, NAIJ.com had reported the UNICEF on Friday, September 29 said an estimated three million children need emergency education support occasioned by the Boko Haram insurgency in the northeast.
UNICEF’s deputy director, Justin Forsyth, told journalists in Maiduguri that urgent interventions were necessary to address the situation.

New Delhi, Apr 5 (PTI) The government today informed Parliament that according to 2011 census, close to 27 per cent tribal population do not have access to safe source of drinking water and 75 per cent tribal households do not have toilets.
"As per 2011 census, overall 75 per cent Scheduled Tribes (STs) households in the country were defecating in the open.
Further 26.66 per cent of total tribal population in the country did not have access to safe source of drinking water," Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi, the minister of state in the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, said in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha.
The government said under the Swachh Bharat Mission, efforts were being made to provide access to toilet facilities to all rural households in the country.
The Mission was launched on October 2, 2014 to accelerate efforts to achieve universal sanitation coverage.
The ministers reply also pointed out that 10 per cent of the annual budget allocation is earmarked for STs and the focus was on community-based collective behaviour change by massive campaigning at national and state levels.
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“We are aware that there are people who are trying to beat the system, so we hope the fines will discourage them,” Mayor Georges Bourelle said.
If it’s a hot summer, for example, and a water meter is registering an unusually low consumption of drinking water, it is flagged and an inspector pays a visit to see if the (device) is properly connected.” The hike in fines also applies to people who contaminate the water system.
A homeowner will be fined $1,000 for the first offence, $1,500 for the second offence and $2,000 for a subsequent offence.
Buildings that are not individual residences, such as office buildings or commercial enterprises, will be fined $2,000 for the first offence, $3,000 for the second offence and $4,000 for a subsequent offence.
The bylaw on the use of drinking water gives city workers and inspectors the right to access private property to check drinking-water devices supplied by the municipality.
Fines have also been increased for people who contravene any one of the regulations listed in the bylaw, be it for watering the lawn outside of regulated hours, failing to equip an automated watering system with the required sensors or placing a watering device so that water runs onto a neighbouring property.
The fine for contravening a regulation for individuals is $100 to $300 for the first offence, $300 to $500 for the second offence and $500 to $1,000 for a subsequent offence.
The fines for other buildings, be it office buildings, businesses or multi-unit buildings, are $200 to $600 for the first offence, $600 to $1,000 for the second offence and $1,000 to $2,000 for a subsequent offence.
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Investments in water and wastewater infrastructure are working to eliminate long-term drinking water advisories on public systems on reserve and to prevent short-term advisories from becoming long-term.
They were: Finally, one drinking water advisory on a public system in Big Grassy River First Nation in Ontario became long-term on March 1.Indigenous Services Canada is working with the community on an action plan to restore safe drinking water to the community with projected lifting date of June 2018.
Quote "Everyone in this country deserves access to clean drinking water.
I am pleased to see a number of both long-term and at-risk short-term advisories lifted in March 2018, continuing the progress being made by communities and Indigenous Services Canada together.
We remain on track in our commitment to lift all long-term drinking water advisories on public systems on reserve by March 2021."
The Honourable Jane Philpott Minister of Indigenous Services Quick Facts Budget 2016 provides $1.8 billion over five years to significantly improve on-reserve water and wastewater infrastructure, ensure proper facility operation, maintenance, and support training of water system operators.
Budget 2018 proposes an additional $172.6 million over three years to help accelerate progress on lifting drinking water advisories, and to ensure more infrastructure projects can be completed by 2020 instead of 2021.
Since November 2015, 57 long-term drinking water advisories (those lasting one year or more) have been lifted from public water systems through the work done in partnership with First Nation communities and partners.
Thirty drinking water advisories were added during that same time.
Indigenous Services Canada is working to address both long-term drinking water advisories affecting public systems on reserve and drinking water advisories at risk of becoming long term.

The potentially cancer-causing chemical GenX has been detected in untreated drinking water in a small town that lies across the Ohio River from a Chemours plant near Parkersburg, West Virginia.
GenX was not detected in tests done by Chemours after it passed through the Little Hocking Water Association’s activated carbon water filtration system and then distributed to about 12,000 customers.
But in a notification letter to the association’s customers this week, General Manager John Hanning wrote that “there is a serious question as to whether the kind of carbon filtration used at Little Hocking will effectively remove any GenX before it enters your drinking water.” The Fayetteville Observer featured Little Hocking’s water problems in a four-part series last month about GenX and its chemical cousin, known as PFOA or C8, which was used for decades at the plant in West Virginia, and at Chemours’ Fayetteville Works plant near the Cumberland-Bladen County line.
DuPont responded by installing activated carbon filtration systems for Little Hocking and other nearby towns with contaminated water.
But high levels of GenX have been found in the Cape Fear River, in private wells and in public drinking water from Cumberland County to the coast.
No human health studies have been completed on GenX.
Afterward, the EPA became concerned that GenX had also contaminated water supplies in Ohio and West Virginia.
That’s far less than the 140 parts per trillion that North Carolina established as a health standard for drinking water after GenX was found to have contaminated public water supplies in this state.
Levels of GenX above the state’s health goal have been found in 190 private wells surrounding the Fayetteville Works plant.
In North Carolina, researchers are trying to determine whether GenX and a host of other contaminants can effectively be screened out of public drinking water supplies downstream of the Chemours plant.

Jamie Howell Staff Writer The City of Durham Department of Water discovered chemical contamination in Lake Michie and the Little River reservoir, two sources of drinking water for the city.
According to NC Policy Watch, the compounds found in the water were the perfluorinated compounds known as PFOA, PFOS and PFB at concentrations of 2.4 to 7 parts per trillion.
High exposure to these compounds can lead to cancer, hormone distribution, liver and immune system damage and thyroid changes.
The only of the compounds found in Durham still being used in production is PFB, but the others are a persistent part of our environment.
These chemicals have a complex synthetic composition which makes them hard to break down by natural processes.
According to the US National Library of Medicine, PFOA was used to make things like Teflon.
The side effects once consumed are increased cholesterol, increased uric acid levels and kidney disease.
GenX, the compound that PFOS, PFOA and PFB are related to, is found in water all over North Carolina according to the Associated Press.
NC Policy Watch states that it’s very expensive to detect these compounds, but scientists from North Carolina universities are working with lawmakers to fund an NC Emerging Contaminant Observatory, an organization proposed by Duke University Professor Lee Ferguson.
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