YES BANK signs MoU with Western Railway to install water purification systems in 360 stations across Maharashtra, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh.
YES BANK, India’s fourth largest private sector Bank, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Western Railway to provide access to safe and clean drinking water in 360 ‘D’ and ‘E’ category railway stations across Maharashtra, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, as part of its flagship CSR intervention, ‘Livelihood and Water Security’.
The MoU, is part of YES BANK’s partnership with Indian Railways, to provide safe and clean drinking water at 1,000 ‘D’ and ‘E’ category railway stations across India by 2019, and will help YES BANK cover all such stations in Maharashtra by the end of FY17-18.
In the last two years, the Bank in partnership with Konkan Railway and Central Railway has setup water purification systems across 276 ‘D’ and ‘E’ category railway stations in Maharashtra and Goa.
YES BANK’s ‘Livelihood and Water Security’ intervention (since inception in 2014) has provided access to safe and clean drinking water to more than 50 million beneficiaries.
In FY14-15, the Bank deployed over 9,000 household water purification systems with the help of NGO partners in Raigad, Pune, Kolhapur, Satara and Sangli in Maharashtra.
In FY15-16, the Bank installed 150 community water purification systems at key locations including government schools, government hospitals, orphanages, old-age homes and local communities.
The Bank also provided 1,558, household water purification systems in Raigad.
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It is sad that a country like Ghana with her enormous water resources could not provide her citizens with adequate drinking water.
Statistics says more than 40% of Ghana’s 25 million people do not have safe water access despite an investment of roughly a half a billion US dollars over the past twenty years from the government and its development partners.
Several factors contribute to the lack of safe water access in Ghana.
Most Ghanaians rely on surface water and these sources have life-threatening parasites and high microbial content.
Communities, particularly in rural areas, also lack basic skills and the capacity to maintain the wells, hand pumps and other systems well-intentioned organizations have provided.
Business Day is calling on government to stand up to its responsibility and provide for the sector a special fund that must not be stolen.
Awareness of the inter-linkages between water and energy is expedient, just as we must focus on the broad range of issues related to the nexus of water and energy.
Our decision makers in the energy and water sectors should integrate into the global plan on the water-energy synergy to achieve greater economic and social impacts.
Our government needs to be more pro-active.
A multi-sector approach is needed to address inequities, especially for the "bottom billion" that live in slums and impoverished rural areas and have to survive without access to safe drinking water, adequate sanitation and energy services.

Since access to water has been recognised as a human right, the obligation to provide clean and safe drinking water across the globe has fallen on various government agencies.
However, over one billion people across the globe do not have access to basic water supplies.
Nearly half of the developing world’s population suffers from an assortment of diseases because water supply remains contaminated.
Since the mid-1990s, the privatisation of water services has been billed as the solution to providing water to people who do not have access to potable water in developing countries.
One such example is the movement against water privatisation in Bolivia.
The privatisation of water services has failed to bring water to the people in the impoverished city of El Alto, Bolivia where people have been charged for a basic water connection.
Most of these companies have been extracting water from a local aquifer either free of charge or at lower rates and are selling bottled water to consumers at relatively higher prices.
According to a report by the Pakistan Planning Commission, 61 percent of the households extract groundwater for domestic purposes with electric pumps and hand pumps.
The unplanned pumping of groundwater has posed serious management and equity challenges.
The government should play an active role in ensuring citizens get access equitable, clean and safe water.

Since access to water has been recognised as a human right, the obligation to provide clean and safe drinking water across the globe has fallen on various government agencies.
However, over one billion people across the globe do not have access to basic water supplies.
Nearly half of the developing world’s population suffers from an assortment of diseases because water supply remains contaminated.
Since the mid-1990s, the privatisation of water services has been billed as the solution to providing water to people who do not have access to potable water in developing countries.
One such example is the movement against water privatisation in Bolivia.
The privatisation of water services has failed to bring water to the people in the impoverished city of El Alto, Bolivia where people have been charged for a basic water connection.
Most of these companies have been extracting water from a local aquifer either free of charge or at lower rates and are selling bottled water to consumers at relatively higher prices.
According to a report by the Pakistan Planning Commission, 61 percent of the households extract groundwater for domestic purposes with electric pumps and hand pumps.
The unplanned pumping of groundwater has posed serious management and equity challenges.
The government should play an active role in ensuring citizens get access equitable, clean and safe water.

Wells of Life Partners with Mediaplanet to Fight Hunger.
Wells of Life is joining forces with Mediaplanet for their Tackling Hunger campaign to help raise awareness for those suffering from hunger and a lack of access to clean water.
Every 21 seconds a child dies from contaminated water.
About 40% of the world’s population lives in areas of water scarcity and there is a direct connection between lack of clean water and hunger.
Each person needs about 2.5 liters of water per day and, to put this in perspective, in order to produce enough food for one person for one day you would need 2,000 to 5,000 liters of water.
Founder Nick Jordan wants Wells of Life to unite all people across different religious, economic, and social backgrounds for the cause of providing people with the basic necessity of clean water.
"I saw the effects as I travelled across Uganda… most visibly in the daily suffering of women," says Jordan.
A Wells of Life well delivers clean water to a community for 25 years and each well that they build provides a new and better life for countless people across these areas.
About Mediaplanet: Mediaplanet specializes in the creation of content marketing campaigns released through multimedia platforms.
We continue to explore and expand our network of partners and clients through the shared interest of providing our readers the best experience possible.

Wells of Life Partners with Mediaplanet to Fight Hunger.
Wells of Life is joining forces with Mediaplanet for their Tackling Hunger campaign to help raise awareness for those suffering from hunger and a lack of access to clean water.
Every 21 seconds a child dies from contaminated water.
About 40% of the world’s population lives in areas of water scarcity and there is a direct connection between lack of clean water and hunger.
Each person needs about 2.5 liters of water per day and, to put this in perspective, in order to produce enough food for one person for one day you would need 2,000 to 5,000 liters of water.
Founder Nick Jordan wants Wells of Life to unite all people across different religious, economic, and social backgrounds for the cause of providing people with the basic necessity of clean water.
"I saw the effects as I travelled across Uganda… most visibly in the daily suffering of women," says Jordan.
A Wells of Life well delivers clean water to a community for 25 years and each well that they build provides a new and better life for countless people across these areas.
About Mediaplanet: Mediaplanet specializes in the creation of content marketing campaigns released through multimedia platforms.
We continue to explore and expand our network of partners and clients through the shared interest of providing our readers the best experience possible.

Wells of Life Partners with Mediaplanet to Fight Hunger.
Wells of Life is joining forces with Mediaplanet for their Tackling Hunger campaign to help raise awareness for those suffering from hunger and a lack of access to clean water.
Every 21 seconds a child dies from contaminated water.
About 40% of the world’s population lives in areas of water scarcity and there is a direct connection between lack of clean water and hunger.
Each person needs about 2.5 liters of water per day and, to put this in perspective, in order to produce enough food for one person for one day you would need 2,000 to 5,000 liters of water.
Founder Nick Jordan wants Wells of Life to unite all people across different religious, economic, and social backgrounds for the cause of providing people with the basic necessity of clean water.
"I saw the effects as I travelled across Uganda… most visibly in the daily suffering of women," says Jordan.
A Wells of Life well delivers clean water to a community for 25 years and each well that they build provides a new and better life for countless people across these areas.
About Mediaplanet: Mediaplanet specializes in the creation of content marketing campaigns released through multimedia platforms.
We continue to explore and expand our network of partners and clients through the shared interest of providing our readers the best experience possible.

Beyonce Partners with UNICEF To Provide Fresh Water to Burundians.
Through her initiative BEYGOOD4BURUNDI (BG4B), Beyonce will be supporting clean water programs, sanitation, and basic hygiene practices in the central African nation, which is currently engulfed in serious political and economic turmoil.
“Access to water is a fundamental right.
When you give children clean water and safe water, you don’t just give them life, you give them health, an education, and a brighter future,” the singer was quoted by WJLA.
“I am committed to helping drive lasting solutions to the water crisis in Burundi.” The two organizations plan to build wells that are fully equipped with hand pumps, provide hygiene education for locals, and improve water and sanitation facilities located in schools and health centers in different parts of the country.
The BG4B initiative was launched in 2013 during Beyonce’s music tour dubbed “Mrs.
Her partnership with UNICEF comes days after she and her husband, Jay-Z, a renowned American rapper, registered to trademark the names of their newborn twins Rumi and Sir.
The trademark application was reportedly made from the same California address as that of the couple’s 5-year-old daughter Blue Ivy.
Poor Management of Water In Burundi, a landlocked country, access to clean drinking water still remains a major problem.
Pundits argue that if the infrastructure was to be repaired, close to 70 percent of the population would have access to adequate drinking water.

Beyonce Partners with UNICEF To Provide Fresh Water to Burundians.
Through her initiative BEYGOOD4BURUNDI (BG4B), Beyonce will be supporting clean water programs, sanitation, and basic hygiene practices in the central African nation, which is currently engulfed in serious political and economic turmoil.
“Access to water is a fundamental right.
When you give children clean water and safe water, you don’t just give them life, you give them health, an education, and a brighter future,” the singer was quoted by WJLA.
“I am committed to helping drive lasting solutions to the water crisis in Burundi.” The two organizations plan to build wells that are fully equipped with hand pumps, provide hygiene education for locals, and improve water and sanitation facilities located in schools and health centers in different parts of the country.
The BG4B initiative was launched in 2013 during Beyonce’s music tour dubbed “Mrs.
Her partnership with UNICEF comes days after she and her husband, Jay-Z, a renowned American rapper, registered to trademark the names of their newborn twins Rumi and Sir.
The trademark application was reportedly made from the same California address as that of the couple’s 5-year-old daughter Blue Ivy.
Poor Management of Water In Burundi, a landlocked country, access to clean drinking water still remains a major problem.
Pundits argue that if the infrastructure was to be repaired, close to 70 percent of the population would have access to adequate drinking water.

Bottled water donations assist subdivision that has been without potable water for more than a year FARMINGTON — Since the San Juan County Office of Emergency Management issued a challenge to people to donate water to residents of the beleaguered Harvest Gold subdivision, local residents, businesses and nonprofits have answered the call to action.
A total of 15 pallets of water have been donated in the past two weeks, according to San Juan County Office of Emergency Manager Mike Mestas.
San Juan County is working on short-term remedies to provide people with potable water.
The Farmington third ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints collected bottled water through a water drive during a church picnic in a park Thursday in Farmington.
The ward donated more than one pallet of cases of bottled water to residents.
(Photo: Jon Austria/The Daily Times) "We have a great community, and the community cares," Mestas said.
The county is also trying to address the daily water outages in the Harvest Gold subdivision.
He said the county also is trying to get a water tank purchased for the subdivision using emergency funding.
Mestas said it will take time to get the pumps and tank to the neighborhood.
She can be reached at 505-564-4652.