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Tirupur District
Digging deeper to cope with droughts
Posted on 01 Jul, 2019 09:14 PMIndia is witnessing the second driest pre-monsoon season in the last 65 years. As the country eagerly eyes the monsoon clouds, the delay so far has now widened the rain deficit to 43%.
Water and facilities flow better into cities
Posted on 05 May, 2015 01:35 PMSixty eight percent of India's population lives in rural areas but when it comes to facilities -- including the availability of safe drinking water -- cities and towns corner most of them.
Despite government funding, only 30% urban slums have toilets
Posted on 08 Jan, 2014 12:03 PMWelfare schemes not of much use to urban slums
Depleting ground water scenario of Udumalpet taluk, Tiruppur, TN
Posted on 01 Dec, 2009 04:18 PMUdumalpet taluk comes under Tiruppur district, a recently formed district of Tamilnadu previously under Coimbatore district. Udumalpet is the headquarters of Udumalpet taluk and popularly known as” Poor man’s Ooty” due to its cool climatic conditions.
Tirupur water supply and sanitation project - an impediment to sustainable water management?
Posted on 27 May, 2009 03:53 PMThis paper published on the International Environmental Law Research Centre (IELRC) website examines the reasons behind the new project and the institutional, financial and legal aspects of the Tirupur PPP.
It also examines important legal issues such as the right to water, competing interests in water, financing of projects, waste water management and the environmental consequences of the PPP. More particularly, it questions the wisdom of planning a water supply project that seeks to prioritize the needs of a polluting industry over the basic water needs of the region.
The New Tirupur Area Development Corporation Limited (NTADCL) is the first public private partnership, set up in 1995 primarily to supply industrial water to Tirupur, a major export centre for knitwear, in India. This water supply and sewerage project is also the first project to be structured on a commercial format; first concession by a state government to a public limited company to draw raw water for domestic and industrial uses and to collect revenues; the first index-based user charges and direct cost recovery for urban environmental services.
Study of Tirupur textile industry cluster - effluent load, disposal practices and possible options
Posted on 16 May, 2009 02:55 PMThe objectives of the case study by TIDE supported by Arghyam on the Tirupur textile industry cluster included:
Case studies from waste minimisation circle- an initiative by Ministry of environment and forests
Posted on 16 May, 2009 12:23 PMThe initiative aims at: