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Chief Secretary Anand Bardhan Leads Meeting on World Bank-Funded Uttarakhand Water Supply Program in Emerging Areas

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 Dehradun
 (
 Uttarakhand
 ) [India], April 3 (ANI): With an aim to reduce electricity costs for tubewells throughout the state,
 Uttarakhand
 Chief Secretary
 Anand Bardhan
 Has instructed the Department of Drinking Water and other relevant departments to develop an action plan for installing solar energy systems by identifying unoccupied areas.
 
 
 The Chief Secretary further instructed that obtaining a groundwater level report should be mandatory prior to setting up tube wells, and this report must be provided to both the Drinking Water Corporation and Jal Sansthan for regions facing severe drinking water shortages.
 
 
 Chief Secretary
 Anand Bardhan
 presided over the 12th High-Level Committee (HLC) meeting on Wednesday at the Secretariat, focusing on topics pertinent to the discussion.
 World Bank
 -assisted
 Uttarakhand
 Water Supply Program
 (2018-2025) in peri-urban areas.
 
 
 The Chief Secretary has instructed to keep up the continuation of positive procedures under
 World Bank
 -aided
 Uttarakhand
 Water Supply Program
 (2018-2025) in suburban regions. He provided directives for ensuring 100% water quality, uninterrupted water supply, sustaining an efficient energy consumption level during pumping operations to conserve electricity, achieving high levels of customer satisfaction, and continually enhancing the system for addressing complaints.
 
 
 During the meeting, the Chief Secretary endorsed the final adjustments across multiple programs.
 Uttarakhand
 Payjal Nigam and
 Uttarakhand
 Jal Sansthan.
 
 
 It was stated during the meeting that the
 World Bank
 -aided
 Uttarakhand
 Water Supply Program
 The (2018-2025) initiative in suburban regions with a budget of Rs 1,042 crore is set to conclude on June 30, 2025.
 
 
 The
 World Bank
 'Ss contribution to the project is ₹ 834 crore, and the
 Uttarakhand
 The government's contribution amounts to Rs 208 crore. This initiative covers 22 cities and spans across five districts within the state.
 Dehradun
 Tehri, Haridwar, Nainital, and Udham Singh Nagar.
 
 
 As part of this initiative, the aim is to guarantee a daily water supply lasting 16 hours, maintaining a minimum pressure level of 12 meters, and benefiting 4.35 lakh individuals from the intended beneficiary group at an allocation rate of 135 liters per capita per day. The scheme includes installation of meters along with full cost recovery through volume-based pricing.
 
 
 Authorities from the water supply division reported that 22 projects have been finalized under the initiative, resulting in 1,08,755 new connections being issued. This represents a 24% increase over the targeted number set by the program.
 
 
 The
 World Bank
 Has shown total contentment regarding the execution of the mentioned project.
 
 
 The Secretary along with officials from the finance department, additional secretaries, and relevant department officers attended the meeting. (ANI)
 
 
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Chief Secretary Anand Bardhan Leads Meeting on World Bank-Funded Uttarakhand Water Supply Program in Emerging Areas

Dehradun ( Uttarakhand ) [India], April 3 (ANI): With an aim to reduce electricity costs for tubewells throughout the sta...

British Scientist Unearths Oldest Water in History and Takes a sip

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 A scientist who found the oldest water ever discovered on Earth decided the best course of action was, of course, to drink it.


 Professor Barbara Sherwood Lollar was leading a team of geologists studying a
 Canadian
 mine in 2016 when she made the remarkable discovery.


 The flowing water about three kilometres below the surface was between 1.5bn and 2.6bn years old, according to tests, making it the oldest
 water
 found on Earth.


 “When people think about this water they assume it must be some tiny amount of water trapped within the rock,” said Prof Sherwood Lollar.


 “But in fact it’s very much bubbling right up out at you. These things are flowing at rates of litres per minute – the volume of the water is much larger than anyone anticipated.”


 Upon tasting the
 ancient
 water, she found that it was “very salty and bitter” and “much saltier than seawater”.


 That was an encouraging sign, because saltier water tends to be older. In this case, where the water has been ageing for billions of years, it is hardly surprising.


 “If you’re a geologist who works with
 rocks
 , you’ve probably licked a lot of rocks,” said Sherwood Lollar.


 Her team also found that life had once been present in the water, by looking at the sulphate – the composition of
 salts
 – in it.


 “We were able to indicate that the signal we are seeing in the fluids has to have been produced by microbiology – and most importantly has to have been produced over a very long time scale.


 “The microbes that produced this signature couldn’t have done it overnight.


 “This has to be an indication that organisms have been present in these fluids on a geological timescale.”


 Fortunately, the scientist had no terrifying
 sci
 -fi movie-esq reaction to drinking the ancient water, and lived to tell the tale.


 The paper was published in
 Nature
 in 2016.


 
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British Scientist Unearths Oldest Water in History and Takes a sip

A scientist who found the oldest water ever discovered on Earth decided the best course of action was, of course, to drink it. Profess...