After its disastrous management of the city’s flooding spots last year, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to increase the number of de-watering pumps to be installed in various areas to prevent inundation during the monsoon season.   Among the 244 de-watering pumps to be placed across Mumbai, 24 pumps will be stationed at each of the city’s ward offices as a stand-by. “Last year, we got complaints from many areas that the number of…

Displaying government’s resolve to mitigate the challenge of acid mine drainage (AMD) in Gauteng’s Witwatersrand, South Africa’s Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa in March attended the lowering of AMD pumps at the Witwatersrand Central basin, which is said to be one of the highest AMD-affected areas in the province. Located below the greater part of the City of Johannesburg, the Central basin has been the subject of debate regarding the impact of AMD on…

A group from Leixlip Town Council’s town improvments sub-committee and the Tidy Town Association have added to the street architecture of Leixlip. On 8 March, Denis McCarthy and Anthony Larkin were putting the finishing touches to a new flowerbed and pump at Gallavan’s Cross, where the old Maynooth road intersects with the Celbridge road beside Scoil Ui Dalaigh. The flower bed had been in hibernation for some time, having been orgininally located at the plaza beside…

An NGO has repaired a water pump that broke down four years at Waso area in Koija group ranch, Laikipia North subcounty. Kenya Charitable organisation spent Sh500,000 on the repairs. The pump serves more than 4,500 residents. The residents and their livestock have been walking for seven kilometres to the Ewaso Ng’iro River for water. SRC: http://allafrica.com/stories/201404211224.html