India needs to reduce non-revenue water: Japan International Cooperation Agency
MARGAO: Emphasizing on the need to reduce non-revenue water (NRW), officials of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), while speaking at the inaugural session of a two-day national workshop for reduction of NRW in India held on Thursday, urged the government to tackle issues in the water sector at the earliest. At the conference held at a resort in Utorda, Tomohide Ichiguchi, deputy chief representative, JICA India, said that they had 30 engineers from the PWD in Goa in non-revenue water management and its time that they should not sit idle but start action and take measures to reduce the NRW. "Weak financial base and political intervention are two major issues in the implementation of the project in Goa and the lack of asset inventory and management system are responsible for the delay in the JICA project," said Emi Doyle, JICA country analytical in the water sector in her opening remarks. Doyle added that practices in the state were time-consuming such as land acqu