On the water front
A one-week delay in the monsoon’s arrival has laid bare the precariousness of India’s water situation. The images of thousands of Chennai residents running after water tankers were telecast by BBC and
Central Water Commission (CWC)
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U.P. may approach Supreme Court for Sone water: Minister
Threatens to “stop water from different sources going to Madhya Pradesh” Water dispute between Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh showed no signs of abating with the Irrigation Minister, Shivpal Singh
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Dual flush system may be made compulsory to save water
Seeking to save millions of liters of water per day across the country, the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) - country's national standardization agency that involves in issuing quality certification -
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State told to study retaining capacity of Wular Lake
Even as J&K is in the process of pr\eparing a Detailed Project Report (DPR) for a new flood spill channel from Dogripora in south Kashmir to Wular in north Kashmir for preventing floods, the Central Water
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Centre appoints task-force to help build consensus on river inter-linking
The Centre has set up a task force to look into various contentious issues relating to inter-linking of rivers. Role of this panel of experts will be to forge a consensus among states that are not on the
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Centre forms task force on interlinking of rivers
The Centre today constituted a task force comprising experts and senior officials to forge a consensus among states for the speedy implementation of the interlinking of rivers in the country. The task
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Uttarakhand accuses Centre of crippling state economy by delaying clearance of hydropower projects
The Uttarakhand government has accused the Centre of crippling its economy in a submission before the Supreme Court on Monday. The state government told the court that the Union environment ministry's
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Central Water Commission has no flood forecast system for J&K
The Central Water Commission (CWC) India’s leading water resources body which provides flood forecasts and predictions, surprisingly lacks flood monitoring system for Jammu and Kashmir. CWC issues flood
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Modern flood forecasting system in J&K still has weeks to go before it becomes operational
Jammu & Kashmir has been hit by floods a second time in the past seven months. But a modern flood forecasting system continues to elude this most vulnerable state of India. The Central Water Commission
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Andhra Pradesh to register protest with Centre, KRMB
Hyderabad: Unhappy with Telangana’s proposals to divert 100 tmcft of Krishna waters through two new projects, the AP government will be protesting to the Krishna River Management Board and the Centre.
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23rd of sewage from 118 towns flows into Ganga
More than twothird of the sewage generated by 118 towns located in the Ganga basin gets discharged into the river untreated, which makes Ganga rejuvenation an all the more arduous task. A recent study