Kaski launches lake conservation plan
Good news for lake conservationists and aficionados alike. Authorities are pulling up their sleeves for the proper conservation of lakes in Kaski district. With a view to develop the municipal area
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Forest and water on a changing planet: vulnerability, adaptation and governance opportunities- a global assessment Report.
Water security is key to achieving the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Yet, increasingly the world is facing water shortages, and an estimated four billion people do not have sufficient
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Bandipur hit by water scarcity
With animals in the Bandipur National Park (BNP) facing hardship due to acute scarcity of water, triggered by a bad drought, the Forest department has started supplying water to the partially dried-up water bodies inside the BNP. Wild animals, particularly elephant, tiger, deer and bison, are struggling to slake their thirst as there is water only in 15 of the 282 tanks/lakes inside the Bandipur National Park. Acute water shortage has forced several animals to migrate to the backwaters. But, even that region is facing water crisis.
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Share Cauvery water with TN gracefully: SC tells K’taka
The Supreme Court today advised Karnataka to gracefully share Cauvery water with the lower riparian state of Tamil Nadu. “We want more gracefulness from the Big Brother,” a Bench comprising Justices DK
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Water bodies being filled in Sherpur town
Ponds and other water bodies are being filled brushing aside environmental aspects in Sherpur town, which graduated to a district town from a thana town even after the liberation of the country. Filling the ponds and water bodies, the residents of the town are making houses and other infrastructures.
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Govt asks tubewell owners to own up
The alarming rate of groundwater depletion in the city has prompted the government to track down illegal borewells and tubewells in the city but not through inspections or surveys. This time, the environment
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Aid to install rainwater harvesting systems for farm wells
VILLUPURAM: The State government has launched a scheme to recharge open farm wells by installing rainwater harvesting systems. To encourage farmers to do so the government is giving grants, according to R.Palanisamy, District Collector.
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Officials move in to clear illegal wells
Along the dry Amaravathy riverbed These wells were sunk for drawing and selling water for drinking purposes and industrial use Illegal wells numbering over fifty are found in Andankoil East and West, Pallapalayam
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Impacts of 25 years of groundwater extraction on subsidence in the Mekong delta, Vietnam
<p>Many major river deltas in the world are subsiding and consequently become increasingly vulnerable to flooding and storm surges, salinization and permanent inundation. For the Mekong Delta, annual subsidence
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Paucity of funds cripples river linking project
Work on the construction of a canal linking three rivers to provide water to the parched regions of two districts has run aground for lack of funds. The third and the fourth phase of work on the 73-km-long flood and stormwater channel, being dug to connect Tamirabharani – Karumaeniyar and Nambiyar rivers to take the perennial river’s surplus water to the dry regions of Tirunelveli and Tuticorin districts, has come to a grinding halt due to non-availability of funds.
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Winged visitors give the drying Sultanpur Park a miss
The seasonal wetland which once used to attract a large number of birds from Europe, Siberia and Central Asia has seen a decline, says a study Rapid urbanisation, impetuous management and extensive land-use changes in its catchment area over the past two decades seem to have taken a serious toll on the Sultanpur National Park.
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PM to discuss Punjab water row at meeting with Bansal today
Less than a week before the Supreme Court fixes a date for conducting regular hearing on the Presidential reference on the legality of the controversial Punjab Termination of Agreement Act, 2004, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is scheduled to hold a crucial meeting with Union Water Resources Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal and some senior government functionaries on Wednesday.
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Developing water change spectra and distinguishing change drivers worldwide
The separate and combined effects of different drivers of change to water fluxes and resources on land (CWOL) remain difficult to distinguish and largely unknown, particularly at a global scale. Our study
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Green tourism projects on anvil for Panaji
Panaji has been concretized in a big way over the last few years. The Goa tourism development corporation (GTDC), designated by the government as a special purpose vehicle (SPV), has drawn up a green
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Check dams to be built for water conservation
Check dams will be constructed on various water bodies in the district for conservation of water, District Panchayat President K.V. Dasan has said. Addressing a district-level seminar on water conservation organised jointly by various departments and local bodies here on Wednesday he said the dams would be constructed in co-operation with the gram panchayats.
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NEERI collects water samples from nullahs, Panchganga river
The National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) on Wednesday collected water samples from Jayanti and Dudhali nullahs and Panchganga river. A three-member team also visited the environment
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Karnataka mulls project to recharge borewells
Under a Central programme, sustainability works are being taken up on priority in over-exploited rural areas The Karnataka government is drawing up a new project to recharge borewells in the backdrop of over-exploitation of ground water, drying up of 50,000 handpumps and "life-less" position of 12,000 tanks in the state, Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister H K Patil said today.
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Villagers protest land acquisition for Tiruvallur reservoir project
Amidst opposition from villagers, the Water Resources Department (WRD) is looking to expedite the creation of a reservoir in Thervoy Kandigai and Kannankottai villages in Tiruvallur district to store and
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Conjunctive use of water in irrigation projects - Road blocks to implementation
Conjunctive use of water is always preferred from water quality, soil quality and water resources management points of view. However, it is observed that in real practice, it is extremely difficult to plan for the conjunctive use of water for different purposes and is more difficult to keep it in implementation for long.
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Panel Pours Cold Water on Industrialisation Spr
<p> BHUBANESWAR: At a time when there is growing opposition to diversion of Mahanadi water for industrial use, the recommendations of the Expert Committee on Revenue Enhancing Measures have come as a