The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on National Lake Conservation Programme, 29/11/2016. The National Lake Conservation Plan (NLCP) has been merged in February, 2013 with another scheme of National Wetlands Conservation Programme (NWCP) to avoid overlap and promote better synergy into a new integrated scheme of National Plan for Conservation of …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on National Wetland Conservation Programme, 29/11/2016. The National Wetland Conservation Programme (NWCP) has been merged in February, 2013 with another scheme of National Lake Conservation Plan (NLCP) to avoid overlap and promote better synergy into a new integrated scheme of National Programme for Conservation of …
Kolhapur: The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) on Monday handed over Rankala water sample reports, compiled in the last three years, to the National Green Tribunal (NGT)-appointed experts. The experts, Upendra Patel and Nirmal Shah, are from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in Gujarat. They were on a two-day …
The Comptroller and Auditor General has said the Lake Development Authority and urban local bodies have taken up conservation and development of lakes in an "ad hoc manner" without proper coordination with each other. The results of performance audit showed that implementing agencies had taken up conservation and development work …
Encroachment, pollution contribute to steady degradation of the water body The slow implementation of Centrally-sponsored conservation projects, which were designed to lease fresh life to the Dal Lake, is contributing to the steady degradation of the picturesque water body. None of three key projects framed over the past decade to …
One of the major water bodies in Ranchi —Kanke Dam — that hitherto supplied water to thousands of houses settled around its periphery has been obliged with waste emanating from human activities concentrated around it and has put the reservoir under serious threat of extinction in the days to come. …
On her first trip to Udaipur since being sworn in as chief minister, Vasundhara Raje on Thursday lashed out at the previous government for pushing the state backward in terms of development. “Since Independence, Rajasthan had been under the governance of a single party for most of the time whose …
Minister for Urban Development and Urban Local Bodies, Nawang Rigzin Jora while presenting a comparison report of the measurements carried out by Sir Walter R. Lawrence in 1895 and the latest available data including satellite imaginary said that there has been no shrinkage in the area of the Dal and …
The Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) has the mandate, inter alia, to conserve/restore urban lakes/water bodies, re-use and re-cycle waste water, etc. These are important factors, some oft forgotten, and have been summed up in the “Advisory on conservation and restoration of water bodies in urban areas” by CPHEEO for …
This paper intends to evaluate the legal and institutional protection available for the conservation of urban water bodies in India and in other parts of the world, particularly in the developed countries. The paper will also explore the technical tools for the management of water bodies.
State told not to treat eco protection as a soft subject The State government has failed to implement various Centrally sponsored projects aimed at rejuvenating the Pampa, the Vembanad Lake, and the Kuttanad water system, N.K. Sukumaran Nair, Pampa Parirakshana Samiti (PPS) general secretary, has said. Mr. Nair told The …
The tackle the problem of water pollution, the Pushkar Lake will soon have a coir mesh treatment system. An alarming water loss is also being reported from the lake for which the administration will seek assistance of specialists from the National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee. At the meeting which took …
Works to rejuvenate polluted Kolavoy lake to be taken up under Central plan After several years of negligence, the much-abused Kolavoy lake, one of the largest water bodies in Kancheepuram district, might soon be rejuvenated. The lake, also known as Chengalpattu lake, will be the first water body in the …
Jaipur:The natural and manmade lakes in the state are at varying states of degradation and some have become history. Waking up to the crisis, the state government will now table the Rajasthan Lake Development Authority Bill, 2013 in the coming session of the assembly. The proposed bill would provide for …
Aiming at the holistic conservation and restoration of lakes and wetlands to enhance water quality and improve biodiversity, the cabinet Thursday approved a Rs.900 crore scheme for a new integrated National Plan for Conservation of Aquatic Eco-systems (NPCA). The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved the proposal for the merger …
To protect lakes from encroachments and ensure their upkeep, the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) will rope in corporates and non-governmental organisations (NGO) by floating a novel scheme - 'adopt a lake'. The lakes, located in the erstwhile Hyderabad Urban Development Authority (Huda) jurisdiction and outside the Greater Hyderabad Municipal …
Standing Committee on Water Resources (2012-2013) do present on their behalf the Sixteenth Report to Parliament on 'Repair, Renovation and Restoration of Water Bodies'. The Committee (2011-2012) took up the subject “Repair, Renovation and Restoration of Water Bodies' for a detailed examination and Report. The Committee were briefed by the …
Discharge of untreated and partially treated industrial and municipal wastewater from towns constitute major source of pollution in rivers and lakes. CPCB is monitoring water quality of various river stretches in the country including, inter-alia, River Ganga and Yamuna. Based on the monitoring, 150 polluted stretches have been identified along …
Water Resources Department attempts to rejuvenate contaminated waterbody under National Lake Conservation Plan To infuse life into polluted lakes around the city, the Water Resources Department (WRD) has recently submitted a proposal to the Ministry of Environment and Forests to restore these water bodies under the National Lake Conservation Plan …
