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 …
M. Malleswara Rao HYDERABAD: Is Andhra Pradesh fighting a losing battle against Maharashtra in preventing the neighbouring State from constructing 11 barrages across the Godavari? This appears to be the case in the wake of an indication given by the Central Water Commission (CWC) to the Andhra Pradesh government that …
Overall flood situation in the State has improved a little today with the improvement in the weather condition. However, the water levels of the rivers are receding at a very slow rate, said sources in the Water Resources Department (WRD). The National Highway 31, which is under the floodwaters of …
Surinder Sud / Mumbai September 5, 2008, 3:13 IST The delay in the withdrawal of the monsoon is expected to benefit crops in the current kharif as well as in the ensuing rabi season. However, the projected increase in the intensity of rains in the north-eastern states may heighten the …
Surinder Sud / New Delhi August 22, 2008, 4:49 IST Monsoon took a long break in July in the interior peninsula, Maharashtra and parts of Gujarat and Rajasthan, Yet, the overall distribution of rains till mid-August has been the best in the past five years. As a result, worries about …
MONSOON WATCH Surinder Sud / New Delhi August 1, 2008, 22:15 IST Monsoon is back in almost all the rain-starved areas of the peninsula, Maharashtra and parts of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh. As a result, there has been a dramatic change in the overall kharif crop outlook. Conditions are turning …
Surinder Sud / Mumbai July 4, 2008, 0:09 IST The early rains were expected to give some impetus to kharif sowing. But the initial momentum has been lost due to wavering government policies on agricultural commodities and the weakening monsoon. The pace of sowing has also reportedly been affected by …
Considering the complexity of the problem and in order to compare the estimates, we have adopted a similar methodology for the estimation of water utilization as that of the NCA
The research account by Garg and Hassan on water scarcity in India is based on the tables and figures of the Central Water Commission (CWC), Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) and National Commission on Agriculture (NCA) which were published during 1976
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today stressed the need for establishment of flood forecasting stations in coordination with organisations like the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Central Water Commission (CWC) and the Meteorology department to mitigate the losses due to flash floods. An official release said that the Chief Minister today …
The Institution of Engineers (India), Assam State Centre, celebrates the Water Resources Day every year with active support and participation of several State and Central Govt. departments and organisations. This year the Institution is going to celebrate 23rd Water Resources Day in collaboration with Brahmaputra Board, NEEPCO Ltd., National Institute …
On February 15, the supreme court asked the Central Water Commission (CWC) to examine and submit a report on the nature and extent of submergence that the Polavaram project in Andhra Pradesh may cause. The ruling came on a petition by Andhra Pradesh which sought permission for the execution of …
Is the Rs 13,500 crore Indirasagar dam another Narmada in the making? Despite protests, the project is on. "It is a historic moment. Call it god's gift." Thus spake a buoyant Andhra Pradesh CM Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy announcing the environmental clearance granted to the Rs 13,500 crore Indirasagar project on …
Faced with a barrage of criticism from the Opposition that it has failed to stop Andhra Pradesh from going ahead with the construction of "unauthorised" irrigation projects in the Krishna and Godavari river basins, the Karnataka government is yet to decide which of the two options it must pursue: approach …
Andhra Pradesh's response to the Paragodu project has been multi-pronged - when the government takes the issue to the Centre and the Supreme Court, the political parties adopt the agitational approach. Andhra Pradesh views the Paragodu dam project as yet another attempt by Karnataka to deprive it, the lower riparian …
Even as floods play havoc in Uttarakhand, states have opposed provisions of this bill prepared by CWC in 1975. It provides clauses about flood zoning authorities, prohibition of the use of the flood plains, compensation & most importantly removing obstructions to ensure free flow of water. Model Bill for Flood …
