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 …
Odisha has declined permission to the proposal of a 54-km link canal for diversion of 85 million cubic metre water from Mahanadi to Tandula dam in neighbouring Chhattisgarh. The State government, in a letter to Central Water Commission, has objected to construction of a series of water reservoirs by Chhattisgarh …
Glaciers in the Himalayan region are retreating following climate change which can lead to water scarcity for the people living downstream areas. The depleting glaciers can trigger the Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOF) posing a threat to the sustainability of hydropower projects and adversely impacting water sources, people, livestock, forests, …
The Centre has said that it is planning to take up works pertaining to cleaning of the Yamuna river, in addition to the existing scope of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) project. Replying to a question in the Rajya Sabha, Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti said that in the …
Overall, nearly 52 lakh people have been affected till now. On Sunday, the Army joined the relief and rescue operations in the state. With fresh discharge of water from barrages and continuing high tide, the flood situation in South Bengal remained grim on Monday, as the death toll mounted to …
Visakhapatnam: The ministry of water resources, river development and Ganga rejuvenation (MoWR) has said that the lifeline of Andhra Pradesh, prestigious Polavaram irrigation project is scheduled to be completed by 2018. In a written reply to queries raised by Vizag MP K. Haribabu and Ongole MP Y.V. Subba Reddy, Union …
The threat of severe earthquakes in the Himalayan region close on the heels of the devastating one in Nepal, as indicated by several scientific studies, has prompted India to put hundreds of landslide dams or LSDs under constant monitoring so that they do not break with catastrophic consequences. The home …
The Central Water Commission (CWC) has been directed not to give permission for dam projects that hinder environmental flow of rivers, Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti today said. Bharti, who reviewed a joint presentation on 'Namami Gange - National Mission for Clean Ganga' in Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh, said …
DPR to be ready in three months, says minister Works on the KRS dam would be taken up in the next six months. As the century-old dam has been built using limestone, it has developed cracks. DH file photo The detailed project report (DPR) for the implementation of the Mekedatu …
A series of landslides triggered by incessant rains in the past three days have damaged houses and disrupted surface communication in Arunachal Pradesh with the state capital receiving over 100 mm rain in past 24 hours. Several houses in Niya Colony near here were damaged by landslides yesterday, while the …
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 Yadav, taking a tough stand on the neighbouring State’s move to deny U.P. its share of water from the Bansagar …
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 - has planned to amend the existing criteria to certify toilet's flush so that the attached cistern can discharge water …
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 Commission (CWC) has asked the state government to study the retaining capacity of the …
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 same page over the plan to link rivers across the country. The …
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 force would be chaired by BN Navalawala, adviser to the Gujarat Chief Minister on water resources development and …
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 delay in resolving the fate of a number of hydropower projects has reduced Uttarakhand from a power surplus state …
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 alerts and monitors the situation so that the states under the threat get ready to tackle with the flood like circumstances. However …
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 (CWC), a central agency which constantly monitors water levels of rivers across the country, has …
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. AP irrigation department engineer-in-chief, A.B. Venkateswara Rao, has already submitted a detailed report on this to the AP government …
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 by experts from different government agencies has concluded that the towns, spread across five states, generate …
In order to keep continuously monitoring and maintaining an accurate record of depleting levels of groundwater, the government is going to install automatic water-level recorders (AWLR) in the state. The system which was tested at a few places in Allahabad, Kaushambi and Fatehpur districts, will be first installed across Agra …
