Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Bharatiya Kisan Union Purwa through its Secretary Vs Union of India Ministry of Jal Shakti & Others dated 07/03/2025. The grievance of the applicant is that railway bridge between Daraganj and Jhunsi is being constructed on the flood plains of …
Hyderabad, March 9: The Krishna Water Disputes Tribunal is all set to come out with an interim report in August directing that the surplus water from the river be shared by AP, Karnataka and Maharashtra. Until now, AP has been enjoying exclusive rights over about 330 TMC ft water of …
HAFQAT ALI ISLAMABAD Former Pakistan foreign minister Khursheed Mehmood Kasuri has said that there can be a nuclear war between Pakistan and India on the water issue. "Water is the most impor- tant issue between Pakistan and India and if they do not take it seriously, it can lead to …
Ramaswamy R. Iyer As differences can be dealt with within the ambit of the Indus Waters Treaty, there is no case for raising them in a different forum. Pakistan wishes to bring water on to the agenda for future talks. Siddharth Varadarajan (
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Transboundary watercourses pose a variety of challenges to the management of water resources. Basin-wide management approaches often clash with state sovereignty. Efforts in cooperatively managing shared water resources are therefore of great importance for the sustainable management of transboundary river and lake basins. The World Bank has long been engaged …
Hyderabad, Feb. 16: The Krishna Water Dispute Tribunal report is likely to lose importance amidst ongoing Telangana agitation and the appointment of Srikrishna Committee. The tribunal
NEW DELHI: A meeting to discuss the contentious issue of water-sharing between Delhi and Haryana scheduled for this Tuesday has been put off. The meeting that was to be chaired by the Prime Minister
SHAFQAT ALI Pakistan and India on Wednesday signed a memorandum for inspection of barrages on rivers, as Indus waters commissioner G. Ranganathan said there will be no war between Pakistan and India on water. Talking to reporters after signing the memorandum Mr Ranganathan said the two countries are facing water …
protest: MDMK general secretary Vaiko leading a demonstration in the city. MADURAI: Any lethargy by the State Government on the Mullaperiyar dam row with neighbouring Kerala would certainly ruin the economy in southern districts of Tamil Nadu and also lead to water crisis in Madurai in the near future, said …
Ramaswamy R. Iyer The Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal was established in 1990, under the Inter-State Water Disputes Act, at a specific direction of the Supreme Court. Ironically, and despite a constitutional and statutory bar on jurisdiction, the court has made it very difficult for the Tribunal to function in accordance …
J. Venkatesan New Delhi: Contending that the Mullaperiyar water dispute is an inter-State water dispute that cannot be resolved by the Supreme Court, Kerala on Thursday suggested that the Centre could be asked to constitute a tribunal to adjudicate the issue as it has wider ramifications. Senior counsel Harish Salve, …
Three years have passed since the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal (CWDT) gave its final award on inter-State sharing of the river waters. The Inter-State Waters Dispute Act, 1956 bars any court, including the Supreme Court, from having or exercising jurisdiction
Ramaswamy R. Iyer The fact that we must try to minimise the need for water supply augmentation by limiting the growth of its demand in every kind of use has not been widely recognised. - At the heart of the numerous water-related conflicts lies a competitive, unsustainable demand for water …
Prabhakar Rao Voruganti | ENS "IF five of us decide that it is a water dispute, everything goes," Justice D K Jain said while hearing the daylong arguments on Thursday on Mullaiperiyar dam. Senior advocate Harish Salve, appearing for the State of Kerala replied that even his legislation (the Act …
S.S. NEGI In the hotly contested Mullaperiyar dam case, the focus on Tuesday turned to the feasibility of a new dam with the Supreme Court putting specific query to the lawyer of Tamil Nadu asking why the state was so "sensitive" about the construction of a new reservoir. While Tamil …
C hief Minister Digambar Kamat chose the right forum on Sunday to announce that Goa would never bow down on the Mhadei issue. He was speaking at the 15th Goa Yuva Mahotsav, organised by the Konkani Bhasha Mandal and attended by thousands of youth from around the state. Just a …
The Sardar Sarovar Dam reached a height of 121.92 m in 2006 and at this height the dam has enough water to generate most of the promised benefits - irrigation, drinking water, and electricity. However, currently only 30% of the targeted villages receive regular water supplies, less than 20% of …
