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 …
Prabhakar Rao Voruganti | SENIOR counsel K Parasaran, appearing for Tamil Nadu, tried to drive home the point in the apex court on Thursday that the current dispute between Tamil Nadu and Kerala is not a water dispute at all. Appearing before a Bench comprising Justice D K Jain, Justice …
Hyderabad, Jan. 12: An inter-district water dispute is brewing over Singur waters with farmers and elected representatives from Medak and Nizamabad demanding a
Haroon Habib DHAKA: Bangladesh and India have agreed to resolve outstanding issues relating to water sharing and decided that they will jointly start work for the protection of banks of the common rivers. The consensus came at the end of the two-day crucial water talks at the Secretary level here …
SHAFQAT ALI ISLAMABAD `India will have to stop stealing Pakistan's water as we will not hesitate to wage a war with New Delhi if it does not stop doing so' : There can be a Pakistan, India war on the issue of water, a close aide of the government said …
Concerns about food security and apprehensions of future water scarcity are common to all the countries in the world. This paper focuses on the water issue between India and Bangladesh. Crisscrossed by the rivers and streams, Bangladesh is a water-abundant country with low-per capital water availability. Almost 94% of the …
As scientists worry about the prospect of a catastrophic flood from Lake Sarez in the Pamir Mountains, agricultural communities on the plains below face a very different problem. This arid region in Central Asia has inherited a set of resource blunders made decades ago by the Soviet Union. And since …
The paper reviews contentious issues related to water governance in the Narmada river basin like the riparian rights of States over apportionment of the use of the waters for large dam-centered canal irrigation and hydro-electric power development and the later disputes around the appropriateness of this model of development given …
This handbook provides guidance for improving the governance of freshwater resources, in particular through effective implementation of the integrated water resources management (IWRM) approach in lake, river and aquifer basins. It articulates the links between challenges and IWRM responses; suggests ways of setting up or modernising basin organisations to facilitate …
Water issues play a crucial role in Central-South Asia, both in the quantity of water available and its quality. Access to clean drinking water is a major, though largely unmet, objective. While much of the region is experiencing water shortages, poor water management lies at the heart of many problems. …
Water governance in the Narmada river basin has been in the eye of a controversial storm from the time of independence. While initially the dispute had been between the riparian states over the apportionment of the use of the waters of the river for large dam centered canal irrigation and …
This document is intended to assist water development practitioners, civil society peacebuilders, and human rights advocates seeking to integrate water and peacebuilding in their work. The purpose is twofold: to furnish a conceptual framework for understanding problems of scarcity and equity, and to provide practical guidance and tools for action. …
This publication comprises the proceedings of the UNESCO Chair Workshop on "International Strategy for Sustainable Groundwater Management: Transboundary Aquifers and Integrated Watershed Management" held on 6 October 2009 at the Laboratory of Advanced Research A, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba City, Japan in conjunction with the JSPS-DGHE Joint Research Project Meeting. …
This paper is in two parts. The first part presents a brief review of progress made since the Water Action Plan was agreed at the 2003 G8 Summit in Evian, France. It includes an introduction to some of the key themes of the United Nations World Water Development Report 3: …
KATTAPPANA: The water level in the Mullaperiyar dam fell to 135.5 ft on Wednesday as rain kept away and Tamil Nadu increased the discharge from the dam. The flow of water from the dam into the Periyar downstream has almost stopped. On Tuesday, there was a nominal flow. The inflow …
Thiruvananthapuram: A team of experts deputed by Kerala government claimed to have detected leakages at three spots on the 113-year-old Mullaperiyar dam over which the state is locked in a dispute with Tamil Nadu. The leakages were detected by the team members headed by Mullaperiyar Special Cell chairman M K …
The long-standing water dispute between the States of Tamil Nadu and Kerala on raising the height of the century-old Mullaperiyar dam got prolonged on Tuesday after the Supreme Court referred the matter to a Constitution Bench. The Bench of Justices DK Jain, Mukundakam Sharma and RM Lodha passed the order …
The worldwide paradigm shift in river basin management has not affected policymakers in south Asia. Hydro-diplomacy in the Ganges-Brahmaputra- Meghna basin is still based on reductionist engineering, and looks at marginal economic benefits, without showing any concern for the long-run implications for livelihoods and ecosystem. The governments in the river …
Sudha Nambudiri It is said that the next world war will be for water. Well, India is already reeling under water shortage. Add the global climate change and it becomes a major environmental issue. It is indeed ironic that Kerala with its large number of waterbodies is facing a water …
