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 …
by Andrew Buncombe and Omar Waraich in Wazirabad Crucial, coveted and increasingly scarce, water has become the latest issue to stoke tensions between India and Pakistan, with farmers in Pakistan
The United Nations warned as recently as last week that climate change harbours the potential for serious conflicts over water. In its World Water Development Report of March 2009, it quotes UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon noting the risk of water scarcity
The Supreme Court on Thursday fixed March 26 to hear Goas petition objecting the construction of Kalasa Banduri project on Mahadayi river in Karnataka. When senior advocate Rajiv Dhavan insisted for an early hearing, a bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan said,
Warning of a social unrest over the prevailing water crisis in the country, the Supreme Court has suggested the Government study alternate modes of conserving water and devise strategies to create buffer stock of drinking water on a
Special Correspondent CHENNAI: Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi will lay the foundation stone on February 9 for the Rs.369-crore project to interlink the Tamirabarani river with the Karumeniyar and Nambiar, Governor Surjit Singh Barnala told the Assembly on Wednesday. The project envisaged diversion of surplus water of the Tamirabarani to dry …
If the United States Supreme Court grants certiorari in a case between Mississippi and Tenessee, the court will have its first opportunity to determine if and how transboundary aquifers should be regulated. The applications of this case are far from surface level. Regulated groundwater allocation would protect environmental and economic …
Dec. 9: Ruling out pre-ponement of Assembly polls in the state, Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy on Tuesday sought the intervention of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in stopping the construction of 11 barrages across the river Godavari in Maharashtra. The chief minister led a delegation of union ministers, …
Dec. 5: The Tamil Nadu government would consider petitioning Speakers of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha chairman on the observations of Mr Sambasiva Rao, chairman of parliamentary committee of water resources on the Mullaperiyar issue. While Tamil Nadu has sought to raise the dam
J. Balaji NEW DELHI: Parliamentary Standing Committee on Water Resources Chairman and Guntur Congress MP, R. Sambasiva Rao, here on Friday denied having given any opinion on the safety of the Mullaperiyar dam.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Thursday said that there was no question of going back from proposed Hogenakal irrigation project. Karunandhi who was in the capital to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on escalation of violence in Sri Lankan told reporters here that the Tamil Nadu Government was …
Research study on water and development which also looks into Trans-water boundary water conflict in South Asia as it recognizes that there is need to address the issues of politics of water, conflict and peace from a regional perspective. It strives to document alternative approaches of water sharing and outlines …
The threat perception of scarcity and unjust distribution of water-a finite, pre-eminent natural resource-has made its relationship with conflict. It is an area of continued interest and debate in both the policy literature and popular press at the international level. In India too, the states are in conflict with each …
Prabhakar Rao Voruganti | THE Supreme Court has today directed the Union of India to file a status report on the inter-linking of rivers project. A Bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan, Justice P Sathasivam and Justice J M Panchal also directed the State of Kerala to reply to …
India would make Pakistan a barren land in the next six years by blocking its water through construction of dams in violation of the Indus Water Treaty, Pakistan Indus Water Commissioner Jamaat Ali Shah said today. Shah said India had constructed dams on various rivers and continued doing so in …
THEVARAM (THENI): The State government will write a letter to the Centre to protest against deputation of a special committee, comprising three MPs including two from Kerala, to the Periyar Dam on January 1 to check its strength.
