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 …
The Joint Water Regulation Board (JWRB) of the inter-State Parambikulam Aliyar Project (PAP) agreement on sharing of waters between Kerala and Tamil Nadu will hold a meeting in Coimbatore on April 9 Sources in the Water Resources Department here said Kerala would register its protest against the alleged violation of …
The ongoing Haryana-Delhi "jal yudh' has taken a new turn. For the first time, Haryana has been able to convince the centre of the genuineness of its grievance about Delhi drawing the Yamuna water much in excess of its bona fide needs, leaving the people and fields of Haryana thirsty. …
Politicians thrive on controversies. Senior BJP leader B.S. Yeddyurappa, who was in the Chief Minister's chair for just a week, appeared desperate to work up an emotive election-eve campaign when, on March 16, he along with a handful of supporters crossed over to Tamil Nadu in a coracle and demanded …
More than uniting people and finding solutions to their problems through the process of dialogue and statesmanship, the politicians in our country have a propensity to sow discord and vitiate the atmosphere to a point that even simple issues get complicated. And if they smell an election round the corner, …
With Tamil Nadu's Hogenakkal project on its border with Karnataka becoming a major political controversy between the two States, the former Karnataka Chief Minister, S.M. Krishna, and Union Minister T.R. Baalu, from Tamil Nadu, on Wednesday called on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and sought Central intervention to resolve the issue. …
The latest spark in the tenuous ties between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, already at war over the sharing of the Cauvery waters, is a proposal resurrected from the archives by Tamil Nadu chief minister M. Karunanidhi to tap the Hogenakkal waters for quenching the dry western districts of Dharmapuri and …
With Election Commission announcing dates for the Karnataka assembly polls, the latest water dispute between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu over the Hogenakkal drinking water supply project is in danger of taking a serious turn. A large number of policemen stood guard in Hosur town bordering Karnataka even as buses between …
Chief Secretary L.K. Tripathy asserted here on Tuesday that Karnataka had no locus standi to oppose the Hogenakkal drinking water supply scheme as Tamil Nadu was implementing it based on a
Even as the Tamil Nadu Assembly adopted a resolution urging the Union Government to come forward to safeguard the rights of the people of the State, various Kannada organisations gave a call for a Karnataka bandh on April 10 to protest the Hogenakkal drinking water supply project. The resolution, moved …
THE Japanese-funded Hogenakkal water project is becoming mired in needless controversy. On the one hand, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi's repeated assertion that the Hogenakkal drinking water and power generation project will not be stopped has sparked off a series of protests by pro-Kannada activists in Karnataka apart from …
Awami Tehrik chief Rasool Bux Palijo urged the newly-elected government on Thursday to appoint an international and impartial commission of water experts to help solve the perennial dispute among provinces over share in water in accordance with international laws and norms. Mr Palijo who also heads the Sindh Water Committee …
Tamil Nadu has described as "untenable, unfair and unjust,' Karnataka's stand that neither the interim order nor the final award of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal can be enforced against it, and that release of water has to be decided only by the Cauvery River Authority headed by the Prime …
Question of distribution has to be decided by CRA Karnataka has informed the Supreme Court that neither the interim order nor the final award of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal can be enforced against it. The release of water has to be decided only by the Cauvery River Authority headed …
A farmer was killed over a dispute which emerged over irrigation water share near Naban Khan Lakho village in the Lakha Road area late Monday night. Rafique Lakho was irrigating his lands while his relative Mumtaz Ali Lakho was waiting for his turn, who reminded Rafique that time for his …
Terming "ridiculous' the assurance of the Delhi Government vis-:-vis adequacy of water and power in the city, Delhi BJP leader Harsh Vardhan has asked the Prime Minister to step in and resolve the dispute between Haryana and Delhi over the sharing of water. In a statement issued over the weekend, …
The Delhi government is planning to go to the Supreme Court to seek a direction to the Haryana government for releasing adequate water from Tajewala so that the Yamuna reaches an optimum level in the national Capital. Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said that neighbouring state governments were aware of Delhi's …
Frazzled by the frequent disruptions in the supply of water meant for the Capital, the Delhi Jal Board wants the Centre to step in and ensure that Haryana sticks to the terms of water sharing agreement signed by the two States. Delhi and Haryana have been at loggerheads over the …
M. Rajivlochan Towards Water Wisdom: Limits, Justice, Harmony by Ramaswamy R. Iyer. Sage. Pages 270. Rs 350. Towards Water Wisdom: Limits, Justice, HarmonyOUR pot of water woes is brimming over. That does not seem surprising, according to Ramaswamy R. Iyer, since even though India is one of the few countries …
The Leader of the Opposition in the Delhi Assembly, Jagdish Mukhi, has written to Union Water Resources Minister Saifuddin Soz drawing his attention to the Capital's water woes and demanding proper allocation of the Yamuna waters. He has urged the Union Minister to convene a meeting of the Punjab, Haryana, …
