Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
NOW that the Appellate Division of the High Court has dismissed seven appeals filed by seven commercial firms against earlier judicial orders to knock down illegally built structures on four rivers, we feel encouraged and indeed uplifted in spirit. That the path is now clear for the authorities to evict …
S Lalitha, Bangalore, April 1, DH News Service: When the Second Phase of the Cauvery Stage IV project gets commissioned by 2011 end, the City will end up utilising every drop of the 19 TMC feet of water allocated to it by the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal. It means end …
C. K. Chandramohan Two hydroelectric projects on Bhagirathi river called off Chief Minister asks Centre to give free power to the State as compensation DEHRA DUN: The Centre's decision to scrap the 381-MW Bhaironghati and 480-MW Pala- Maneri hydroelectric projects coming up on the Bhagirathi in district Uttarkashi in order …
New Delhi: There would be no water in large stretches of the famed Alaknanda and Bhagirathi river beds if the Uttarakhand government goes ahead with its plan to build 53 power projects on these two rivers which join at Dev Prayag to form the Ganga, the Comptroller and Auditor General …
Our current concepts of abrupt climate change are strongly influenced by compelling palaeoclimate evidence for events like the Younger Dryas, in which massive changes in climate occurred essentially instantaneously. It is generally thought that an injection of freshwater from the retreating Laurentide Ice Sheet altered the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation …
A thousand years after the last ice age ended, the Northern Hemisphere was plunged back into glacial conditions. For 20 years, scientists have blamed a vast flood of meltwater for causing this
In response to a widespread decline in fisheries, scientists and policy makers have constructed models outlining the biological and social drivers that cause changes in fishing intensity and methods identified with overfishing. The models also address the consequences of overfishing, namely changes in biomass, trophic structure and ecosystem resilience, as …
This Report of the Standing Committee on Water Resources deals with the action taken by the Government on the recommendations / observations contained in their Eleventh Report on
A source of conflict between Israel and its neighbors for decades, the Jordan River is now depleted by drought, pollution, and overuse. Could the fight to save it forge a path toward peace?
Free flow for Bhagirathi as govt shelves 2 dams in upper reaches Religious, Green Concerns May Shut Third Project Too New Delhi: Bhagirathi, one of the key tributaries of the Ganga, will now flow untamed and unchecked through the year for at least part of its stretch. In a decision …
The eco-tourism project being launched by Pappinissery Eco-Tourism Society in the mangrove-rich areas on the banks of the Valapattanam River is in the centre of a controversy in the wake of allegations that the Society is encroaching river bank in the guise of developing it into an eco-tourism spot. The …
The sharing of the Indus waters stands settled by the Indus Waters Treaty 1960, and the nature of the sharing is such that no disputes can arise on this matter. Questions of the conformity of Indian projects to the provisions of the treaty can indeed arise, but the agreement provides …
Pune The district collectorate has asked the civic bodies of Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad and the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) to come up with a plan to curb river pollution, by April 9. On Tuesday, collector Chandrakant Dalvi addressed a meeting of representatives from both the civic bodies and industries …
Jhadi Taal, a last refuge of critically endangered swamp deers, also known as 'Barasingha' in Uttar Pradesh is under threat of submergence, thanks to the unabated changing course of an adjoining river. A study by a team of experts from Wildlife Institute of India (WII) has found that a large …
Jammu: As neighbouring Punjab has backtracked on an agreement on sharing water of the Ravi, the state government has constituted a committee to take up the matter with Punjab. Minister for Public Health Engineer (PHE) and Irrigation Taj Mohi-ud-Din said this today in the Legislative Assembly while replying to the …
Firdous Syed There has been only 43.9 mm rain in March. Because of scanty rainfall temperatures have risen, giving the feel of summer It is not only Hafiz Saeed who is talking of a jihad over water. Many Pakistani politicians have threatened war with India over water. War mongering might …
