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 …
A Supreme Court Bench led by Chief Justice Altamas Kabir on Wednesday issued notices to the Centre, National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) and others on a PIL that contended that the authorities have failed to enforce laws to protect the Ganga and provide ecological flow for the river. The …
The Joint Action Committee (JAC) comprising of seven organizations from Garo Hills held a public rally in Williamnagar on Tuesday to demand that the Meghalaya Government halt the Daribokgre dam project to tap water for supply to Tura, citing possible ecological damage to the Simsang river. The student and social …
The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Centre, the States of Karnataka and Kerala and the Union Territory of Puducherry on an application from Tamil Nadu for a direction to the Centre to constitute the Cauvery Management Board (CMB) and the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee (CWRC) so as …
After her path-breaking discovery of 14 new species of Chironomus or midge fly in 2009, local scholar Dr Pragya Khanna’s has come up with alarming research findings suggesting “poisoning” of Jammu region’s groundwater with heavy metals (effluents) discharged by industrial estates. This may have a cascading effect on the health …
A statement signed by eminent lawyers, activists, groups and individuals has been sent to the Prime Minister, vice chairman of the planning commission, the ministry of environment and forests and the minister of water resources, protesting against the construction of the Lakhwar Dam on the Yamuna in the Upper Yamuna …
Three major rivers-the Jamuna, the Ganges and the Padma-eroded 10,347 hectares of land during the last three years. The Jamuna, the Ganges and the Padma eroded about 3690 hectares of land in 2012, 3,610 hectares in 2011 and 3,047 hectares in 2010, according to reports of Centre for Environmental and …
The Indus Treaty represents the most generous water-sharing agreement in modern world history, reserving for Pakistan 80.52 per cent of the waters, or 167.2 billion cubic metres annually. No other water pact in the world comes anywhere close to this level of upper-riparian munificence. In fact, the Indus Treaty uniquely …
Delegation Submits Five-Point Memorandum To CM Chief minister Oommen Chandy has responded positively to a demand by a collective of greens in the state to devise a mechanism to bring all activities related to sand mining under government control. The proposal, which is part of the five-point memorandum, submitted by …
Dharwad-based NGO Jan Sangram Parishat (JSP) has urged the Union and the state governments concerned to accept and implement the report of the Western Ghats Expert Panel submitted to the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests on August 31, 2011. JSP convenor S R Hiremath said here at the weekend …
An inter-ministerial expert panel on the Brahmaputra has asked the government to intensify monitoring construction projects in the middle reaches of the river by China. It has also cautioned that China may replicate the same in the Great Bend area. The panel in its recent report to a committee of …
Due to excessive extraction of groundwater to meet the demands of city dwellers, level of the groundwater in the capital is depleting by two to three metres every year. Hydrologists said dependence on groundwater extracted from the city aquifers needs to be reduced by providing alternative sources of water supply, …
Recognizing that the plethora of dams built and planned in the Ganga basin could almost empty the river of its waters in the winter season, an inter-ministerial group has recommended that the projects be re-engineered to maintain 30-50% of water flow in the lean period of December-March. The group, headed …
Amid fresh concerns in Bangladesh over the construction of two proposed dams in Meghalaya, State Power Minister Clement Marak said on Wednesday that construction of the hydropower projects would not have any impact in Bangladesh. Power-starved Meghalaya is proposing to construct two dams: One across the Umiew River known as …
According to the 1892 Madras-Mysore agreement, Karnataka cannot take up any work without Tamil Nadu's consent The Tamil Nadu government on Monday said it will move Supreme Court against neighbouring Karnataka over the river Pennaiyar dispute. PWD Minister K V Ramalingam told Tamil Nadu Assembly that Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa …
Jayalalithaa seeks Manmohan's intervention As Karnataka is planning to construct a dam across Thenpennar, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s intervention to stop the project. Responding to a calling attention motion, PWD Minister K.V. Ramalingam said the Chief Minister had also asked the Prime Minister to ensure …
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today directed the deputy commissioner concerned to take necessary action to check illegal mining on the Chakki riverbed along the Pathankot-Gurdaspur highway. The illegal mining could wreak havoc in the area and downstream the river in case of any floods during the monsoon season. The …
State told not to treat eco protection as a soft subject The State government has failed to implement various Centrally sponsored projects aimed at rejuvenating the Pampa, the Vembanad Lake, and the Kuttanad water system, N.K. Sukumaran Nair, Pampa Parirakshana Samiti (PPS) general secretary, has said. Mr. Nair told The …
Bangladesh and Arunachal Pradesh have discussed several measures for better management of the Brahmaputra River for mutual benefit, official sources said on Saturday. Arunachal Pradesh Water Resources Development Minister Newlai Tingkhatra during a meeting in Itanagar on Friday with the visiting Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Tariq A Khan discussed …
Surfers here have long lived by a simple rule: When it rains, no matter how good the waves may be, stay out of the water. Those who do head out to the Venice Pier on a rainy day might have their bravery (or naïveté) repaid with pinkeye, a fever or …
The government on Thursday recommended the removal of four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River in Oregon and California to aid native salmon runs and help resolve a decades-long struggle over allocation of scarce water resources. The Interior Department proposal, which comes as the largest dam removal project in U.S. …
