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 …
Infrastructure firms NCC and IL&FS; Engineering have decided to completely exit from the hydroelectric project they are jointly building on the River Sorang, a tributary of Sutlej River, in Himachal Pradesh. The 100-mw power project is coming up at an investment of . 849.8 crore. Close to 85% of works …
A group of researchers in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh has claimed to have found traces of a paleo-river. A paleo-channel or paleo-river is an inactive river or water stream buried under sediment. Due to geological activities, the nearly 65 million year-old river might have got covered under basaltic lava, …
Flanked by the interior secretary and a federal environmental watchdog, Gov. Jerry Brown unveiled his plan to reconfigure the state’s oversubscribed water distribution system in hopes of satisfying the conflicting demands of Southern California cities, agribusinesses and environmentalists, which have competing claims on the flow of the Sacramento River, the …
Erosion by rivers Suganda and Biskhali has taken a serious turn in four upailas of Jhalakati district rendering many people homeless and landless. Locals said, a vast tract of commercial area and crop land also went into the gorge of these rivers in the absence of effective measures to check …
The concern of Hegde and Subhash Chandra about the environment and cost economics of river diversion schemes is commendable; however, given the limitations of the proposals recommended by the authors, the river diversion schemes could be inevitable for the reasons mentioned in this note. In addition, it is pertinent to …
A s the silver waters of the Kishanganga rush through this north Kashmir valley, Indian labourers are hard at work on a hydropower project that will dam the river just before it flows across one of the world's most heavily militarised borders into Pakistan. The hum of excavators echoes through …
Even as 1.25 lakh people have been affected by floods in the northern districts of the State, the Army has been called out for rescue operations in the affected areas. According to a press release issued by the Press Information Bureau, Army personnel were able to restore connectivity to Khairkatta …
The Kollidam Keezhanai Paasana Vivasayigal Sangam has urged MPs of all parties in Tamil Nadu to call on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and impress upon him the need for getting the State’s due share of Cauvery water for the current crop season. The Sangam, at a meeting convened at Kumaratchi …
The large dams being built on the rivers of the eastern Himalayas have become highly controversial. The hydropower that north-east India is expected to produce is meant almost entirely for use elsewhere. That these dams will be exclusively hydropower and not multipurpose dams and that there will be a great …
It is not just the Ganga in Kanpur or the Mithi in Mumbai, a total of 150 rivers across India are being heavily and alarmingly polluted, threatening a large population. This may well spell doom at a time when inter-State conflicts over water resources are not uncommon. According to the …
Some plans are easier imagined than implemented. Perhaps, the ambitious proposal of interlinking of rivers falls in this category. In February, the Supreme Court had asked the government to implement the long-pending project - envisaged to resolve India’s water woes - by setting up a committee to oversee related issues. …
GUWAHATI, July 17 – The Water Resources Department has drawn up seven proposals worth Rs 104 crore for tackling the Guwahati flash flood issue. Disclosing this at the State Assembly here today, Minister of State (Independent) for Water Resources Rajiv Lochan Pegu said that none of the proposals has been …
Siliguri, July 17: The state irrigation department has decided to introduce an early warning system in case of a sudden rise in river water levels in north Bengal. Manas Bhunia, the irrigation minister who is on a tour of the flood-hit parts in Jalpaiguri, said the absence of a warning …
Owing to abysmally low level of water in the Bhakra and Pong dams, the water supply to partner states, including Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan, was cut by 10 per cent this morning. The reduction in water supply is set to hit transplantation of paddy and watering of other crops in …
NHPC rescinds tunnel contract, to invite fresh bids Kullu/Siund: The 800 MW Parbati (stage-II) project, part of the 2,013 MW Parbati project, Asia’s biggest hydro-power project on the Parbati river here being executed by the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC), has been pushed 10 years behind schedule as the NHPC …
Save Ganga Campaigners have expressed concern over the possibilities of the river vanishing at its source due to the upcoming or proposed hydel power projects. Such projects are not solutions for the energy requirements for hills of Uttarakhand, they said. “They are outdated and will heavily damage the Ganga eco …
India's annual monsoon has claimed 109 lives since rains started in June and left at least 400,000 people homeless in the northeastern state of Assam, in a tragedy experts say was made worse by corruption and poor management of the Brahmaputra River. A senior member of the Assam Human Rights …
Almost a year after it barred India from undertaking any permanent works above the riverbed level at the project site, the International Court of Arbitration at Hague will hold its final hearing next month on the dispute between India and Pakistan over the 330 MW Kishanganga hydro-electric project in Jammu …
Giving in to public protest against privatisation of water services and indiscriminate pricing of water, the modified national water policy provides for subsidy to the poor but at the same time emphasises the need for subjecting water to allocation and pricing on ‘economic principles’. It says the private sector can …
Farmers in the Lower Bhavani (LBP) Project ayacut have appealed to the public works department to check the unauthorised pumping of water from the rivers and water carrying channels in the district immediately. A few persons in the old ayacut of LBP, which comprises Thadapalli, Arakkankottai and Kalingarayan ayacuts, were …
