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 …
Magsaysay award-winner ‘Waterman’ Rajendra Singh, who stepped down from National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) along with two others protesting government’s “negligence” of the river, on Sunday criticised the Prime Minister for “not understanding his responsibility” towards the river as head of the body. Singh, addressing a press conference, said …
Dhubri, March 11: An anti-dam seminar was organised today by Sodou Asom Unnayan Parishad at Gouripur Library Auditorium to air its grievances against the construction of Subansiri dam. The general secretary of the organisation, Amar Rajkhowa, addressed the meeting as appointed speaker. He came down heavily on Dispur and Delhi …
The world's water supply is being strained by climate change and the growing food, energy and sanitary needs of a fast-growing population, according to a United Nations study that calls for a radical rethink of policies to manage competing claims. "Freshwater is not being used sustainably," UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova …
River Saraswati is believed to have flown through the Thar Desert, as reconstructed by several experts based on critical data gathered by them. A careful observation of the channel shows that in most of the places these are fault-controlled. Studies of palaeochannels in many parts of the world proved successful …
The UN's International Labor Organization (ILO) has released a report stating that the Brazilian government violated the rights of indigenous people by moving forward on the massive Belo Monte dam without consulting indigenous communities. The report follows a request last year by the The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights for …
China will draw up a blacklist of obsolete polluting factories that must be destroyed into "iron scraps" to avoid being relocated to other provinces or even neighboring countries, China's industry minister said on Thursday. As many Chinese coastal regions turn against dirty factories, many low-end manufactures and plants are relocating …
About one-fifth of organic carbon in sediments is bound to reactive iron phases, which are metastable over geological timescales and may therefore serve as a sink for the long-term storage of organic carbon.
DERGAON, March 6 – Though the State Government as well as the Forest Department claim to have achieved success in conservation of wildlife, the ground reality tells a different story. The Government has also stated that it has taken steps for the uplift of the Kaziranga National Park (KNP), a …
The High Court yesterday directed the government to stop all kinds of earth-filling, encroachment in Kapotakkha river and construction of a dam on it in Tala upazila of Satkhira within 48 hours. In response to a writ petition, the court ordered the authorities concerned to submit a report after complying …
The entire Western Ghats must be considered as ecologically sensitive, especially to ensure the sustainability of the rivers of the Indian Peninsula, the Madhav Gadgil Committee report has said. Peninsular rivers such as the Krishna, Godavari and Cauvery that drain the Deccan Plateau and flow eastwards originate in the Western …
Meghalaya today launched the State Aquaculture Mission with great fanfare to develop fishery as an alternate industry, amidst growing concern about rivers in the State turning acidic due to years of unscientific mining. Chief Minister Mukul Sangma launched the project at a function at Polo Ground here and said it …
GUWAHATI, March 4 – Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) Rajnath Singh has drawn the attention of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh towards media reports indicating drying up of certain parts of Brahmaputra. In a statement, the former BJP president said, “Reports have come in the media that Brahmaputra has gone dry …
Department of Environment (DoE) has ordered its Barisal office to investigate the incident of developing a housing project by filling up a portion of the river Kirtankhola, said the department's press release yesterday. Mohammad Munir Chowdhury, director of DoE (enforcement), said he had instructed local DoE officials in Barisal to …
China on Friday rejected reports in India suggesting that the dam it is building upstream on the Brahmaputra river was causing its lower reaches to dry up, and reiterated its commitment to Indian officials that it had neither embarked on any diversion projects nor built any large dams in Tibet. …
Beijing: Claiming that its hydropower project on Brahmaputra river in Tibet was not obstructing the water flow to India, China on Friday said its dam was “not big” enough to affect the lower riparian regions. “…you might have noted, Foreign Minister (S M) Krishna and other Indian officials have remarked …
The West Bengal Government's move to extend the national grid to the Sundarbans delta for electrifying villages has come in for criticism from environmentalists. “The land is soft and setting up large and heavy transmission poles may lead to greater erosion, and change the tidal patterns when installed in rivers …
China denied Friday that a dam it was building on a major river in Tibet was impacting the lower reaches of the waterway in India, despite complaints that water-levels there were plunging. The Brahmaputra has its source in China’s southwestern Tibet region where it is known as the Yarlung Tsangpo, …
The second channel of the Buriganga, which flows through the southwestern part of the capital, is almost dead due to wholesale encroachment by public and private organisations and also dumping of waste. Also known as Buriganga Morarkhari, the channel was originally around six kilometres long. But it has been reduced …
Growing water shortages carry economic risks that are as damaging as political corruption Water is the most critical of all natural resources on which modern economies depend. Water scarcity and rapid economic advance cannot go hand-inhand. Yet, with its per-capita water availability falling to 1,582 cu m per year, India …
Taking serious note of effluents released by industries, the govt has issued an order to treat water before it is released into the river The state government which has warned to dismiss the City Councils ( Nagar Parishad) for treating waste water before it got mixed with river, is now …
