Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Rajendra Prasad Gupta Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 23/05/2025. Counsel appearing for the state of Uttar Pradesh submitted that the action plan to prevent the discharge of untreated sewage and industrial effluents in river Ganga is ready …
This paper applies the principles of water-use accounts, developed in the first of the series, to the Ganges river basin in South Asia. The Ganges basin covers six countries, the river rises in the western Himalayas in the Uttarakhand state of India, A unique feature is the strong seasonal variation …
Concerns about food security and apprehensions of future water scarcity are common to all the countries in the world. This paper focuses on the water issue between India and Bangladesh. Crisscrossed by the rivers and streams, Bangladesh is a water-abundant country with low-per capital water availability. Almost 94% of the …
This study aims to determine trends in the annual and seasonal total rainfall over Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna river basins of India. The data used in this study consists of daily gridded rainfall data.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank launched Ganga cleaning campaign 'Sparsh Ganga' at Muni-ki-Reti, Rishikesh on Thursday. The function was organised by NSS cell of HNB Garhwal University. To promote Ganga cleaning, he announced an incentive of Rs 11 lakh and to make the event historic, he announced to celebrate …
PARUL CHANDRA It was a telling remark on how the Ganga remains polluted despite the crores that have been poured into projects to ensure it remains clean. As Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh told the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, "The Ganga is not as clean as it should have been. …
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: The World Bank on Wednesday announced a soft loan of $one billion in the next 5 to 7 years for the recently launched National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) to clean and conserve the river. The support would include substantial financing over several phases as well …
In this recent publication CPCB presents water quality of the Ganga for a decade spanning between 1999-2008. This will be useful for the agencies responsible for restoring and preserving water quality of Ganga and would serve as a model for conducting similar studies in other major rivers in India.
Water management at the river basin level has undergone several shifts in paradigm over the last several decades, from largely ignoring the hydrological aspects of a river basin and resorting to interbasin transfers on the one hand, to emphasizing the interconnectedness of unique ecological systems and encouraging an integrated approach …
This new CPCB study on water consumption and sewage disposal patterns finds that 70% of the total municipal sewage and effluent from over 900 cities and towns are being discharged untreated into rivers, which are a major source of drinking water. The status of water supply and sanitation significantly indicate …
This report summarises the study in northern Ganga plains and coastal Tamil Nadu and Gujarat. The objective of the study was to pilot tasks to enable local communities better deal with impacts of climate variability and anthropogenic climate change such as floods and droughts. It pursued a "learning-by-doing" approach to …
Water resources in Indus-Gangetic basin serve as a powerful tool for development and for overcoming poverty in the region. Rapid agriculture expansion and subsequent utilization of available water resources of the basin has placed the basin at risk with water scarcity issues on one hand, and flooding problems on the …
LUCKNOW: Several teams constituted by the UP Pollution Control Board inspected 44 tanneries in Kanpur district on Wednesday. The teams were constituted by the UPPCB as a follow-up to an order passed by the Allahabad High Court early in November. The bench comprising justice Ashok Bhushan and justice Arun Tandon …
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh could boast of owning the country's biggest leather complex, if plans of UP State Industrial Development Corporation (UPSIDC) actualise. In a significant move, the corporation is planning to set up a Leather Park sprawling over an area of 1,500 acre in Unnao, bordering Kanpur district. "The UPSIDC …
The Allahabad High Court on Monday issued notices to UP Chief Secretary Atul Kumar Gupta, Ganga Expressway Chief Executive Officer Ravindra Singh, J P Infrastructure Chairman Manoj Gaur, the District Magistrate and the Additional SP of Mirzapur on a contempt petition alleging that they were working on a project in …
The worldwide paradigm shift in river basin management has not affected policymakers in south Asia. Hydro-diplomacy in the Ganges-Brahmaputra- Meghna basin is still based on reductionist engineering, and looks at marginal economic benefits, without showing any concern for the long-run implications for livelihoods and ecosystem. The governments in the river …
