Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
Delhi is perpetually in the grip of a water crisis with the shortage plummeting to 150 million litres a day. In Mumbai water scarcity is reported to be a cause of social discord and stress. A drinking water crisis is lurking in Godawari district of Karnataka as also in Bundelkhand. …
Rajahmundry, June 6: Governor of Pondicherry, Dr Iqbal Singh, called for preserving drinking water resources for future needs. Participating in the bhoomi puja programme for the supply of drinking water to Yanam under Pondy state from the Godavari river on Sunday, Mr Singh said that unless these measures were initiated …
Hyderabad, May 14: The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board has got Rs 105 crore for implementation of the Godavari drinking water project and for taking up works on execution of sewerage master plan in Greater Hyderabad. The state government on Friday released the amount for the first quarter …
Hyderabad, Feb. 28: Denizens of Greater Hyderabad will have to wait for a longer time to get the Godavari river water. The execution of Rs 3,375-crore Phase-I of the Godavari project has been hit by paucity of funds for the second time in a row. The state government, in its …
Patancheru, near Hyderabad, India, is a major production site for the global bulk drug market. Approximately 90 manufacturers send their wastewater to a common treatment plant in Patancheru. Extraordinary high levels of a wide range of pharmaceuticals have recently been demonstrated in the treated effluent. As little as 0.2% of …
Very high levels of a range of pharmaceuticals have been reported recently in the effluent from a wastewater treatment plant near Hyderabad, India. The plant serves approximately 90 manufacturers of bulk drugs that primarily are exported to the world market. Fluoroquinolone antibiotics were found at levels that are highly toxic …
July 26: The project to bring Godavari water to the city is likely to be delayed as the water board does not have the money to execute the project. The water board sought over Rs 1,100 crore for this year for the project, but the government allotted it only Rs …
July 22: The major irrigation minister, Mr Ponnala Lakshmaiah, has proposed to develop the navigation system for integrating all the major projects on the Godavari river. The minister asked the irrigation principal secretary, Mr S.K. Joshi, to prepare a feasibility report connecting Sriramsagar, Pranahitha-Chevella, Kantanapalli, Dummugudem Tail Pond and Indira …
July 14: The state government has for the first time decided to take the help of Opposition parties to fight against the construction of illegal projects across Krishna and Godavari rivers by Karnataka and Maharashtra. The Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy, is learnt to have agreed to lead a …
July 7: The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Tuesday expressed its concern over the indiscriminate sanction of individual permits to carry sand from the Godavari river in East Godavari district. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Anil R. Dave and Justice Ramesh Ranganathan while dealing with a petition filed by …
June 9: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has informed the state government that it cannot fund the Godavari water project. The corporation was asked to provide Rs 960 crore to the water board over a period of two years for the execution of the Rs 3,375 crore Phase-I of …
June 4: Climatic conditions in the state are clearly worsening. In fact, environmentalists say that the state capital is the sixth worst polluted city in the country. Alarmingly, the Krishna and Godavari rivers, that contribute around 90 per cent of the state
May 24: The Maoist movement across the borders of Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra and Andhra has increased as the river Godavari dried up. The Warangal superintendent of police, Mr V.C. Sajjanar, said,
Excessive sand mining causes acute water scarcity in Marathwada Farmers of Wadwali village in Maharashtra are keeping a lookout for sand mining contractors who often come there to excavate the Godavari
This article is an interim outcome of an action research project being done on Water Governance under which an analysis of the sub-basin is being done to understand the dynamics of water allocation and regulation in practice. It studies inter-sectoral water allocation, planning and management in the last decade in …
Dec. 9: Ruling out pre-ponement of Assembly polls in the state, Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy on Tuesday sought the intervention of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in stopping the construction of 11 barrages across the river Godavari in Maharashtra. The chief minister led a delegation of union ministers, …
