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 …
Mr Rao urged Ms Bharti to direct the Krishna River Management Board to constitute a supervising body with officials from both the states. Hyderabad: TS irrigation minister T. Harish Rao on Tuesday requested Union water resources minister Uma Bharti to address the concerns of the state in the proposed Apex …
Interlinking of rivers need 30-km long canal; Researchers prepare routing map. Visakhapatnam: After linking the Krishna and Godavari rivers, the Andhra Pradesh government has now set its sights on interlinking the Vamsadhara and Nagavali rivers that flow through Srikakulam and Vizianagaram districts in north Andhra. While there are half a …
The apex council was created by the AP Reorganisation Act. The council had not met even once despite both states asking for a meeting. Hyderabad: Union water resources minister Uma Bharati will hold the first apex council meeting with the Chief Ministers of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh this month. On …
A government-appointed panel examining a dispute over migration of gas from Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC)-held blocks in the Bay of Bengal to adjacent fields of Reliance Industries (RIL) will submit its report to the Ministry of Petroleum by August 31. The single-member committee was formed in December 2015 …
Agreements to help irrigate 39 lakh acres in Telangana Unveiling a new chapter in the inter-State relations with neighbouring States, Telangana signed three agreements with Maharashtra in Mumbai on Tuesday with plans to utilise its allocated share of waters to irrigate 39 lakh acres of parched land by constructing three …
CHENNAI: The southern bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Monday has admitted a petition filed by former Vijayawada legislator Devineni Rajasekhar and issued notices to Andhra Pradesh government, the Director of Mines and Geology and to all District Collectors following allegations of misuse of the recently introduced Free …
Nashik: The Kumbh Mela finally comes to an end on August 11; and while the river has swelled to capacity with the onset of monsoon, the Godavari is once again filled with drainage, sewage and other waste, bringing the focus once again to the cleanliness issues marring the holy waters. …
Rampant deforestation, extensive damming of the rivers, huge diversions of water for industrial projects and even elite resorts can be seen across the state. All these underlie Maharashtra’s terrible water crisis. They won’t get washed away by the monsoon, even if media coverage of it dries up with the onset …
Hyderabad: The Union water resources ministry on Thursday announced a committee comprising engineers from the Central Water Commission (CWC) to study the contentious issue of water sharing between Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. The committee will complete its study in a month and submit a report to the Centre. Union water …
Samvatsar (Ahmednagar): People in Samvatsar and surrounding drought-hit villages in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar have been forced to illegally dig wells in the dry Godavari riverbed for water. Officials say rivers are the state government's property that makes well digging in the riverbed illegal. The river has water only for a couple …
Ramkund, the sacred bathing ghat on Godavari and the epicentre of the Kumbh Mela in Maharashtra, has dried up after 139 years. Thousands of pilgrims will have to skip taking a holy dip in the ghat on Gudi Padwa on Friday unless the municipal authorities somehow manage to replenish the …
Local leaders form syndicates, dictating sand prices. Kakinada: Illegal sand mining is rampant in East and West Godavari districts. Even in authorised sand reaches, the illegal mining is going on, according to sources. The local leaders have formed syndicates and dictating sand prices and minting money. Though the government announced …
As a postwoman, Archana Bhosale is expected to get to work in Devsinga Tul village, 380 km from Mumbai, by 10 am. But invariably, at 4 am, she is still awake, ensuring her eight plastic pots are in queue correctly, awaiting the arrival of the water tanker’s first trip of …
KCR to sign agreements on construction of five barrages across the river Godavari and its tributaries The people of Telangana will have one more long-lasting reason to celebrate March 8 in the years to come in addition to it being the International Women’s Day as the State is slated to …
Officials have proposed diverting Godavari water to the Water Grid. Hyderabad: Officials plan to divert Godavari water which would likely cause severe drinking water shortage in the city during peak summer. The Godavari Phase-I water supply project to the city has four pumping stations at Bommakal, Mallaram, Kondapaka and Ghanpur. …
The aim of the present study is to investigate LC50 values in three seasons of TBTO on L. marginalis. The active substance TBT is highly toxic damaging to non target species. The bivalves have been bioindicators to determine aquatic pollution status. The adverse effect of Tributyltin oxide has been studied …
Union Budget allots just Rs 100 crore for the project. Hyderabad: Going by this year’s Budgetary allocation to the Polavaram project, considered the lifeline of AP, it would take around 300, not three years as claimed by Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, to complete it. Mr Naidu had often said …
NASHIK: During a brainstorming session on the rejuvenation of river Godavari by city-based activists and experts, Deepak Naik chairman of Maharashtra State Economic Development Council and Rekha Somalia, director Naik Environmental Research Institute Ltd, a committee was formed to work towards reviving the river. Naik is an expert in river …
Nashik: The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has begun the demonstration project for the online water checking in the Godavari to check the river water pollution. A trial run of the project was to be initiated during the Kumbh Mela, but it was not possible because of scant rainfall. The …
This study is an attempt to quantify the impact of climate change on the hydrology of Armur watershed in Godavari river basin, India. A GIS-based semi-distributed hydrological model, soil and water assessment tool (SWAT) has been employed to estimate the water balance components on the basis of unique combinations of …
