Jhelum

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding rising pollution in the Vishaw stream, a tributary of the river Jhelum due to illegal mining, Jammu & …

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Vishaw stream gasps for breath amid mining pollution" appearing in Greater Kashmir dated 16.12.2024 dated 23/04/2025. In the original application, registered suo motu, the tribunal is examining the grievance of a deteriorating trout population in the Vishaw …

Troubled waters

The Indo-Pak row over the 330 MW Kishanganga hydroelectric project is getting more serious than New Delhi had earlier anticipated. Buoyed by the success in the Baglihar project, where the Indian position was largely upheld, New Delhi did not quite think matters would go this far when Islamabad first threatened …

Indus Water talks: Row over two J-K projects may end

Even as India and Pakistan are at loggerheads over the Kishanganga hydro power project in Jammu and Kashmir, the Indus Commissioners of both countries on Monday looked set to resolve the differences over two other hydro-power projects in J-K. The Indus Commissioners are learnt to have discussed 240MW Uri-II project …

India trashes Pak charges on water theft

Peeved at Pakistan's often-repeated allegation that it is being deprived of its share of common waters, India today said such charges were aimed at diverting the attention of their people from their own inefficient use of the vital resource. On the eve of the bilateral talks on water here, India …

Heavy rain in valley

Ehsan Fazili Heavy rain lashed planes and snowfall in the upper reaches since last night raising water level in the Jhelum and its tributaries that resulted in flood-like situation across the valley. The 434-km-long Srinagar-Leh Highway was blocked to traffic today due to snowfall on the Zojila Pass, which is …

Alibi for tension

Ever since General Ashfaq Kayani, Pakistan

Pak heats up water-sharing

In what is being seen as a larger attempt to erode the credibility of the 50-year-old Indus Water Treaty, a concerned India is baffled by the allegations being levelled from Pakistan over water sharing between the two countries. This sudden upping of the ante has its roots in surveys being …

Drying springs a cause for concern

The receding of glaciers and drying up of springs are the major concerns shared by one and all here.

IHK government calls for compensation for Indus Water Treaty

The Indian-held Kashmir (IHK) government on Tuesday demanded compensation from New Delhi for losses incurred due to the Indus Water Treaty (IWT), a water-sharing agreement signed between India and Pakistan in 1960. Participating in the discussions at the state power minister

Rapid glacier melt to affect Indo-Pak water disputes

Athar Parvaiz : The already exist ing disputes between India and Pakistan over water-sharing are expected to exasperate further given the forecast that the impact of climatic changes, due to environmental degradation, would cause drastic depletion in volume of water in the Indus River system originating from Himalayan glaciers. Himalayan …

Water experts expect comfortable Kharif

Due to last three weeks of rains in the country, water shortage, which otherwise was estimated at 10 per cent for early Kharif, has ended, and the water planners hope to have

Jehlum Embankment: Leaking water pipe may cause breach

Srinagar: Negligence on the part of officials of the Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department in repairing a leaking water supply pipe may lead to a breach in the embankment of the Jehlum in the Padshahi Bagh area here. This may lead to flooding of the area when it rains. Almost …

Suyya - A great medieval hydraulic engineer of Kashmir

Pandit Kalhan's 12th century text, the 'Rajatarangini' (composed around 1148-1150 AD), which chronicles the history of Kashmir, describes a well conceived and maintained irrigation system. One of the most notable names recorded in the 'Rajatarangini' is Suyya. He is credited with "draining the water of the Vitasta River and controlling …

Rivers of conflict

James Bond films have an overdose of action, but they have one thing that is close to reality

Major river systems keep rising

The Brahmaputra-Jamuna river system on Sunday kept swelling upstream, said the flood forecasting and warning centre. The swelling is likely to continue for the next 72 hours. The Ganges-Padma river system was also swelling on Sunday at a slow place, inundating more areas, the warning centre said. The centre said …

Irsa releases 32,000 cusecs more water from Tarbela dam

The Indus River System Authority (Irsa) released 32,000 cusecs more water from the Tarbela Reservoir downstream on Thursday to maintain current quantum of water supply for Kharif crops in the country. Official sources told Business Recorder that water inflow has drastically decreased in the mighty Indus and its three tributaries …

Four million acre feet water stored in dams

Water and Power Development Authority has so far stored more than four million acre feet water in three reservoirs - Tarbela, Mangla and Chashma - which reached dead level on May 11, 2008. Wapda is storing half of the current inflows of rivers Indus and Jhelum in Tarbela and Mangla …

J&K to spend Rs 500 cr on infra projects

The Jammu and Kashmir government is spending Rs 500 crore to raise 40 important infrastructure projects including construction of roads and bridges in Kashmir division, a senior official said on Sunday. Work has already started on 32 projects, Mehboob Iqbal, divisional commissioner, Kashmir said while addressing a meeting convened here …

Kishen Ganga power project to be revived

After Pakistan's move to put up a 969 MW hydro power project across the Jhelum, the Central government has decided to revive the almost defunct 18-year-old 330 MW Kishen Ganga hydro power project on the same river in the Kashmir valley. The Jhelum, known as the Neelum in Pakistan, originates …

Kishenganga power project a non-starter

The Central government is scrutinising the steep escalation costs of 330-MW Kishenganga power project. The project proposed on a tributary of river Jhelum in Gurez Valley is proving to be a non-starter due to 68 per cent cost escalation. While modifying the design of the project by reducing storage, Union …

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