Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Naresh Kumar Vs Government of NCT of Delhi & Others dated 13/05/2025. The matter is related to illegal extraction of groundwater in Manakpura, Delhi by the water supply mafia. According to the complainant, one Hemant has illegally drilled a borewell …
The Global Water Partnership (GWP) and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) held a workshop of policymakers and international and regional experts working on the South Asian region in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 23–24 February to explore new ways of promoting ‘out-of-the box’ thinking about the region’s food and water security …
PALAKKAD: The Perumatty grama panchayat, which won a legal battle against Coca-Cola at Plachimada, has sought compensation from the company for permanent damage done to groundwater, soil, agriculture and livestock in the village. Grama panchayat president K. Suresh told The Hindu here on Monday that the State government's proposed Bill …
MARGAO: Gram sabha members of the Nuvem village Panchayat on Sunday cried foul over illegal bore wells and demanded a total stop to the activity on grounds that rampant exploitation of ground water for commercial purpose would affect the underground water table. In fact, the illegal bore well issue dominated …
HYDERABAD: Hand-pump, a convenient contraption for drawing groundwater, particularly in rural areas with little or no surface water supply, has led to a spurt in fluorosis disease in several States, including Andhra Pradesh. A team of doctors and scientists of the Geological Survey of India and the National Institute of …
Indiscriminate sand mining throughout the State, particularly in Dindgul has depleted groundwater sources drastically creating acute shortage of drinking water and water for irrigation, said N. Varadarajan, Central Committee member of Communist Party of India (Marxist). Addressing a meeting near here on Tuesday, he said that agriculture activities had been …
Jamshedpur, Feb. 13: With barely a couple of months to go for another dreaded summer, Seraikela-Kharsawan is experiencing acute water shortage already, the consequence of a depleting underground water level coupled with a poor rainfall last year. An arid landscape devoid of greenery, ponds fast drying up or reduced to …
TIRUCHI: Tamil Nadu is the most critically affected among the Southern States owing to over exploitation of ground water resource, observed D.S.C.Thambi, Regional Director, Central Ground Water Board, Chennai, here on Wednesday. Of the 385 blocks, over 142 blocks were over-exploited in the State. While the western parts of the …
Water table in 9,058 sq km drops by over 20 metres The desertification of central Punjab is feared if its falling water table is any indication. The water table in 9,058 sq km of central Punjab has gone down by more than 20 metres in the past one decade and …
Consumption of contaminated groundwater has taken a toll on the health of Malleswaram South End Road residents. The erratic and insufficient water supply from the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board has compelled the residents of the area to depend on the borewell water. The seepage from the age-old underground …
The paper shows that the assessment of groundwater over-exploitation based on simplistic considerations of aggregate abstraction and recharge provide highly misleading outcomes. The gravity of the problems can be gauged from the extent of well failures, sharp decline in average area irrigated by wells, and increase in energy consumption for …
Call it the fallout of rapid urbanisation or plain negligence of the authorities, groundwater in Dhaka is sinking at an alarming rate. According to a study by the Institute of Water Modelling in Dhaka in 2009, groundwater in the city is going down three metres every year. It has sunk …
Call it the fallout of rapid urbanisation or plain negligence of the authorities, groundwater in Dhaka is sinking at an alarming rate. According to a study by the Institute of Water Modelling in Dhaka in 2009, groundwater in the city is going down three metres every year. It has sunk …
Believe it or not, 90% of the wells in Panjim are contaminated, mainly because the distance between septic tank and wells or ground water tanks are less than the minimum 20 mtrs.
BOUDH: Self help is the best help, so goes the adage. The authorities failed them, their resolve did not. Over 350 farmers of three villages along with their cattle are toiling day in, day out for the last 10 days dredging the dry river bed to tap underground water for …
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 197 of the Jammu and Kashmir Water Resources (Regulation and Management) Act, 2010, the Government hereby make the following rules. These rules may be called the Jammu and Kashmir Water Resources (Regulation and Management), Rules , 2011. They shall come into force …
LUCKNOW: With more than 70 out of 802 blocks in the state labelled as over-exploited, the ground water situation is alarming. However, the menace could be checked by resorting to rain water harvesting and river re-charging. "There are 72 out of 802 blocks where water is over-exploited", said KB Biswas, …
The fast-depleting groundwater table has become a major hurdle for companies planning to set up special economic zones (SEZ) in Gurgaon. At the open house meeting for Export Oriented Units (EOU) and SEZ, organised by the Export Promotion Council here today, SEZ developers expressed concerns over the implications of the …
The average groundwater level in the city has witnessed an increase by two metres in the past six years. The quality of groundwater has also seen an appreciable improvement, according to a recent study of Chennai Metrowater. The average water table in Chennai was 5.42 m during 2005. Successive years …
