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 purpose of this water footprint assessment is to provide Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd (JISL) with a framework to measure and report on the water footprints of its products, assess the potential influence of those footprints on local hydrologic systems, assess potential social and ecological impacts, and identify possible response …
This paper attempts to give a spatial and temporal overview of water management in India. It traces how people and the successive regimes made choices across space and time from a wide range of water control and distribution technologies. The paper divides the water anagement in India into four periods: …
A BILL to facilitate and ensure sustainable and adequate supply of groundwater of prescribed quality, for various category of users, through supply and demand management measures, protecting public drinking water sources and to establish the State Groundwater Authority and District Level Authorities to manage and to regulate, with community participation, …
Metrowater launches awareness meetings on rainwater harvesting structures CHENNAI: The average groundwater level in the city has gone up by 0.2 metre since July. The level was 3.5 metre in June, senior officials of Chennai Metrowater said here recently and attributed the increase to the southwest monsoon. They were speaking …
Largest user of groundwater is India: World BankLauds Andhra model of self-regulationTHIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A World Bank report has expressed concern at the over-exploitation of groundwater in India.The report carried in a recent issue of the publication
With the rain beating down hard on the capital this season, the city roads have been caving-in left, right and centre. Even the posh New Delhi area has seen a spate of such incidents raising questions over the quality of roads, particularly as that they are being re-done and improved …
Bangladesh will face severe water challenge within next couple of decades due to random contamination of surface and underground water, absence of comprehensive water sharing with neighboring countries and mismanagement in preserving rain water. According to water experts, although the whole world is seriously thinking of conserving their water resources …
Nellore, Aug. 18: Groundwater levels have increased considerably in Nellore district in the recent past. Unlike other parts of the state, Nellore region usually experiences rains during the northeast monsoon between October and December. However, for the first time in the last 10 years, rains lashed the district during the …
KOLKATA, 17 AUG: A casual approach to a serious civic issue, the rampant misuse of groundwater, might lead to massive subsidence in the city in the near future, engineers and geologists spoken to by The Statesman have said. Though the cave-in on Council House Street today was due to the …
Devika Banerji / New Delhi August 13, 2010, 3:46 ISTRapidly depleting water tables have prompted the Planning Commission to work on an integrated regulatory mechanism to manage water resources. This would require setting up of regulatory bodies both at the state and Center.Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had briefed the plan …
Water is leaking out from the ground in Azad Maidan near CST and Marine Lines. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), which took note of the surface run-off recently, has now asked a consultant geologist to look into what might be causing the phenomenon.SK Gupta, a consultant geologist who has already …
In its action plan on water security, the Planning Commission will likely recommend a cess on the use of groundwater. The quantum of cess will be state-specific and will depend on the volume of water used by farmers.Mihir Shah, Member, Planning Commission, told The Indian Express that the proposed action …
Former union minister T R Baalu's attempts to revive a distillery near his village in Thanjavur District of Tamil Nadu has been halted. On July 15, the Madras High Court, while passing a restraint order against grant of environmental clearance to the project, asked the Ministry of Environment and Forests …
Yagnesh Mehta | TNNSurat: In a first of its kind experiment in the country to scale ground water recharge, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (SVNIT) has achieved success. Since the beginning of this monsoon, SVNIT
To tackle the water supply crisis in the city, the civic administration has been flirting dangerously with groundwater reserves by digging borewells in areas where the water table is below normal, or where the water is polluted and saline, in violation of state norms.A report of new borewells dug between …
The Andhra Government intends to check depleting groundwater levels by roping in farmers to monitor its use. Monya and Ashutosh Mishra wonder if it will result in a shift to less water intensive cropsShekhar, 25, committed suicide a year ago. A resident of Burgupalle village in Andhra Pradesh's Mahabubnagar district, …
Zilla Panchayat Chief Executive Officer Kodipalya Krishnappa directed officials to prioritise forestry and rejuvenation of ground water under the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGREGS). He was interacting with officials during a review meeting organised to assess the progress of various projects in the Taluk Panchayat. Krishnappa also directed …
THE alarming state of the groundwater resources in the country has precipitated some action from the government. An ambitious project to recharge underground aquifers through greater community participation in water conservation is in the works. The department of water resources will map all the aquifers of the country through remote …
Governments and law-makers need to integrate environmental concerns into water-use legislation to avert an impending global water crisis, according to this new UNEP report launched at World Water Week in Stockholm. The greening of water law is both a theoretical and practical effort to implement that harmony through modification of …
July 31: The East Godavari district with a total population of 55 lakh is spread over 60 mandals, out of which seven are in Agency area, and the rest are upland and plain areas. Of this area, as much as 7 lakh acres of land is under cultivation. Paddy cultivation …
