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 decline of groundwater levels in India by 5-10 m is usually explained as a result of the increased number of tubewells and a decline in average annual rainfall. This article argues that the decline is the product of the destruction of indigenous systems for storing runoff water, which are …
Rainfall variability is a key constraint to agricultural production and economic growth in many developing countries. This is likely to be exacerbated in many places as rainfall variability is amplified (even where the total amount of rain increases) as a result of climate change. Changes in rainfall will also increase …
MAHABUBNAGAR A Shekhar, 25, committed suicide a year ago. A resident of Burgupalle village in Andhra Pradesh’s Mahabub - nagar district, he had bought half a hectare (ha) for growing paddy. He borrowed Rs 1.5 lakh to sink three borewells but did not find groundwater. Shekhar could not repay the …
The Water, Land and Trees Act (WALTA) was enacted in 2002. Meant to regulate groundwater use, the Act requires farmers to register their borewells with the mandal revenue office after getting clearance from the district groundwater office. Farmers like Muniratnam Naidu in Chittoor district laugh at the idea of taking …
The quantum of groundwater Andhra Pradesh received earlier from 100,000 borewells is now obtained by drilling 260,000 borewells, said A K Jain, special secretary to the state’s irrigation and command area development department. B Peddiraji, tehsildar of Butchayyapeta in Visakhapatnam district, added there is tremendous pressure on groundwater, with the …
The million-odd users of groundwater in Andhra Pradesh need a new form of regulation, everybody agrees. The system based on permits—under WALTA—only adds to the transaction cost of farmers. The fact is there is a desperation to dig and then dig deeper. There is no estimation how much the farmers—private …
Arsenic contamination in groundwater has become alarming in Bagerhat and adjacent areas in recent times. Arsenic related diseases since 2006 claimed 20 lives and affected over a thousand people, a local non-governmental organisation sources said as a survey they conducted since 2006. Bagerhat Civil Surgeon Tapan Kumar Shil said they …
'I am planning to write a letter to mayor requesting him not to sink more borewells in the City. The groundwater level in the City is already low. Sinking more borewells is not a good idea,' said Bangalore University Vice-Chancellor Prabhu Dev on Tuesday. Addressing the media to announce the …
BHUBANESWAR: Parliamentary Affairs and Industries Minister Raghunath Mohanty today told the Assembly that the State Government would formulate a policy on the use of groundwater for industrial purposes and industries using groundwater illegally will be taken to task. Replying to the demand discussion of the Water Resources Department on behalf …
India should strengthen its engagement with the monsoon, harvesting the rain, saving every drop of it There is one thing synonymous with being Indian that spans both urban and rural India, and transcends the rich-and-poor divide: The annual watch and wait for the monsoon. It begins every year without fail …
A COMMITTEE of Parliament visited the slaughterhouse in Meerut on June 10 to enquire if it was polluting the Kali Nadi river that flows through the city. A seasonal river that once provided irrigation and drinking water to 44 villages in Meerut district of Uttar Pradesh, Kali Nadi has turned …
A Committee of Parliament visited the slaughterhouse in Meerut on June 10 to enquire if it was polluting the Kali Nadi river that flows through the city. A seasonal river that once provided irrigation and drinking water to 44 villages in Meerut district of Uttar Pradesh, Kali Nadi has turned …
K. V. Prasad Rain water harvesting models, right from the Mohenjo-daro and Harappa civilisations, will be on display at a two-day exhibition at the V.O.C. Grounds here on July 17 and 18. Former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam will inaugurate the event on July 17. Siruthuli, a public initiative to conserve …
On the grimy, filth-lined streets of Bhopal's walled city that were stalked by death more than 25 years back, the outrage following the June 7 judgement in the gas tragedy criminal case by a local Chief Judicial Magistrate's (CJM) court has slowly made way for quiet dejection. In the prevailing …
G. Prabhakaran Demand to set up tribunal to decide on compensation People's struggle is supported by environmentalists PALAKKAD: The agitation against alleged exploitation of groundwater by soft drink major Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt. Ltd. at Plachimada, a remote village in Perumatty grama panchayat in Chittur taluk, completed 3,000 days on …
Rain water harvesting is one of the most important measures needed to be undertaken, states FREDDY DIAS Goa gets about 3,000 millimetres of rainfall annually. Out of this, only about one-fourth of this is actually usable, as the rest runs off into the Arabian Sea. The State has a storage …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Groundwater levels in Pudussery grama panchayat, Palakkad, where Pepsico has its unit, are falling, the Assembly was told on Thursday. In a written reply to the House, Water Resources Minister N K Premachandran said that water levels in the observation well at the Pudussery grama panchayat office showed a …
