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 steady progress of the monsoons ought to refocus policy attention on India's deeply stressed water economy. There are fast rising demands on water resources generally, together with poorly governed supply systems, with the result that overall balances are precarious. What is worse, there's increasingly reckless mining of groundwater, and …
Global warming will cast its calamitous effect on India too. The Himalayan glaciers would melt leading to massive flood in rivers, Karnataka State Pollution Control Board chairman A S Sadashivaiah has said. for secure earth Karnataka State Pollution Control Board chairman A S Sadashivaiah watering a plant to inaugurate World …
Where there is a will there is a way. Punjab can reduce the area under paddy and arrest the fall in its groundwater; it only needs the political will to do so. Sadly, this political will is lacking in this government as was the case with the previous Congress one, …
That India is on the verge of a serious water crisis is a foregone conclusion. So much so that the possibility of water riots in the future can't be ruled out. And it's not that the farmers of Vidarbha in Maharashtra or Bundelkhand in Uttar Pradesh are the only casualties …
This paper by AR Shivakumar of Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology was presented at a national seminar organised by ISRO at NIAS Bangalore in 2010. It highlights the grave water situation in the city where the water demand is ever on the increase with the increasing population. This …
The Chief Minister, Mr V.S. Achuthanandan, said on Wednesday that the report of a committee recommending payment of compensation to those affected by the operation of Hindustan Coca Cola Beverages plant at Plachimada is under consideration of the Cabinet. The committee, headed by Mr K. Jayakumar, Additional Chief Secretary, submitted …
WITH the introduction of short-term, high-yielding varieties of cereal and oil-seed crops, the cropping intensity has now reached almost 300 per cent in Punjab. Moreover, the intensive use of chemical fertilisers, insecticides and pesticides involve greater use of scarce groundwater resources. The water table has gone down alarmingly resulting in …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has decided to dig 5,000 deep borewells in the drought prone areas for the proper utilisation of ground water resources for irrigation purposes. A decision to this effect was taken at a high level meeting presided over by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik at the Secretariat here …
Fighting for water is not as rare as we think it is. Brawls and loss of life are reported every summer from different parts of the country. Yet, there is very little urgency about using water more efficiently. VIBHA SHARMA reports on the worsening situation * DIAMONDS AND OIL ETC …
New Delhi: The groundwater levels in the city are plunging to such an extent that many parts of Delhi have already gone dry. Largescale exploitation of groundwater has led to a colossal problem of water availability in the city. The only viable way to preserve it, or at least replenish …
Water from the Cauvery is not enough for the city Dedicated water supply scheme already sanctioned It has been delayed by administrative issues For more water: Work on sinking borewells in progress at Maruthi Nagar in Salem on Thursday. SALEM: To meet the drinking water scarcity, Salem Corporation has undertaken …
The Water Resources Department of the State Government has invited entries for the underground water regeneration award and National Water Award till June 15, 2010. In this regard the water resources department of the state government has sent letters to seven departments of the government and invited proposals from them …
MUMBAI: Water-starved Mumbai is seeing a rush for borewells as well as water tankers. The BMC has built 511 new borewells in just two months. Meanwhile, the demand for tankers in a city burdened by a 15% water cut has seen around 100 new tankers added to the fleet of …
The Sasthamkotta lake, the source of drinking water for seven lakh people in Kerala's Kollam district, is shrinking fast. JULIA lives in a working-class housing colony at Rajagiri, on the edge of a laterite mound, one among the three dozen such hillocks overlooking the Sasthamkotta lake, about 30 kilometres from …
Try economic pricing to save water Water, water everywhere, and so many committees to deal with it. On top of so many ministries and committees that think about water, the government has decided that India needs a Water Mission. Apart from the water resources ministry, the ministries of rural development, …
Bhopal: The Water Resources Department of the State Government has invited entries for the underground water regeneration award and National Water Award till June 15, 2010. In this regard the water resources department of the state government has sent letters to seven departments of the government and invited proposals from …
