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 …
M K Das If the issue is one of accountability, then equity demands that the accomplices are as much guilty as the perpetrator A little known fact is that Coca-Cola was virtually wooed to the state by the then LDF government and its industries minister Susheela Gopalan. It was also …
Kalpana Jain / New Delhi April 23, 2010, 0:58 IST Industry may soon have to pay a lot more for the water it uses. The Union government is in talks with various state governments to draft a model Bill that would lead to a multi-fold increase in water charges for …
Chandigarh: The Haryana government has adopted a two-pronged strategy to increase water table in the state. While one aspect of the plan involves a slew of quick-fire measures across the rural-urban divide aimed at harvesting and recharging this precious but drying up resource; the other revolves around a massive campaign …
April 21: MPs cutting across party lines expressed concern on the depleting ground water levels in the country and asked the government to take immediate steps to boost reservoirs. Dhananjay Singh of the BSP in his supplementary asked water resources minister Pawan Kumar Bansal if there were statistics to show …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: An organisation that had spearheaded the agitation against the Coca-Cola bottling plant at Plachimada village in Palakkad district has urged the government to initiate legal measures to force the multinational soft drink company to pay compensation to the people of the village affected by the environmental damage the bottling …
With an aim to recharge the ground water table in parched Sonebhadra region state government has decided to build 1500 check dams at the cost of Rs 450 crore in this district. Chief Secretary Atul Kumar Gupta who led a delegation of senior officials to Sonebhadra on Monday to get …
PUDUCHERRY: A State Water Resources Data Centre and a level II+ laboratory building will come up under the Hydrology Project-II at an estimated cost of Rs. 3.25 crore. Chief Minister V. Vaithilingam inaugurated the construction work for the facilities on Sunday. The State Water Resources Data Centre and laboratory building …
Use of high-capacity pumps for irrigation is lowering the groundwater table across the country to dangerous levels, says BHAVDEEP KANG IN THE Burhanpur district of central India, wealthy banana farmers draw water from depths of 700 to 800 feet, or lay individual pipelines 2-3 km long to irrigate their fields. …
MUMBAI: A day after three persons fell into a borewell in Mahim and died, the BMC on Friday issued an order that it was mandatory to secure its permission to dig borewells in the city. If the correct procedure is not followed, Mumbaikars will be liable to punishment. It was …
Coca-cola has been asked to pay Rs 216.26 crore against damages caused by its cola bottling plant at Plachimada. On March 22, a high powered committee of the Kerala government recomended the cola giant should compensate people for polluting their water resources. The sum is meant to compensate for agricultural …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has decided to install tube wells in every block of the State to deal with the shortage of drinking water in rural areas in during the summer. A decision to this effect was taken at a high level meeting presided over by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik …
The Jalabhishek Abhiyan bas been specially focused this year on recharging of dried up rivers, nullahs and reservoirs. On this these, jal yatras will be taken out throughout the state for recharging of dried up water sources. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will launch the statewide campaign at Ratlam by …
"The Real Green Revolution is about rainwater harvesting. Let us catch water where it falls. Let it transform human lives. Let it change social existence. If this happens, the world will be transformed. The world will merely be Green by rainwater harvesting-democracies." Looking to the summer ahead Many MP cities …
Bill To Be Tabled In Next Assembly Session New Delhi: Using grounwater without any care in the world? Your happiness may be short-lived. After much resistance from the opposition, the Sheila Dikshit government is determined to push the groundwater Bill that will make extraction of the precious resource chargeable. Speaking …
To Madhuraj, the camera is a third eye. His Water Plunder exposes the large-scale exploitation of drinking water by MNCs and the resistance put up by the village communities against this, notes K A Antony For eight years now, the people of Plachimada, an otherwise nonde script village in north-central …
Almost 90 per cent of the residents are depending on their own borewells THE groundwater level in Hosur industrial town has depleted below 1,000 feet, thanks to the negligence by the Municipality and Public Works Department (PWD) in maintaining Ramanaicken lake, the major water source at the centre of the …
In the Rural Water Supply (RWS) sector sustainability of drinking water sources and systems are a major issue. As a consequence, ensuring availability of drinking water both in terms of adequacy and quality, on a sustainable basis, is the major challenge. Water quality is impacted due to ground water table …
Rainfall is the major source of recharge to groundwater aquifers in Kerala. Most of the rainfall is received during a six months period, leaving the remaining six months between December and January to May as almost dry months. The rainfall amount and distribution pattern in any given year determines the …
