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 …
Groundwater, which has emerged as India's prime adaptive mechanism in times of drought, will play a crucial role this year since the aquifers were recharged in 2006-08. The impact of the drought of 2009 will therefore be less severe than the drought of 2002. Beyond the immediate response, we need …
The loss environment is the main reason for the depletion of groundwater in the district, noted Taluk Panchayat President K R Reddy. He was speaking after inaugurating
KOCHI: The groundwater Department is upbeat as the rain water harvesting programme introduced in the State four years ago has started yielding positive results with the groundwater level in several parts of the district showing signs of improvement. In Ernakulam district, the department had bored 62 observatory wells in the …
Sessions to be held at the centre at Ayanavaram till October-end Status check: With northeast monsoon a few weeks away, it is time again to check RWH structures to continue to reap benefits from them. A view of the Metrowater
Has our insatiable hunger for development and unquenchable thirst for water put us at the risk of running out of this resource. The answer is obvious if recent expert surveys that point to fast depleting ground water levels are to be believed.
This paper will first provide a synoptic account of the problems relating to water; from that diagnostic statement it will proceed to an adumbration of the responses needed and the changes in water policy that they call for; and it will then outline the water law reform that this requires. …
With several parts of the country already reeling under drought, scientists in the United States have found that groundwater levels in North Indian cities, including Delhi, are declining by as much as a foot per year over the past decade. Scientists, with the help of NASA satellite data, have found …
CHENNAI: The Central Government will soon introduce a bill to make rain water harvesting compulsory throughout the country. The bill is being fine-tuned by the Ministry of Water Resources for introduction in Parliament, said N. Vardraj, Regional Director, Central Ground Water Board, here on Friday. Participating in a workshop on
Northrop Grumman Corp on Thursday reached a settlement with U.S. environmental regulators that requires the aerospace giant to spend about $21 million to clean up groundwater pollution dating from World War II manufacturing through the 1980s. Northrop operated three of 62 "source properties" that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) …
Climate change will lead to significant changes of groundwater recharge and thus renewable groundwater resources. Using the global water resources and use model WaterGAP, the impact of climate change on groundwater recharge and the number of affected people was computed for four climate scenarios by two climate models. Vulnerability of …
SATINATH SARANGI, 55, had planned to stay for a week. Decades later, he is still fighting on behalf of those affected by the gas tragedy HOW DOES a nation come to make swine flu the most talked about disease while 900 people die of TB everyday? Is the number of …
LUCKNOW: Call it an irony of sorts. At a time when there is brouhaha over the depleting ground water table, the central ground water board (CGWB) has revealed a huge ground water reservoir hidden deep within the earth's crust. Virtually untapped, the extent of this reservoir in UP alone is …
A Nasa mission revealed Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan lost 109 cubic km of water in six years. With pumps being sunk in ever deeper, a bad monsoon has only shown how close to the edge we live Rajeev Deshpande & Nitin Sethi Nasa's twin GRACE satellites orbitting the earth in …
LUCKNOW: The state capital is losing six lakh litres of groundwater reserves daily because of indiscriminate extraction. This poses threat of massive land subsidence in next 15 years. Apart from Narhi, Charbagh and Rajajipuram, on the top of the list of areas under danger zone is Gomtinagar, one of city's …
Disappearing ground water could be the mother of all crises A study based on satellite imagery, by the US National Aeronautical and Space Administration (Nasa), says that North India
