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 …
LGRD Minister Syed Ashraful Islam yesterday said many ambassadors are expressing willingness to invest in water treatment plants but the process is delayed by the Economic Relations Division of the finance ministry. "We have placed it before the prime minister as to how it (foreign investment) can be easily processed …
Thane: Contaminated water from four borewells in Bhiwandi has triggered a spate of gastroenteritis. The Bhiwandi-Nizampur Municipal Corporation (BNMC) has sealed the borewells. Two were dug by BNMC and the other two by a local resident, Mamuchi. Prakash Borse, civic commissioner, Bhiwandi said, "Laboratory tests of water sample collected from …
Eight Years After HC Order, Very Few Buildings Have Installed Structures New Delhi: In 2001, the Delhi High Court asked the government to make rainwater harvesting compulsory in the city. Eight years on, the situation remains alarming. The groundwater level is dropping by the day and the government refuses to …
IN Karachi, Hyderabad and Sukkur, one finds neglected and stagnant water ponds in almost every locality. These ponds are the result of an effluent from a community, or groundwater upward seepage due to capillary action, or canal water seepage (in case of Hyderabad and Sukkur), or water received from diffused …
Lucknow: The chronic drinking water shortage in the city may soon be a matter of the past as the civic authorities have came up with several measures to solve the perennial problem in the city. According to secretary, Jal Sansthan, Raghvendra Kumar, the officials were asked to identify areas facing …
Apex court lets state government decide THE Supreme Court on March 19 asked the Haryana government to ban mining activites in the Aravalis if it felt the eco-system of the mountain range is getting destroyed. Amicus curiae (friend of the court) Ranjit Kumar, along with many lawyers though pressed for …
The total volume of water on earth: 104 crore km3. The volume of accessible freshwater: 90 lakh km3. In a few decades, that might not be enough to sustain the entire humanity, warn UN agencies.
RE-EXCAVATION of derelict ponds and canals will bring economic and health benefits to the people making way for the utilisation of old wisdom and indigenous knowledge and technologies on water management. A recent study on the potentials of the water bodies in the Barind area of the country called for …
Excessive use of underground water of the capital through deep tube wells, and filling up of low-lying land, canals and water bodies are causing the underground water level to drop alarmingly. Experts say that this could put the city dwellers in severe water crisis in future and also cause land …
Labour and Expatriates' Welfare Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain yesterday said open pit mining in the North Bengal's coal mines would help solve not only power problems, but also check desertification in that region.
Excessive use of underground water of the capital through deep tube wells, and filling up of low-lying land, canals and water bodies are causing the underground water level to drop alarmingly. Experts say that this could put the city dwellers in severe water crisis in future and also cause land …
Shimla: Groundwater resources in some highly stressed areas are being overexploited even after the enactment of the Himachal Pradesh Groundwater (Regulation and Control of Development and Management) Act because of the failure of the government to notify such areas. Last year, a study was conducted to ascertain the existing status …
Water deep below ground has safely trapped carbon dioxide for millions of years and may one day help absorb emissions of the greenhouse gas to help slow climate change, researchers said Wednesday. The finding shows that such carbon capture and storage is possible provided scientists find an area where the …
The physicochemical parameters and trace metal contents of water samples from Delhi were assessed. A total of 20 water samples were collected from boring, tube well and hand pump and analyzed for the various physicochemical parameters like pH, conductivity, total dissolved solid, total alkalinity, Ca2+ and Mg2+ hardness, chloride ion, …
Malta has a serious nitrate pollution problem. But where is it all coming from? Marianne Stuart traces the source from the underground galleries to farmer
New Delhi: These are essential in places where there is no piped water supply, says DJB CEO Ramesh Negi In a reversal of an earlier ban on digging borewells anywhere in the Capital, the Delhi Government on Tuesday issued a notification, permitting the use of borewells to extract groundwater. The …
This report addresses one of the greatest shortcomings of water resource development projects: the inadequate protection of environmental flow conditions in rivers, lakes, wetlands, estuaries, and groundwater systems. This deficiency has affected hundreds of millions of people whose lifestyles and well-being depend upon natural ecosystem services provided by healthy freshwater …
