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 …
Ground Water Year Book is prepared annually by CGWB depicting changes in ground water regime of the country through different seasons. It is an effort to obtain information on ground water levels through representative monitoring wells. The important attributes of ground water regime monitoring are ground water level. The natural …
Report filed by the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board in the matter of Vijaysigh Dubbal & Others Vs MPCB & Others dated 27/10/2022. The matter related to illegal extraction of groundwater by units involved in water selling business. The SPCB report said that it has issued directions to 433 Municipal Corporations/ …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Arti Vs Central Ground Water Authority & Others dated 17/10/2022. The matter related to unauthorized withdrawal of groundwater in major cities of Uttar Pradesh. The court noted that there is large scale illegal extraction of groundwater in Uttar Pradesh by …
Joint committees have been constituted to find out hotels, marriage/banquet halls, resorts, guest houses in Lucknow, Agra, Meerut, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Bareilly, Varanasi, Jhansi and Gorakhpur abstracting groundwater without NOC from the competent authority. This was stated in the action taken report on behalf of the Central Ground Water Authority …
This publication on Youth and Water Security in Africa, which comprises 25-refereed articles co-authored by youth including female scientists primarily from Africa, derives from collaboration among UNESCO, the African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW) and the International Science Council (ISC) Regional Office for Africa (ROA). Scientists, engineers, researchers, and policy-makers …
Monitoring of ground water levels from 768 (745+23) Hydrograph Network Stations (HNS) were carried out in the year 2021-2022 with an objective to assess ground water regime of phreatic aquifer. The water level monitoring was carried out manually in the months of May’19, August’19, November’19, and January’20. The ground water …
Ground Water Year Book is the basic data report consisting information regarding the ground water regime, depth to water levels and quality and their variations in space and time compiled and analyzed based on the information generated through field studies. The data has been analyzed by officers of Central Ground …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Varun Vs Central Pollution Control Board & Others dated 18/08/2022. The grievance in the application is that despite the NGT order, March 5, 2021 which found that the industrial units in question functioning at Barhi industrial area in district Sonipat, …
A Bill further to amend the Goa Ground Water Regulation Act, 2002 (Act 1 of 2002). This Act may be called the Goa Ground Water Regulation (Amendment) Act, 2022. It extends to the whole of the State of Goa.
The SDG indicator 6.3.2 (SDG 632) methodology helps countries to report on ambient water quality in a consistent and straightforward manner and has undergone several iterations since conception in 2016. Gathering feedback from those tasked with reporting for their country ensures that the SDG indicators maintain their relevance and that …
Report filed before the National Green Tribunal (NGT) containing revised directions issued by the Central Pollution Control Board in OA No. 661 of 2018 (Praveen Kakkar Vs MoEF&CC & Others). The matter related to violation of rules by Ansal Properties and Infrastructure Ltd in the setting up of a residential …
Factual and action taken report by joint committee comprising the Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board, District Magistrate, Indore Commissioner, Indore Municipal Corporation and Member Secretary, Central Ground Water Authority in compliance to the National Green Tribunal order, March 29, 2022. The matter was taken by the Green Tribunal in the …
Central Ground Water Board, North Central Region, Bhopal monitors ground water level in the state of Madhya Pradesh through a network of 1482 ground water monitoring dug wells and piezometers, four times in a year in order to bring out the spatial and temporal changes in the ground water regime. …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Umang Diaries Ltd. Vs Kapil & Others dated 11/04/2022. The NGT, February 25, 2022 had directed Umang Diaries to pay Rs. 4,85,44,000/- as environmental compensation within one month to the Central Pollution Control Board for causing pollution and extracting …
While groundwater accounts for 99 per cent of all running freshwater on Earth, it is often undervalued, mismanaged, and overexploited, according to this report published by the UNESCO. Groundwater accounts for 99% of all liquid freshwater on Earth. However, this natural resource is often poorly understood and consequently undervalued, mismanaged …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Arti Vs Central Ground Water Authority & Others dated 25/02/2022. The matter related to the condition of ground water in district Ghaziabad with all the four blocks in the district coming under over-stressed category. Ground water is depleting very rapidly …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Sushil Bhatt Vs Moon Beverages Ltd & Others dated 25/02/2022. The matter deals with the notification, September 24, 2020 laying down guidelines to regulate and control ground water abstraction in India and exploitation of groundwater in stressed areas by industries …
Judgment of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Abdul Farukh Vs Government of NCT of Delhi dated 25/02/2022. The matter related to misuse of a Delhi Jal Board borewell in village Chandanhulla by private tankers. The borewell is being used for commercial supply of water. The NGT directed …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Kapil Vs Central Pollution Control Board & Others dated 25/02/2022. An application was filed in the NGT against M/s. Umang Dairies Limited, Hasanpur road, Gajraula, district Amroha, Uttar Pradesh for causing pollution and extracting groundwater and operating a dairy plant …
Judgment of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nand Kumar Vs Govt. of NCT of Delhi dated 25/02/2022. The matter related to illegal and unauthorized abstraction of ground water. The Tribunal, November 1, 2019 constituted a joint committee comprising Deputy Commissioner, South and Delhi Jal Board to look …
