Preliminary report of the Amicus Curiae, Swati Mehta in the matter of Priyanshu Gupta Vs State of Madhya Pradesh dated 28/08/2023. The Original Application was registered by the NGT by taking suo moto cognizance based on a letter petition dated April 12, 2023 pertaining to several water bodies (baolis or …
India has good average annual precipitation, but its poor distribution in space and time has led to the scarcity of groundwater in many areas. Artificial recharge to groundwater requires a composite procedure along with detailed morphometric and hydrogeological studies of the area. In Maharashtra State, a programme was initiated to …
MUMBAI: Faced with an unprecedented water crisis, the BMC is considering different options to be able to sail smoothly next year. Not only has it cleaned and repaired its borewells and dug wells, but it will also set up filtration plants at those spots. According to officials, the wells will …
Mumbai: At a time when the city is facing a scarcity of water, more than 400 wells with potable drinking water have been found to be filled with debris in the Andheri area alone. The K-West ward office of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has a record of at least …
Physico-chemical and biological monitoring of groundwater samples of various wells situated near Rajaula village, Chitrakoot (Satna) Madhya Pradesh was carried out.
Shashikant Trivedi / Bhopal July 23, 2009, 0:39 IST In Toomda village near Bhopal, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (NREGP) is synonymous with
Pune The Groundwater Surveys and Development Agency (GSDA) has some good news for the city reeling under water shortage. It has identified a total of 399 dugwells and 4,820 borewells in Pune, which can be useful in this current situation. Of these, over 155 dugwells and 1,575 borewells have been …
VILLUPURAM: The State government has launched a scheme to recharge open farm wells by installing rainwater harvesting systems. To encourage farmers to do so the government is giving grants, according to R.Palanisamy, District Collector. Reviewing the implementation of the scheme, Mr. Palanisamy said there were 1,34,565 open farm-wells in the …
Along the dry Amaravathy riverbed These wells were sunk for drawing and selling water for drinking purposes and industrial use Illegal wells numbering over fifty are found in Andankoil East and West, Pallapalayam KARUR: After a rather long wait, the authorities have moved in to clear the over 50 illegal …
K. Manikandan ILLEGAL ACTION: Extraction of water from farm-wells has a bearing on the groundwater level in the neighbourhood. A tanker lorry being filled with water in IIT Colony, Narayanapuram, in Pallikaranai.
Hemant Kumar Kalka, May 12 Due to the negligent attitude of the department of Haryana water supply and sanitation, the project of setting up of four tubewells, boosting stations and water pipelines in Pinjore town to cope with the water scarcity problem is hanging fire for more than three years. …
Large tracts of paddy fields have been inundated and about 35 wells in Kushem Waddo, Aldona, has been polluted by the flow of saline water, as the 250-metre bundh near ferry wharf in Corjuem (Aldona) has breached at seven places. According to sources, during the high tide the saline water …
Hydro-fracturing is one way of cleaning the blockage in the fissure and releasing water back into the bore wells Many of these bore wells have yielded well in the past but now are dry. This is true of almost all the Southern states. When these life providing bore wells fail …
HNB extended the safe drinking water and sanitation project to Gonewa, a village in the Rambewa Divisional Secretariat, about 22 kms from Anuradhapura. The villagers in Gonewa lacked sufficient sanitation facilities and access to fresh water prior to the launch of this project, a media release said. The release said …
MORMUGAO, APRIL 4 — Mormugao Deputy Collector Levinson Martins convened a review meeting on Friday in connection with the seepage of an unidentified petroleum product in two wells at Pilmaad Bogmallo. Chicolna-Bogmallo Sarpanch Laximan Kavlekar informed Martins that the seepage continued even though Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) had pumped out …
P. Sudhakar TIRUNELVELI: Residents living under Melapalayam and Tirunelveli zones of the Corporation may face acute drinking water crisis in the next few days as a portion of the sandbags that diverted water from the Tamirabharani towards the infiltration wells sunk in the perennial river has been removed by the …
Wagarwadi watershed of Parbhani district falls under semi-arid tropics of basaltic terrain. The water balance components were analysed to find out the ground water recharge, which is the main input to the aquifer MODFLOW. Well characteristics like transmissivity and specific yield were determined by carrying out the pumping test. The …
A large agricultural area located in 20 km north of the city of Mashhad in the north-east of Iran is subject to land subsidence. The subsidence rate was achieved in a couple of sparse points by precise leveling between 1995 and 2005, and continuous GPS measurements obtained from 2005 to …
