Report on behalf of Government of NCT of Delhi through Delhi Jal Board in compliance of NGT order dated December 22, 2023. The matter related to a news report (Hindustan Times, November 30, 2023) on arsenic present in groundwater in 25 states and fluoride in 27 states. Fluoride have been …
The city can look forward to some reprieve from its water woes. The Municipal Corporation (MC) has proposed to lay two pipelines in Kajauli, each with a daily capacity of 40 million gallons (mgd). A part of the modified detailed project of Augmentation of Water Supply Scheme-Phase VII and VIII, …
The winter season is yet to depart fully. Some time back the farmers crops were hit by frost; now, there are also reports of sudden rains in some parts. Now, news is coming that the groundwater level in the State has fallen by 2 to 3 metres. The lake of …
As you read this article, the finance minister would be about to release the Union Budget 2011. The press is busy reflecting the views of business and industry lobbies, as they quibble over duty exemptions, insist on financial stimulus and other incentives, and cry for big-ticket reform
To provide safe drinking water free of uranium and other heavy metals, especially in the rural areas, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today directed the Water Supply and Sanitation Department to immediately get the water samples of tube well-based schemes in all the districts tested from Bhabha Atomic Research …
BEHRAMPORE, 6 FEB: Hundreds of community tube-wells that serve as a source of drinking water are lying defunct for years leading to a drinking water crisis in the drought-hit areas of Murshidabad where the alternative water points also run dry during summer months. A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been …
Punjab to encourage more panchayats to run drinking water schemes in villages The Punjab government has now made heavy metal and uranium tests mandatory for boring a tubewell, besides the 28 tests being carried out at present. And from now, if any village opts for hundred per cent water connection, …
Regulating groundwater use or enforcing law to prevent farmers from sinking borewells in areas where water is not available even at a depth of 150 mts is a difficult task, as it is a social issue, said Principal Secretary, Rural Development and Panchayat Raj P Ravikumar, on Wednesday. Speaking at …
Until the 1940s, the irrigation and drinking water needs of India were met by rivers, ponds, lakes, dugwells, and rainwater sources. However, in the middle of the 20th century India continually faced two daunting challenges: providing food for an ever-growing population and decreasing the burden of highly prevalent water-borne diseases, …
New Delhi: The flooding of the basements in the Games Village proved a major embarrassment for the organizers. But the bountiful monsoon that caused this fiasco also had an upside: this year, Delhi
JAMMU, Nov 11: To deal with water scarcity in various localities of Gandhi Nagar constituency, Minister for Revenue, Relief and Rehabilitation, Raman Bhalla on Thursday convened a meeting of Public Health Engineering (PHE), Economic Reconstruction Agency (ERA) and Planning Department officers to review the progress of various under construction tube …
Chandigarh: In a bid to ensure adequate irrigation facility at Kandi in Punjab, chief minister Parkash Singh Badal has given in-principle approval to install 280 tubewells at a cost of Rs 130 crore. A decision to this effect was taken by Badal in a meeting of senior officers of the …
THE GOVERNMENT ENUNCIATED ITS FIRST National Water Policy in 1987. A revised version was enunciated in 2002. Yet another revision is underway, for which view have been sought. Here are some bold suggestions. First, the new policy should be written for implementation. That cannot be said about water policies of …
Arsenic values in groundwater above the maximum permissible limit of 0.05 mg/l (Indian standards) have been reported from BhagirathiHooghly flood plain region of West Bengal. The present study area Purbasthali I and II blocks in Burdwan district, West Bengal, evolved due to the flood plain forming processes. Many flood plain …
Tango with nature India has been using lakes, ponds and baolis (step wells) since ancient times ('What monsoon means', July 16-31, 2010). Delhi was once replete with water bodies. In the past 50 years, government agencies started disbanding natural ponds, lakes and baolis, declaring their water untested, and therefore, unfit …
KENDRAPARA: WHEN Santosh Mandal built his house in seaside Suniti village under Mahakalapada block three decades back, he sunk a tube well for water. He struck clean water barely at 10 feet depth. Today, water in the tubewell has gone below 70 feet. It is more or less the same …
BURDWAN, 25 AUG: The district administration of Burdwan has been ordered to overhaul the deep tube-well system across the “rice bowl”of Burwan to help extend irrigation facilities ~ however minor ~ to the farmers who braved cultivation despite severe dearth of rainfall this year. The measure, according to the senior …
To tackle the water supply crisis in the city, the civic administration has been flirting dangerously with groundwater reserves by digging borewells in areas where the water table is below normal, or where the water is polluted and saline, in violation of state norms.A report of new borewells dug between …
THE alarming state of the groundwater resources in the country has precipitated some action from the government. An ambitious project to recharge underground aquifers through greater community participation in water conservation is in the works. The department of water resources will map all the aquifers of the country through remote …
GMR Energy, the flagship power venture of the GMR group has started constructing a coal-fired power plant in Raikheda village near Raipur without obtaining environmental clearance. The public hearing for the proposed 1,200 MW thermal plant was held in January last year. The clearance is still under process. When an …
