Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
NEW DELHI: The environmental clearance for the Rs.15,000-crore Vedanta University project has been put on hold by the Central government to re-examine allegations of illegal activities by the promoters. On April 16, the Union Ministry for Environment and Forests had issued an environmental and Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) clearance to …
Debabrata mohanty Bhubaneswar: The controversial Vedanta University project, proposed to built on Puri-Konark marine drive, has been pushed into limbo after the environment and forests ministry on Tuesday decided to keep the conditional environmental and coastal regulatory zone (CRZ) clearance in abeyance over allegations of irregularities, illegal and unlawful deeds …
Rahul Wadke The Maharashtra Government's ambitious project of setting up one lakh farm ponds across the State this year has received good response. More than 50,000 ponds will be constructed before the onset of this monsoon. Of the budgeted outlay of Rs 300 crore, about Rs 160 crore has already …
This report by ACWADAM is a synopsis of the hydrogeological study carried out for Bird-K in Pavagada, Sira and Bagepalli areas, Tumkur District, Karnataka. The study aimed at an impact analysis of recharge through borewells as well as suggesting new sites for the same. The principle objectives of the study …
Bhakti V Hegde Mangalore, April 26, DHNS Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat is thinking on innovative lines. With its water recharge project initiated at Munnur and Kolnad Gram Panchayats becoming a success, it is all set to extend the project to 13 other villages which have acute shortage of drinking water …
Chandigarh: The Haryana government has adopted a two-pronged strategy to increase water table in the state. While one aspect of the plan involves a slew of quick-fire measures across the rural-urban divide aimed at harvesting and recharging this precious but drying up resource; the other revolves around a massive campaign …
April 21: MPs cutting across party lines expressed concern on the depleting ground water levels in the country and asked the government to take immediate steps to boost reservoirs. Dhananjay Singh of the BSP in his supplementary asked water resources minister Pawan Kumar Bansal if there were statistics to show …
The Jalabhishek Abhiyan bas been specially focused this year on recharging of dried up rivers, nullahs and reservoirs. On this these, jal yatras will be taken out throughout the state for recharging of dried up water sources. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will launch the statewide campaign at Ratlam by …
"The Real Green Revolution is about rainwater harvesting. Let us catch water where it falls. Let it transform human lives. Let it change social existence. If this happens, the world will be transformed. The world will merely be Green by rainwater harvesting-democracies." Looking to the summer ahead Many MP cities …
Bill To Be Tabled In Next Assembly Session New Delhi: Using grounwater without any care in the world? Your happiness may be short-lived. After much resistance from the opposition, the Sheila Dikshit government is determined to push the groundwater Bill that will make extraction of the precious resource chargeable. Speaking …
Radiogenic isotopes (3H and 14C) and stable isotope (18O) together with TDS, EC and salinity of water were used to discriminate qualitative and quantitative groundwater age, probable recharge time, flow respectively in groundwater of Challaghatta valley, Bangalore. The variations between TDS and EC values of sewage, corporation water, bore and …
The revised National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP) Guidelines 2009-2012 issued by Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission, Department of Drinking Water Supply has shifted the focus from source development and installation of water supply system for providing drinking water supply to rural household to focus on development of village …
Rainfall is the major source of recharge to groundwater aquifers in Kerala. Most of the rainfall is received during a six months period, leaving the remaining six months between December and January to May as almost dry months. The rainfall amount and distribution pattern in any given year determines the …
Pune Last year this time, around three villages and 10 wadis in Pune district was receiving water via tankers. This figure was in unison with the groundwater level in the district that later dropped to an average of 6.17 metres in May last year. This year has been an exception. …
The idea of groundwater recharging by harvesting rainwater is gaining ground in many cities and it is the only way to address the global water crisis After an extended winter, a scorching summer is setting in and one can feel the heat, literally. And, like in the past, we may …
Project may be answer to depleting water table PANJIM, MARCH 22 The wanton depletion of water table in the Verna Industrial Estate due to digging of bore wells may have an answer in the rainwater harvesting and ground water recharge project for which a multi-disciplinary team has identified around 20 …
The Haryana State Flood Control Board on Wednesday approved 66 schemes to be implemented by the Irrigation Department and 20 schemes by the Public Health Engineering Department. Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda directed that the schemes be implemented district-wise. He also emphasised the need for focusing on construction of water …
THE mavens are beginning to study and report on the water economy like never before. A recent study calls for pragmatic action to address groundwater exploitation in India. As the report mentions, groundwater has become the primary source of water today with widespread use of private wells, and over 60% …
