The global cost of disasters is growing: The economic burden of disasters is intensifying. While the direct costs of disasters averaged $70–80 billion a year between 1970 and 2000, between 2001 and 2020 these annual costs grew significantly to $180–200 billion. But the real cost is far higher. Disaster costs …
C. Gouridasan Nair THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The government is planning to amend the Kerala Groundwater Act 2002 to put curbs on indiscriminate use of groundwater. According to highly placed sources, the expert committee constituted to study and report on the changes necessary in the Kerala Groundwater Act is expected to submit its …
By Ginny Hill Yemen is projected to be the first Arab country that will use up all of its groundwater, but no-one knows exactly when the water table will dry out for human use. In a race to shape public opinion, the government has developed a national mascot to encourage …
Visakhapatnam, Sept. 7: An expert study has revealed that groundwater in the coastal areas of the state is slowly turning salty. Unless urgent remedial action is taken, the farmers of the area would face crop failure and attendant financial crisis. The hydro geochemistry study was conducted by a group from …
By Rashme Sehgal New Delhi,Aug. 17: An RTI filed by the Yamuna Jiye Abhiyan (YJA) with the Central Ground Water Authority (CGWA) has highlighted that quasi-government organisations are illegally extracting huge quantities of water from the Yamuna flood plain. The organisations include DMRC, which is building a massive information technology …
Central Ground Water Authority has been constituted under Section 3 (3) of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 to regulate and control development and management of ground water resources in the country. Central Ground Water Board carries out regional hydrogeological studies which provide information on ground water occurrence in different terrains …
Considering the complexity of the problem and in order to compare the estimates, we have adopted a similar methodology for the estimation of water utilization as that of the NCA
The research account by Garg and Hassan on water scarcity in India is based on the tables and figures of the Central Water Commission (CWC), Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) and National Commission on Agriculture (NCA) which were published during 1976
Kurukshetra: Taking a serious note of declining ground water level in the State, Agriculture Minister Harmohinder Singh Chattha on Saturday said if the farmers did not stop cultivating
Low on water Little groundwater recharging a cause groundwater level in Dhaka has dropped to 61.18m below the surface putting the sprawling metropolis at risk. A recent study by the Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation (badc) has revealed that Dhaka's groundwater table has gone down by 35m in the past 11 …
Professional help sought for data collection; findings to be part of PMC's Environment Status Report While it is no secret that the unprecedented and unplanned growth of the city has put severe pressure on its various resources, for the first time the Pune Municipal Corporation is coming forward to actually …
After the Special Economic Zones, villagers of Loutolim are bracing for yet another battle, this time against the indiscriminate sinking of bore well in the Verna Industrial Estate. Loutolim gram Sabha members, Sarpanch, and panch members recently called on the IDC Managing Director, A V Palekar and vociferously objected to …
The study area around Choral river basin in the Narmada Valley region, forms a part of Indore and Khargone districts of Madhya Pradesh. The geological, geomorphologic, lineament, hydrogeomorphic and groundwater potential zone maps of the study area have been prepared using IRS IC LISS III FCC imagery on 1:50,000 scale.
groundwater in Ankleshwar Industrial Estate in Bharuch district in Gujarat is highly contaminated. The contamination is a result of more than 3,000 industrial units in the estate: around 270 million litres of liquid waste and 50,000 tonnes of solid waste is generated annually. This often becomes a problem for people …
The groundwater reserves are depleting at an alarming rate in Punjab besides a serious decline in the quality of water at many places due to overuse of the available resources, says a study. Out of a total of 137 blocks covered under the study, only 25 have been found safe …
Chemometric techniques such as factor analysis (FA),cluster analysis (CA) and discriminant analysis (DA) were applied to the groundwater quality data in a tannery-polluted area of Chennai city, India.
The officials issued orders banning digging of agriculture borewells in 350 villages in the district in which the water table plummeted. As the officials banned digging of agriculture borewells, farmers are unable to cultivate crops. Groundwater level is coming down in Madakasira, Hindupur and Penugonda areas in the district. The …
Water scarcity is increasing day by day in Chittaurgarh district. Groundwater level is falling at a high rate. 12 percent of the hand-pumps have been completely dried out.
