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 …
S Lalitha,DH News Service,Oct 6,Bangalore: Vacant private plots of land where owners have dug their own borewells have emerged as major supply points for water at Mahadevapura and Kaggadasapura. Private water tankers are purchasing water from these points and distributing it to public. This has resulted in rampant exploitation of …
Goa has been warned not to go the way Delhi and Haryana has by undertaking rampant mining. Professor Subir Saha, ex-director of School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, said that the rampant mining has been the cause of drop in water table in the two Northern states. Dr Saha …
Northern Subcontinent Pumping Out 54Tn Litres Every Year Amit Bhattacharya | TNN New Delhi: The amount of groundwater pumped out by Delhiites and others across northern India is highest in the world and is contributing as much as 5% to the total rise in sea levels. A new study using …
Chandigarh BY 2025, India will be in deep water crisis, said experts at a seminar on water scarcity organised by Universal Rationale Genre of Exponents (URGE) on Thursday. URGE president S K Gulati said:
NAGAPATTINAM: To ensure water availability for samba cultivation in the tail-end areas in the delta region, monitoring committees would be formed under tahsildars. This was decided at an emergency meeting of a special committee, chaired by A. Annadurai, District Revenue Officer, at the collectorate on Monday to ascertain the status …
KOCHI: The groundwater Department is upbeat as the rain water harvesting programme introduced in the State four years ago has started yielding positive results with the groundwater level in several parts of the district showing signs of improvement. In Ernakulam district, the department had bored 62 observatory wells in the …
Disappearing ground water could be the mother of all crises A study based on satellite imagery, by the US National Aeronautical and Space Administration (Nasa), says that North India
Groundwater is a primary source of fresh water in many parts of the world. Some regions are becoming overly dependent on it, consuming groundwater faster than it is naturally replenished and causing water tables to decline unremittingly. Indirect evidence suggests that this is the case in northwest India, but there …
K.V. Kurmanath Hyderabad, Aug. 4 Worried over decreasing groundwater levels and presence of nitrates and heavy metals, the Andhra Pradesh Government has initiated a study to assess the quality and quantity of groundwater in the Hussainsagar catchment area. The study would suggest measures to plug the sources of pollution and …
This article describes the estimation of natural recharge and determination of aquifer parameters of a watershed located in coastal belt around Tuticorin town, Tamil Nadu, India, using radioactive tracer and pumping test methods. Recharge measurements were made at several spots to weathered gneiss, shale limestone, quartzite and coastal alluvium formations …
There is a marked fall in groundwater table Underground drainage project progressing slowly CUDDALORE: The Tamil Nadu Science Forum has voiced concern over the fast-depleting groundwater level in Cuddalore. At a district conference held here recently, the forum passed a resolution urging the authorities to take speedy measures to reverse …
Bindu Shajan Perappadan NEW DELHI: For a parched Delhi the latest report card on the status of its ground water released by the Central Ground Water Board spells tough times ahead, with all nine districts of the city reporting a decline in the water table.
Thiruvananthapuram: The government is planning to amend the Kerala Groundwater Regulation Act, 2002, to prevent the exploitation of groundwater by private parties, Water Resources Minister N.K. Premachandran has said. Replying to questions in the Assembly on Wednesday, Mr. Premachandran said that the existing Act did not have the provisions to …
Call to revive groundwater bodies. The packaged water industry is growing at 40% a year and Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh account for half the industry. Bangalore, June 30 Overexploitation of ground water mainly by packaged water companies and the borewell segment may push the country to the brink …
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed for hydrological data sharing between the government of Himachal Pradesh and various projects on different river basins in the state here today. Principal secretary, irrigation and public health, Narinder Chauhan signed the document on behalf of the government and the representatives from the …
Dynamic groundwater resources of India have been estimated using groundwater resource estimation methodology-1997. The methodology uses the water-level fluctuation technique and empirical norms for recharge estimation. The groundwater utilization is also estimated. The stage of groundwater development is worked out and assessment units are categorized based on the stage of …
The Delhi Jal Board has been found woefully short in providing adequate water supply in the city, with its leaking pipe networks reporting a wastage of a huge 40 per cent of water in its distribution channel. The DJB has also fallen short in meeting its own target of 855 …
