Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
Iron, Fluoride, Salinity, Arsenic Beyond Tolerance Levels In Many Districts: Govt New Delhi: Groundwater in more than a third of Indian districts is not fit for drinking. The government, in reply to a parliamentary question, admitted that iron levels in ground water are higher than those prescribed in 254 districts …
Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) organised two-day workshop on Water Management and Hydrochemistry in the auditorium of Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology. The participating experts strongly recommended for proper rehabilitation of the areas of land degenerated by mining in the State. The experts also called for protecting anthropogenic population.
Water is finite resource and can not be replaced/duplicated and produced on commercial scale. Only 2.7% of the water on earth is fresh. Depletion of water resources degrades natural environment and no living being can survive without them. It plays unique role in traditional and modern economy and is mandatory …
The Central Water Commission has given its nod to the longstanding proposed Rs 146 crore Finna Singh Medium Irrigation Project for the Nurpur area. Talking to mediapersons here last night, local MLA Rakesh Pathania said the Central Ground Water Commission and the state government had to bear 90 and 10 …
Water is becoming a scarce natural resource and there is an urgent need to conserve it, says minister for water resources, Pawan Kumar Bansal. In conversation with Yeshi Seli, he points out that the objective of his ministry is to act as a catalyst in sensitising people on the need …
CHENNAI: The Central Government will soon introduce a bill to make rain water harvesting compulsory throughout the country. The bill is being fine-tuned by the Ministry of Water Resources for introduction in Parliament, said N. Vardraj, Regional Director, Central Ground Water Board, here on Friday. Participating in a workshop on
LUCKNOW: Call it an irony of sorts. At a time when there is brouhaha over the depleting ground water table, the central ground water board (CGWB) has revealed a huge ground water reservoir hidden deep within the earth's crust. Virtually untapped, the extent of this reservoir in UP alone is …
A Nasa mission revealed Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan lost 109 cubic km of water in six years. With pumps being sunk in ever deeper, a bad monsoon has only shown how close to the edge we live Rajeev Deshpande & Nitin Sethi Nasa's twin GRACE satellites orbitting the earth in …
LUCKNOW: The state capital is losing six lakh litres of groundwater reserves daily because of indiscriminate extraction. This poses threat of massive land subsidence in next 15 years. Apart from Narhi, Charbagh and Rajajipuram, on the top of the list of areas under danger zone is Gomtinagar, one of city's …
Harvesting Could Have Prevented Waterlogging: Experts New Delhi: Looking at those photographs of the flooded Dwarka underpass, if you were marvelling at the amount of water that had turned it into a swimming pool, here
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.
PRAMOD KUMAR Arsenic contamination in groundwater has been reported from some parts of 28 districts of Uttar Pradesh, 15 districts of Bihar and certain districts of West Bengal in the country. The Union minister of state for water resources Vincent H. Pala in a reply to a question in Parliament …
LUCKNOW: Pending since 2005, enactment of the UP Ground Water Conservation, Protection and Development (Management, Control and Regulation) bill will take some more time. The ground water department has decided to put the draft of the proposed law on its website for public objections and suggestions before starting the legislation …
Pramod Kumar June 30: The PMO has finally decided to intervene in the issue of acute water crisis in the national capital and has called a meeting of the senior officials of the Central Ground Water Board, Central Water Commission and the Delhi Jal Board over the issue. Besides, consensus …
While water bodies around Tripura's capital Agartala are fast drying, the state government plans to bring water from a river 70 km away-------- Laxmi Das is hurrying with earthen pots through the nar
K. Balchand NEW DELHI: Against the backdrop of a looming below-normal rainfall this monsoon, the Union Ministry of Water Resources on Wednesday issued new directives to provide water to the needy areas and called for reports from the States on the progress of creating of water sources under various schemes. …
Eight Years After HC Order, Very Few Buildings Have Installed Structures New Delhi: In 2001, the Delhi High Court asked the government to make rainwater harvesting compulsory in the city. Eight years on, the situation remains alarming. The groundwater level is dropping by the day and the government refuses to …
During the Supreme Court (SC) hearing on 18th of March, the court appointed Central Empowered Committee brought in notice of the apex court the condition of Badkhal lake. When counsel A D N Rao showed the satellite images of the lake to the justice Bench, then they were worried and …
