Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
This analysis by Greenpeace shows that fresh water used in thermal power plants in seven drought affected states could meet requirements of 50 million people. In fact, all power plants in the country consume water that could meet needs of 251 million people. Power plants in India consume water needed …
Beijing is one of the most water-stressed cities in the world. Due to over-exploitation of groundwater, the Beijing region has been suffering from land subsidence since 1935. In this study, the Small Baseline InSAR technique has been employed to process Envisat ASAR images acquired between 2003 and 2010 and TerraSAR-X …
The Bombay high court on Wednesday issued notices to the Ulhasnagar civic body to explain as to why contempt proceeding should not be issued over its failure to provide water to residents of the township. The HC had last month directed the Ulhasnagar and Ambernath civic bodies to provide water …
It is estimated that more than two-thirds of the population in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) must leave their home to collect water, putting them at risk for a variety of negative health outcomes. There is little research, however, quantifying who is most affected by long water collection times. This study aims …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Hotels and Guest Houses Association Mahipalpur Vs. Delhi Pollution Control Committee & Others dated 23/05/2016 regarding hotels in Mahipalpur for grant of consent to operate. The Application is allowed to be withdrawn and stands disposed of accordingly. Previous Order
The latest figures of the availability and demand of potable water in Haryana show water shortage in nine districts of the state. Authorities concerned said there was shortage of water supply from the Yamuna. They said the supply had been increased through tankers in water-deficit districts. As per sources, the …
Supreme Court in this 53-page verdict delivered on May 11, 2016 pulled up the government over a lack of preparedness for the drought which struck at least 10 states across the country. The apex court ordered creating a national plan to tackle the crisis, a disaster fund and standard procedures …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Babu Lal Jajoo Vs. State of Rajasthan & Others dated 02/05/2016 regarding sewage water and also storm water being drained into the Gandhi Sagar Lake, Bhilwara, Rajasthan. The Court has also been informed that at present …
Urban water and wastewater management are relatively under-studied subjects in India. The Indian urban space has been understood in an undifferentiated manner, which ignores the specificities deriving from the stage of urban development, the sources of water, as also the diverse nature of aquifers characterizing urban settlements. This paper provides …
Recycling and reuse of treated wastewater are an important part of the sanitation cycle and critical in an environment such as urban India with decreasing freshwater availability and increasing costs for delivering acceptable quality water, often from far distance. This report has been developed as a possible guidance document for …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Shailesh Singh V/s. Hotel Holiday Regency, Moradabad & Ors. dated 26/04/2016 regarding groundwater extraction by hotels in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh. Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board shall submit a report based on the analysis of the STP discharge and also the …
Robust appraisals of climate impacts at different levels of global-mean temperature increase are vital to guide assessments of dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. The 2015 Paris Agreement includes a two-headed temperature goal: "holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Shailesh Singh Vs. M/S Aadi Best Consortium Pvt. Ltd. dated 19/04/2016 regarding extraction of ground water by Adi Best Consortium Pvt. Ltd., Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. Counsel appearing on behalf of Shailesh Singh admits that the water from the bore well …
A new study points to the risk that China and India will be facing severe water shortages due to a perfect storm of economic growth, climate change, and demands of fast growing populations by mid century. Within 35 years, the countries where roughly half the world's population lives may be …
There has been no significant change in the knowledge-base and institutional structure for managing water systems since colonial rule. This makes the recent efforts of the Ministry of Water Resources for restructuring the Central Water Commission and the Central Ground Water Board significant. This article argues that the effort should …
Thailand’s agriculture ministry signaled that a water crisis may ease over the next few months because supply in the nation’s dams should be sufficient until seasonal rains begin in April or May. Dams that supply Thailand’s central plains hold about 2.4 billion cubic feet of water, less than half the …
The sustainability of future water resources is of paramount importance and is affected by many factors, including population, wealth and climate. Inherent in current methods to estimate these factors in the future is the uncertainty of their prediction. In this study, we integrate a large ensemble of scenarios—internally consistent across …
Three out of four of the jobs worldwide are water-dependent. In fact, water shortages and lack of access may limit economic growth in the years to come, according to the 2016 United Nations World Water Development Report, Water and Jobs, launched on 22 March 2016, World Water Day, in Geneva. …
Coal plants are draining an already dwindling global water supply, consuming enough to meet the basic needs of one billion people and deepening a worldwide crisis. Announcing its first global plant-by-plant study, Greenpeace said coal power use will increase with newly built plants, causing "huge stress" on the world's major …
