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 …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Krishan Kant Singh Vs. M/s United Spirits Limited Rosa Shahjahnpur dated 02/03/2016 regarding pollution caused by United Spirits Limited, Rosa Shahjahnpur, Uttar Pradesh. The joint inspection team report submitted before the Tribunal states that the Unit appears to have taken …
Global trends point to a relative decoupling of water – that is, the rate of water resource use is increasing at a rate slower than that of economic growth. The Options for Decoupling Economic Growth from Water Use and Water Pollution report provides an independent assessment of technological and policy-relevant …
This is a collection of stories represents an introduction to the people and places benefiting from the work of ICIMOD’s Koshi Basin Programme. The programme focuses its work in the Koshi River basin, an area that extends from the hills of the Tibetan Plateau, through the mountains and hills of …
This Compendium of Environment Statistics 2015 published by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation is the sixteenth edition of its series and covers five core parameters - biodiversity, atmosphere, land/soil, water and human settlements.
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Legal Aid, National Green Tribunal Bar Association Vs. NCT of Delhi & Ors. dated 22/02/2016 regarding water packaging industry extracting groundwater from the industrial area of Bawana and Narela, Delhi. Related Order Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding packaged …
Freshwater scarcity is increasingly perceived as a global systemic risk. Previous global water scarcity assessments, measuring water scarcity annually, have underestimated experienced water scarcity by failing to capture the seasonal fluctuations in water consumption and availability. We assess blue water scarcity globally at a high spatial resolution on a monthly …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of U.R. Beniwal Vs. State of Rajasthan & Ors dated 15/02/2016 regarding unlawful extraction of groundwater by industries in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. It is undisputed that the area in question is a ‘Dark Zone’ for the purpose of extraction of water. Counsel …
The global human population now exceeds 7 billion and is projected to reach 10 billion around 2060. While population growth has been associated with certain benefits (e.g., economies of scale, technological advancements), theoretical models, probabilistic projections, and empirical evidence also indicate that this growth could increase the likelihood of many …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Randhir Singh & Others Vs State of Haryana & Others dated 29/01/2016. The Application was for restraining the M/s Haryana Liquors Pvt. Ltd. from carrying on construction activity for the proposed Grain/Molasses Distillery Unit in its current location in the …
Food, energy, and water are three critical resources for humanity. As climate variability, population growth, and lifestyle changes amplify the stress placed on each of the resources, the interrelationships among food, energy, and water systems become more pronounced. Political conflict, social and cultural norms, and spatial and temporal distribution of …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of Asim Sarode & Others Vs District Collector Nanded & Others dated 11/01/2016 regarding environmental concern faced by residents of more than 12 districts in the State of Maharashtra due to contaminated ground water in terms of …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Shailesh Singh V/s. Hotel Holiday Regency, Moradabad & Ors. dated 11/01/2016 regarding groundwater extraction by hotels in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh. Five hotels are arrayed as the respondents in the present application seeking restoration of environment and measures to protect the …
Water scarcity challenges industries around the world. Global population growth and economic development suggest a future of increased demand, competition, and cost for limited freshwater supplies. Scarcer water, in turn, creates new challenges for energy supply because coal, oil, gas, and electricity production can require massive amounts of freshwater. Yet …
The Environmental Justice Atlas or EJAtlas.org is a freely accessible on-line interactive information portal that helps academic scholars and public policymakers across the world in identifying exemplary cases of peoples’ resistance against climate change and environment degradation. EJAtlas.org is conceived by the EJOLT project – an acronym for the ‘Environmental …
Efficient use of water resources is gaining priority in global development policy debates due to the increasing demand for water from agriculture, industry, energy production and ecosystem services. This study systematically reviews the recent hydro-economic modeling (HEM) literature to characterize the relevance of HEM tools for analyzing problems of water …
The study is based on a century's worth of observational data drawn from 100 river basins across the world. It reveals a significant increase in the water being "lost" to the atmosphere as a direct result of human activity. This occurs through evaporation from land and water surfaces, and from …
Interbasin water transfers are globally important water management strategies, yet little is known about their role in the hydrologic cycle at regional and continental scales. Specifically, there is a dearth of centralized information on transfer locations and characteristics, and few analyses place transfers into a relevant hydrological context. We assessed …
From 2017, thermal power plants across India will have to cut particulate matter emissions by as much as 40 per cent and reduce their water consumption by nearly a third according to this notification by the Union Ministry Of Environment, Forests and Climate Change. The Ministry of Environment, Forest & …
A new report from the Government of Uganda with support from CDKN, Baastel, Metroeconomica, Makerere University and CIDT, finds that adaptation to climate change today is well worth the investment. The costs of inaction on climate change by 2025 are 20 times the costs of adaptation. Uganda is already experiencing …
