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 …
NEW DELHI: Moving to tighten norms for emissions of major pollutants by coal-based power plants in the country, the environment ministry has proposed a fresh standard for old and new units seeking them to substantially cut down release of health-damaging particulate matter (PM). Since the impact of pollution from coal-based …
The Delhi Jal Board is setting up five decentralised Waste Water Treatment Plants (WWTP) to treat effluent for non-potable purposes and bridge the demand and supply gap. According to a DJB official, a decentralised WWTP has been set up at Keshopur with a treatment capacity of 66KL/day. “Trial run of …
The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change has drafted new emission and water consumption standards for thermal power plants. In a draft notification soliciting comments from the public on the matter, it laid out the tighter norms that are expected to cut down emissions of particulate matter and other …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Krishankant Singh Hoon & Anr. Vs. Union of India & Ors dated 12/05/2015 regarding slaughter houses running illegally in Uttar Pradesh and primarily relates to Gaziabad, Meerut and Hapur. It was decided that: The the State of UP, UPPCB, Nagar …
With the onset of summer and rising mercury, several parts of the town have started facing an acute shortage of drinking water as a number of water supply schemes, managed by the Irrigation and Public Health (IPH) Department, have gone dry or failed to meet the rising demand for water …
The global food sector faces extraordinary risks from the twin challenges of water scarcity and water pollution. Growing competition for water, combined with weak regulations, failing infrastructure, pollution and climate change impacts threaten the sector’s water security and contribute to a water availability emergency that was recently ranked the world’s …
NASHIK: The Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) is planning use private tankers to supply water to various places and routes in case of an emergency during Kumbh Mela. Close to 1.25 crore people, including 30 lakh sadhus, are expected to visit the city during the event beginning from July 14. The …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Shailesh Singh Vs. Metropolitan Hotel & SPA dated 27/04/2015 regarding consent to operate given to the Metropolitan Hotel, New Delhi.
The National Green Tribunal has directed the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) to inspect Coca Cola's bottling plant in Varanasi and submit record of water consumption and effluent discharge of the unit. A bench headed by Justice U D Salvi also directed …
The city's grain bowl is shrinking. In the pas one-and-a-half years about 700 acres of farmland in Najafgarh, southwest Delhi has been sold off for other uses officials at the sub-registrar's office say. One reason is the boom in property prices. Like their counterparts in Noida and Gurgaon a decade …
(Reuters) - A state appeals court ruled on Monday that a southern California city's tiered water rates, developed in an effort to combat overuse during the state's ongoing drought, violated the state's Constitution. The three-judge panel for the state's 4th District Court of Appeal sided with taxpayers of the Los …
The UAE has pledged to a major global conference its commitment to reduce its water use by a fifth within 15 years. Dr Sultan Al Jaber, Special Envoy for Climate Change and Energy, made the commitment at the opening of the World Water Forum in Daegu and Gyeongbuk, South Korea. …
Researchers find that L.A. County's potable water use is still almost twice as high as average European city UCLA institute gives Los Angeles County a 'C' for its management of water supply and water quality Los Angeles residents and city leaders express pride in the significant cuts in water use …
This report focuses on the urban water management challenges facing cities across OECD countries, and explores both national and local policy responses with respect to water-risk exposure, the state of urban infrastructures and dynamics, and institutional and governance architectures. The analyses focus on four mutually dependent dimensions – finance, innovation, …
The optimal management of water resources requires that the collected hydrogeological, meteorological, and spatial data be simulated and analyzed with appropriate models. In this study, a catchment-scale distributed hydrological modeling approach is applied to simulate water stress for the years 2000 and 2050 in a data scarce Pra Basin, Ghana. …
Increasing ubanisation and industrialisation are widening the rift between demand for and supply of water The quality and quantity of available fresh water has been greatly affected by unsustainable development and governance failures, says the UN World Development Report launched in New Delhi last week. Titled “Water for a Sustainable …
Water is essential to life on Earth. But what happens when demand outpaces the supply of water? Scientists have found that population growth could very well cause the global demand for water to outpace supply by the mid-century if current levels of consumption continue. In order to learn a bit …
Meerut: On the occasion of World Water Day, MP from Meerut Rajendra Agarwal, DIG of Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) K Satyanarayan and environmentalist Arun Tivari showed their concern over the persistent water crises in the country. More than 50 intellectuals from all sections of society were present in the seminar …
The word mismanagement sums up Delhi’s annual water crisis. The national capital was declared as the world’s second most populous city in the year 2014 by United Nations (UN). Delhi is home to some 25 million people and the cleavage between demand and supply for water keeps growing at a …
Earth is facing a 40% shortfall in water supply by 2030, unless we dramatically improve the management of this precious resource warns this latest edition of the UN World Water Development Report. The 2015 edition of the United Nations World Water Development Report (WWDR 2015), titled Water for a Sustainable …
