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 …
Despite receiving excess rainfall during the north-east monsoon season, Tamil Nadu is bracing for an acute water crises this summer with several reservoirs, including Mettur, drying up fast. Sources from the Public Works Department (PWD) said water at Mettur, the lifeline of delta farmers, plunged to 74 feet on Sunday …
China’s power sector is its largest source of greenhouse gas emissions and also its biggest industrial water user. This issue brief includes a Water–Climate Impacts Bubble Chart to help decision-makers better understand the trade-offs between water use, climate impacts, and capital investment in the power sector.
This research report assesses water scarcity and its impacts on smallholder subsistence livelihoods in the context of climate change in Nepal, a mountainous country located entirely within the Ganges River Basin. It identifies and analyses existing coping responses and assesses options for introducing an adaptive response strategy to improve resilience …
There is a lack of field data on the water withdrawal and consumption intensity of thermoelectric power plants in China. With China's ambitious electricity capacity expansion and ever-growing water deficit, the overlooked water dimension of thermoelectric power generation could soon have significant water sustainability implications, and field data on water …
This Compendium of Environment Statistics 2014 published by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation is the fifteenth edition of its series and covers five core parameters - biodiversity, atmosphere, land/soil, water and human settlements.
A bitter exchange of words has erupted between Telangana and Andhra Pradesh over the sharing of water of Nagarjuna Sagar dam. While the Andhra Pradesh government is accusing Telangana of not releasing its “rightful share of water”, Telangana claims that Andhra Pradesh has already used its share — calculated and …
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat laid the foundation stone of Dhikwal Gaon Khirsu Gram Samuha drinking water pumping scheme at block headquarter Khirsu in district Pauri on Thursday. The villagers from nearly 110 villages kept demanding it over the past 30years. The project got the State Government’s sanction thanks to …
The food and drink industry must curtail the amount of water used in production to avoid two thirds of the world's population living in 'water-scarce' areas by 2050. That's according to the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) which has produced a new policy report calling for co-ordinated action to reduce …
It is very tough trade-off between economic growth and environmental sustainability in a faster growing developing country like India. The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis proposes that environmental degradation initially increases with the income rise, and then begins to decrease once a certain threshold of income growth is achieved. The …
Water: Depleting water sources and absence of concrete solution in most gewogs of Trashigang has left farmers worried even as the dzongkhag administration is surveying the situation. Although the gewogs are trying out various preventive measures, gups said the situation only worsened over the years. About 12 gewogs have reported …
COULD São Paulo run out of water? The idea of South America’s biggest metropolis, home to 20m people, lacking something so basic seems fanciful. Yet shortages this year have forced schools to suspend classes and restaurants to shut in smaller towns across São Paulo state, where a fifth of Brazilians …
KARACHI: In the wake of below average rainfall in Thar in recent years, the Sindh government has planned a series of water, food and livestock projects under a strategy to end water shortfall in the drought-hit desert district, it emerged on Wednesday. Officials in the Sindh government said the death …
The Future Proofing Indian Cities project represents the first time that evidence on the holistic set of risks and possible solutions to target specific vulnerabilities to risks has been explored for Bangalore and Madurai using the Future Proofing Cities methodology. The project will ultimately provide improved guidance on how these …
The separate and combined effects of different drivers of change to water fluxes and resources on land (CWOL) remain difficult to distinguish and largely unknown, particularly at a global scale. Our study analyzes CWOL during the period 1901–2008, based on available hydroclimatic data for up to 859 hydrological basins. We …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Vijender Singh Vs. MoEF & Ors. dated 01/12/2014 regarding extraction of underground water, Haryana. The Tribunal also directed the Administrator of HUDA to file an Affidavit clearly stating as to whether it is supplying water to …
The Urban Water Blueprint analyzes the state of water in more than 2,000 watersheds and 530 cities worldwide to provide science-based recommendations for natural infrastructure enhancements that can be integrated alongside traditional engineered solutions to improve water quality. This report addresses a critical issue facing mayors in cities around the …
Poverty continues to be a major concern in Asia despite the region’s high economic growth and rapid rural transformation. Most of the poor live in areas where natural resource conditions are suboptimal and water-related constraints are the root cause of low production and increasing vulnerability to natural disasters and climate …
Climate Change 2014: Impacts,Adaptation, and Vulnerability is the second volume of the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — Climate Change 2013/2014 — and was prepared by its Working Group II. The volume focuses on why climate change matters and is organized into two …
The mayor of Los Angeles aims to reduce local water use by 20 percent over the next three years to address a record drought through a mix of voluntary measures for residents and mandatory restrictions for city departments, the city said on Tuesday. Mayor Eric Garcetti, in an executive order, …
Californians living in the state’s urban areas cut their water use by 11.5 percent in August as conservation efforts expanded to meet a record drought. Water savings climbed from 4 percent in June and 7 percent in July, compared with a year ago, according to data released today by the …
