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 …
Mumbai Metropolitan Region is planning and building over 12 dams in the ecologically fragile, biodiversity rich Western Ghats region. This is a predominantly tribal belt. By very conservative estimates, these dams will submerge more than 22,000 hectares land, including over 7000 of forests and 750 hectares of Tansa Sanctuary. They …
The Indian water supply sector has witnessed several PPP projects since the early 1990s. An initiative to address PPP Projects in water supply has been on-going in the Ministry over several months. This is a note on strengthening PPPs in urban water supply by Ministry of Urban Development.
This Compendium of Environment Statistics 2013 published by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation is the fourteenth edition of its series and covers five core parameters - biodiversity, atmosphere, land/soil, water and human settlements. RELATED CONTENT Report: 2014 Environmental Performance Index Statistics: Compendium of environment statistics India 2012 Statistics: …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Sarbeswar Mishra & Anr. Vs Union of India & Ors. dated 16/01/2014 on the use of water from the river Baiterani in Orissa by the industry and also regarding construction of industry in forest area without obtaining forest clearance. Original …
Draft report: Multiple Dams in tribal belt of Western Ghats for the Mumbai Metropolitan Region: Unjustified projects, when better options exist. About 12 dams are planned or are under construction to satisfy the increasing thirst of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR). All of these dams fall in eco-sensitive region of …
The Yamuna, which flows through the city of Delhi and provides drinking water to millions of its inhabitants, has been given the short shrift by four main contending political parties — the Congress, the BJP, Aam Aadmi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party. With electioneering coming to an end on …
This study tries to identify the initial issues of the water energy nexus by determining the demand for water by the energy sector to meet the needs of the economy. It also estimates for certain countries the total water available in the long term for the energy sector. It has …
Multiple dams are planned and are under construction on the west flowing rivers near Mumbai for the growing drinking and industrial water needs of Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) and the entire Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR). In the media and in official MMR discussions, these projects are portrayed as …
As Delhi heads for polls, some key issues are agitating the common voter although these may not be felt as much by the city’s well-heeled sections. One such issue is water. According to Census 2011, about a quarter of the city’s 1.67 crore population does not get treated piped water. …
In Haryana sub-region of the National Capital Region, Rewari district has recorded the deepest groundwater table followed by Gurgaon, Panipat and Faridabad from 2007-2011, according to the Draft Revised Regional Plan-2021. With an average of 16.3 m, Rewari has the deepest groundwater table, followed by Gurgaon (15.2 m), Panipat (13.5 …
The state government gave its approval for BMC to start work on the Gargai water project. However, it has asked BMC to pay the State Water Resources Department Rs 19 lakh before it does so. “We issued an order last week giving them the go-ahead for the project with certain …
Fears in Andhra Pradesh over the sharing of Krishna and Godavari waters, government jobs, personal safety, state assets and liabilities, and Article 371 (D) are for the most part not based on an awareness of the steps that can be taken to allay them. The ‘real’ conflict is over the …
Hydrological assessment for sustaining rice production in a changing climate: A case study of Krishna river basin, India - A presentation by Dr. Balaji Narasimhan at the 4th National Research Conference on Climate Change, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, October 26-27, 2013.
Rapid urbanisation has led to a huge increase in Gurgaon’s water demand, and as a result, the city’s groundwater levels have dropped at an alarming rate of 1.12 m per year. Keeping the city’s growing water- and sewage-related problems, government authorities have suggested establishment of an agency similar to the …
The early rains of the 2013 monsoon ended the drought in Maharashtra. But the long-term problem remains. A combination of measures is required to tackle the issue.
India, where water availability per person has shrunk by 70 percent in six decades, will set up a monitoring agency for government, industry and private users to help meet its target of cutting leaks and waste by a fifth. Improved water use will help India save 500 billion rupees ($8 …
An expert committee of the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB), formed in 2010 to find long - and short - term solutions to the growing water demand in the City, has put forward the very suggestion mooted by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah: to draw water from Linganamakki Dam. The …
This paper reflects on the progress made in climate change adaptation in the city of Durban since the launch of the Municipal Climate Protection Programme in 2004. This includes the initial difficulties in getting the attention of key sectors within municipal government, and how this was addressed and also served …
There is a growing, although still far from comprehensive, literature within China on the impacts of climate change in urban areas; also an evolving policy framework at national level to address these concerns and an increased interest in climate change adaptation from many local governments. This paper summarizes the urban …
This modelling study demonstrates at what level of global mean temperature rise .1Tg/ regions will be exposed to significant decreases of freshwater availability and changes to terrestrial ecosystems. Projections are based on a new, consistent set of 152 climate scenarios (eight 1Tg trajectories reaching 1.5–5C above pre-industrial levels by 2100, …
