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 …
Water supplied once a week to colony with 2,000 families With most parts of the town reeling under acute shortage of drinking water, more and more residents are taking to the streets demanding that the civic administration sort out the problem on a war footing. On Tuesday, more than 100 …
This has reference to the excellent article entitled “Cauvery Dispute: A Lament and a Proposal” (EPW, 30 March 2013) by Ramaswamy R Iyer on the history, complex dynamics and current status of the Cauvery River dispute. I run a conservation foundation in Bangalore and, as much of our work is …
Asks for Singh's intervention to resolve disputes with neighbouring states. With summer fast approaching and with it possible water shortages, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Wednesday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and sought his intervention in solving Delhi's water disputes with neighbouring states. Sources in the government stated that the …
The numbers are increasing and so is the demand for water. For the city’s water utility, the Delhi Jal Board, this is barely good news. With little possibility of finding newer sources of water for the city’s growing demand, the Jal Board is being pressed to recycle and reuse. Three …
The rapid growth of urban India has added new saliency to the resource conflict between the burgeoning cities and village India that continues to be the home for vast majority of Indians. Cities, like living organisms, depend on external metabolic flows to keep them alive. Among all the metabolic flows …
The Delhi Jal Board (DJB) today released its annual budget of Rs 3951.78 crore for the financial year 2013-14, announcing an increase in the net revenue surplus from Rs 40.56 crore in 2007-08 to Rs 233.57 crore during 2013-14. "The DJB's dependence on the government for operational costs has been …
New Delhi: With the assembly elections scheduled for later this year, Delhi Jal Board has earmarked 39% of its Rs 1,665 crore budget for 2013-14 for urban water supply. The focus of their work this year, as has been for the past few years, is improving sewage and sanitation for …
The need for achieving food security is felt significantly in the recent years due to enormous pressure from the ever increasing population in India. Owing to the change in preferences in crop production techniques over a period of time, several new challenges draw attention to food security. This article discusses …
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu is facing a water deficit of 11%, says a report. This is bad news, coming as it does at the beginning of a torrid summer. While the current total water demand in the state, for domestic, irrigation, livestock and industrial needs, is 1,867.85 tmcft (thousand million cubic …
KOCHI: Following acute water shortage and huge expenditure incurred on water supplied by the Kerala Water Authority (KWA), the Cochin University of Science and Technology (Cusat) has decided to build a pond and harvest rainwater in the campus. While presenting the budget recently, university authorities drew the attention of syndicate …
New Delhi: Against a demand of 1,025 million gallons per day of water, Delhi is getting only 818mgd of treated water. By 2021, the demand is expected to touch 1,216mgd. Over Rs 600 crore has been spent for augmenting water supply but none of the projects has come through. The …
ITANAGAR: Inordinate delay in completion of drinking water mega project at Aohali in Mebo constituency under East Siang district has evoked massive public reaction as the Pasighat division of Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) has miserably failed to supply drinking water to the concerned villages under the constituency. The project …
PUNE: About 17.46 lakh rural population of Pune division is facing severe water scarcity and most of them are dependent on tankers for drinking water supply, said a senior officer from the divisional commissionerate. The revised report on water scarcity in villages and hamlets stated that 865 villages and 3,823 …
New Delhi: Is water privatization really needed in Delhi? Delhi Jal Board vehemently opposes the use of the word privatization, saying that since it will retain control of water treatment plants and other infrastructure, it is only outsourcing work that is necessary to bring efficiency into the system. Those opposed …
With the state in the grip of a drought, Deputy CM Ajit Pawar, who holds the finance portfolio, set aside almost 25 per cent of the budget for tackling the state's water crisis. Though he avoided announcing any new schemes despite it being a pre-election year, the total expenditure for …
The International Day of Action for Rivers on March 14 passed by without a murmur in Bangalore. A city that drew on two reservoirs of the Arkavathy for its water supply, now has no words left for the river that satiated a third of its water needs. Yet, plans to …
In the election year, the two main political parties in the city, ruling Congress and Opposition BJP, are looking to target two of the main problems that residents face — water shortage and its pollution. Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, while laying the foundation stone for sewer rehabilitation at a Delhi …
Optimising Local Water Resources and Availability in Urban and Peri-urban Chennai by S.Janakarajan at Anil Agarwal Dialogue 2013: Excreta Does Matter, March 4-5, 2013, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
This report aims to provide a macro level overview of water-related risks to and from Indian businesses, their response mechanisms and the opportunity for businesses to embark on a water stewardship journey. The report addresses a number of questions and concerns related to industries water risk perception, as well as …
The Arkavathy sub-basin, which is part of the Cauvery basin, is a highly stressed, rapidly urbanising watershed on the outskirts of the city of Bengaluru. The purpose of this situation analysis document is to summarise the current state of knowledge on water management in the Arkavathy sub-basin and identify critical …
