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 …
Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) announced the launch of India Water Body, an initiative aimed to address the challenge of water scarcity in India. Nitin Paranjpe, CEO & Managing Director, Hindustan Unilever, said,
Demand to ensure minimum flow in the Yamuna to help its revival Recent protests by religious and social groups against the unabated pollution in the Yamuna may well have given an impetus to the long-standing need for harvesting monsoon flows through dams and barrages. One of the major demands of …
New Delhi Anticipating a shortfall of water for power generation in coming years, NTPC plans to use advanced technology to reduce the water requirement of its future coal-based power generating stations by 30%, a company source said. NTPC is India
UDHAMPUR, Minister for Public Health Engineering, Irrigation & Flood Control, Taj Mohi-ud-Din convened a meeting of officers of PHE, Irrigation and Flood Control of district Udhampur to review the status of various water supply schemes and other PHE installation besides taking stock of problems being faced by the department in …
This latest CGWB report on groundwater scenario in 28 major Indian cities describes the status of water supply and demand, groundwater scenario, feasibility of rain water harvesting, groundwater development strategy, etc. with the help of maps. See Also Report: Groundwater scenario, 2009-10. Report: Investment requirements for urban infrastructure services. Report: …
The impacts of climate change on the global hydrological cycle are expected to vary the patterns of demand and supply of water for agriculture – the dominant user of freshwater. This report summarizes current knowledge of the anticipated impacts of climate change on water availability for agriculture and examines the …
CHENNAI: Come summer, water tops the priority list of most households. With the demand on the rise, government and private agencies are gearing up to meet the requirements of customers. The Chennai Metrowater is supplying 774 million litres of water a day (mld) to residents of city and suburbs. Of …
New project will focus on reforms in distribution mechanism In about two months from now two populated pockets of the city can look forward to a more streamlined distribution of water in their areas. The Delhi Jal Board that supplies water to these areas and the rest of the city …
The main purposes of this paper were to assess effects of smallholder farmers access to livelihood capital (e.g. land, livestock and water) on livestock water productivity (LWP) and to evaluate impacts of selected interventions in reducing livestock water demand (per unit of livestock product) and therefore increasing LWP.
As water gets scarce, the lendings in the sector by international financial institutions like the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) are being looked into more critically. Most critics believe that with small investments, the banks have been able to dictate water policies in developing countries. These institutions …
Nearly 3 billion additional urban dwellers are forecasted by 2050, an unprecedented wave of urban growth. While cities struggle to provide water to these new residents, they will also face equally unprecedented hydrologic changes due to global climate change. Here we use a detailed hydrologic model, demographic projections, and climate …
Unless more sustainable water resource management practices are adopted by companies and individuals, almost half of the global economy - and more than half of the world's population - will be exposed to severe water scarcity by 2050. These are the results of an analysis conducted by Veolia Water and …
The Compendium of Environment Statistics 2010 prepared under the broad Framework for Development of Environment Statistics provided by the United Nations Statistics Division and adopted by the Steering Committee on Environment Statistics set up by CSO during 1996. The five parameters of the framework, namely, biodiversity, atmosphere, land/soil, water, and …
This paper presents the results of the Columbia Water Center’s study of the severe groundwater crisis in the Mehsana region of Northern Gujarat, India. The study concludes that the current pattern of groundwater exploitation is both costly for the state and unsustainable for farmers, and could lead to the complete …
Dhaka WASA will need Tk 108.5 billion (US$ 1.55 billion) in next ten years to implement projects for meeting the demand for water by the growing population of the capital city. Some US$ 1550 million investment is required for three water treatment plants of Saidabad, Pagla and Khilkhet during the …
Acute water scarcity has been declared in the district and as many as 383 borewells will be sunk to tackle the crisis, district in-charge minister A Narayanaswamy has said.
KARACHI: The country is going to face the worst water shortage in the next couple of years due to insufficient water management practices and storage capacity, agriculture and water experts said Saturday. A report by the Washington DC based Woodrow Wilson Center described Pakistan
