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 …
mans nilsson How much do environmental issues really cost us every year? Is it possible that the environmental damage arising from the production and consumption of goods and services in our society is so costly that in some cases it offsets the welfare gains from the very same production and …
AN UNUSUAL trade between three desperate countries in the central Asian region has meant that water will be bartered for gas and coal. The republics of Kyrgyzstan) Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan entered into an agreement in the first week of April to improve cross border deliveries of water and energy. The …
Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink! This could very soon turn into a global reality according to the UN. Some 80 countries and 40 per cent of the world's population are already in the throes of a 'water stress'. Said Wally N'Dow, secretary general of the forthcoming …
In a bid to break the deadlock over the Cauvery waters dispute, the Supreme Court requested Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao, on December 28, 1995, to resolve the dispute immediately. The Tamil Nadu government had pleaded that if Karnataka did not release the required amount of water immediately, it …
IT is intriguing to those familiar with the history of water resources in Indore that the city is now being forced to bring in from outside. The wells water and the tanks had been more than adequate once to meet Indore's water needs, Whenever the demand went up, the rulers …
AT THE heart of it is corruption. It is not as if they do not know that the lakes are important". This apt comment from actor Girish Karnad, who was speaking LORE at a rally to protest against the destruction of one of Bangalore's wetlands - Koraniangala lake encapsulated the …
A collapsed sewerage system and an acute water crisis are causing misery to the residents of Kharkov, Ukraine's 2nd largest city. Up to 200,000 cubic metres of untreated sewage has been pouring daily into the 3 rivers running through the city. Add to this the long lines for water, and …
Hit by an acute water shortage, residents of Banepa in Kathmandu, Nepal look forward to gifts which include pots of water! Residents of the neighbouring village of Dhulikel -- in an effort to help out their thirsty countrymen in Banepa -- send pots of water to them mainly by the …
The human body is 80-odd per cent water, a few per cent bone and gristle -- and the rest, neurosis. beings are highly dependent on water for their bodily, agricultural, domestic and industrial needs. But the ubiquitousness of water has detracted from its worth -- it is a human failing …
Many natural resources are consistently overused and undervalued by modern Indian industry; none more so than water. Factories and manufacturing centres throughout the country have a carte blanche approach to this invaluable commodity -- they consume it, waste it, pollute it...without worrying about the cost. This callous disconcern flourishes only …
Overriding the fears of water and air pollution raised by environmentalists, the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) has announced plans to build 3 coal-fired plants in Trincomalee, Puttalam and Matara. Their cost is estimated to be US $400 million and their combined output is 900 mw. The decision was prompted by …
KANYAKUMARI, at the southernmost tip of the Indian land mass, is short on water - this despite the fact that almost one-fourth of the district has forest cover and receives between 100 to 250 centimetres of rain, distributed evenly over 10 months of the year. So why on earth is …
Water consumption the world over is growing - it is likely to grow by five times between 1940 and 2000. This, coupled with the pollution of existing water resources is causing water scarcity in more and more parts of the planet. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, the …
ALTHOUGH 75 per cent of Earth's surface is covered by water, a very small part of it is available for immediate use. Freshwater for human consumption is limited -- the total freshwater present in the rivers, lakes, glaciers and ice caps, and that present as groundwater in aquifers, is less …
The growing problems in providing adequate drinking water to urban populations is a consequence of the lack of long-term planning and inefficient management of urban water usage.
EVERYTHING in Thailand is daringly up front -- except for a serious water crisis. A transit passenger in the luxurious Bangkok airport who heads for the toilet for a quick shave risks inviting more than a few reproachful glances if he keeps the immaculately-polished taps carelessly turned on. The Thai …
While the cultivation of paddy in Punjab (and Haryana) does need some curbing, the extreme forebodings of either total groundwater exhaustion in Punjab or of the state turning into a desert of paddy growing is not curbed forthwith are unwarranted.
SUPPLYING running water to about 19 lakh households in Delhi is fast becoming an impossible task. Various administrative and political bodies concerned with water supply management are in desperate search of means to meet the growing demand. The Union ministry of urban development has proposed that an autonomous body be …
ISRAEL'S citrus industry, part of its drive to "make the desert bloom", is a spectacular success story with export earnings in the US $150-250 million range, depending on the quality and quantity of the crop. But, increasingly, critics complain the citrus industry is exporting in effect the country's most precious …
In the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, situated in one of the driest and most water-stressed region of the world, sustainable water provision to the various development activities has grown to be one of the most challenging tasks faced. This is due to limited available natural water resources on one …
