Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Dr. Amit Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 28/05/2025. The applicant has raised a grievance against setting up of a tyre pyrolysis plant by M/s Adideva Carbon LLP. According to the applicant, the tyre pyrolysis plant has …
The Maharashtra Water Resources Regulatory Authority (MWRRA) upheld the decision of the Godavari Marathwada Irrigation Development Corporation (GMIDC) to release 12.84 TMC water from upstream dams in Ahmednagar and districts for the Jayakwadi irrigation project. The body has also ordered implementation of the GGMIDC order dated October 17, asking upstream …
The boss of BHP Billiton will arrive in Brazil on Monday to see at first-hand the devastation wrought by the collapse of a dam at an iron ore mine co-owned by the company that has left at least two dead and dozens missing. Three days after the rupturing of two …
VIJAYAWADA: Asserting that tackling the water crisis in the state is top on the government's agenda, finance minister Yanamala Ramakrishnudu said an additional sum of Rs 3,000 crore would be released to complete the pending irrigation projects in Rayalaseema region. He said that the government is pooling another Rs 2,000 …
Construction of small dams and water pans will have to be subjected to a revised practice manual launched yesterday. The manual launched at the Sarova Panafric Hotel in Nairobi provides a general reference for design, construction and rehabilitation of water conservations structures. Water and Irrigation CS Eugene Wamalwa said the …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Antarsingh Patel & Anr.Vs. Union of India &Ors. dated 28/10/2015 regarding rehabilitation and resettlement (R&R) work related to Maheshwar Dam, Madhya Pradesh. NGT in its order said that "there shall be no lowering/closure of the gates causing submergence of the …
In a major relief for Uttarakhand, the Supreme Court has said the environment ministry was free to approve hydropower projects in the state, except in Alaknanda-Bhagirathi river basins. The relief — in the form of an explicit clarification by the apex court on Monday that its earlier order asking the …
China today operationalised its USD 1.5 billion Zam Hydropower Station, the largest in Tibet, built on the Brahmaputra river, which has raised concerns in India over the likelihood of disrupting water supplies. Operationalising the dam, China said it will take into consideration India's concerns and will remain in contact with …
The 260-mw Jispa Dam project at the snowbound Lahaul valley faces tribal opposition. The dam aims at storing about 0.8 million-acre feet of water to feed 11 major power projects downstream in the Chenab basin. Himachal Pradesh Power Corporation Limited (HPPCL) has sought police protection to carry out site investigation …
Opposing mega dams on the Siang river in Arunachal Pradesh, an NGO on Monday appealed to the Centre not to give environmental clearance against all mega dams in Siang belt comprising four districts of Siang, East Siang, Upper Siang and West Siang. The Siang People’s Forum (SPF) in a memorandum …
The Odisha Government has made installation of flow meters mandatory not only for industrial and commercial establishments for withdrawal of water from Government sources but also for the municipal bodies. By amending the Odisha Irrigation Rules, 1961, the Revenue and Disaster Management Department has made it obligatory on part of …
Tank rehabilitation presently in vogue, in many states of India and neighbouring Sri Lanka, needs a holistic approach involving scientific planning and execution and people`s participation to save the tank and meet basic objective of providing water for irrigation. The article brings into focus the essential inputs to make the …
A total of 20 farmers, including 91-year-old C. Nainar Kulasekaran, founder of Tamirabharani River Water Protection Federation, launched an indefinite fast at Nattathi in Srivaikuntam taluk on Tuesday, urging the government authorities to set up a joint committee to monitor the desilting work under way in Srivaikuntam dam. Mr. Kulasekaran …
Brazil’s controversial Belo Monte hydroelectric plant is facing another setback after the country’s environmental protection agency, Ibama, threatened to withhold an operating licence until the consortium which built the dam completes mitigation projects in the area to be affected. Without the operating licence, Norte Energia – a consortium of 10 …
Constitutes A Seven-Member Panel To Quickly Complete Aquifer Mapping Seeking to carry forward the Gujarat-model o irrigation reform in the country and to quickly com plete the task of aquifer map ping to quantify available groundwater resources, the Centre has constituted a sev en-member committee to res tructure the central …
Chinese government auditors have found more accounting problems with projects linked to the $59-billion Three Gorges dam, the world's biggest hydropower scheme, following a critical report last year that revealed nepotism and other corrupt practices. The state audit office has conducted 21 inspections since construction began in 1992, uncovering issues …
The Eighth meeting of the Tripartite Technical Committee on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) concluded on Friday August 21, 2015 in Addis Abeba, Hilton Hotel. The committee requested the two firms selected to conduct an impact assessment of the GERD, presenting additional explanation and directives to decide whether they …
Union Minister of State for Forest and Environment Prakash Javadekar on Thursday declared that he would leave no stone unturned in removing hurdles, small or large, which held up inter-State North Koel Irrigation project for last 40 years. Admitting that several serious issues are involved in making Mandal Dam operational, …
Odisha has declined permission to the proposal of a 54-km link canal for diversion of 85 million cubic metre water from Mahanadi to Tandula dam in neighbouring Chhattisgarh. The State government, in a letter to Central Water Commission, has objected to construction of a series of water reservoirs by Chhattisgarh …
The National Green Tribunal has ordered a joint inspection of the Polavaram dam construction site by the Andhra Pradesh government, state pollution control board and Polavaram Project Authority following a complaint about dumping of mud in the West Godavari district. The directive from a bench headed by NGT chief Justice …
A remarkable feature of nanobubbles (<10–6 m in diameter) is their long lifetime in water. Supplying oxygen-nanobubbles (NBs) to continuously flooded paddy soil may retard the development of reductive conditions, thereby reducing the emission of methane (CH4), a potent greenhouse gas, and dissolution of arsenic, an environmental load. We tested …
