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 World Bank announced today a USD 140 million project to support the Tunisian government’s focus on irrigated agriculture as a means of managing scarce water resources while creating economic opportunities, especially in underdeveloped rural regions. The new project will finance the repair of irrigation systems to make them more …
Chief Hikuminue Kapika of the Kapika Royal House has urged government to accelerate the construction of the Baynes hydropower plant, saying that the livelihood of his people lies in the project. Kapika, who has been known in the past for objecting to the construction of this project, made a U-turn …
Nairobi — The Water Resources Authority (WRA) is set to review the permits of all dam proprietors to ascertain their legal status, stability and safety. According to the Authority, the aim of the exercise will be to identify those dams at a high risk of breaching, to mitigate any negative …
A massive hydropower station under construction by a Chinese company in Zambia has created nearly 10,000 jobs for low-income locals and promises to ease severe power shortage in the underdeveloped southern African country. Zambia, like many other African countries, is facing severe power shortage, where only 25 percent of its …
Officials say all 40 persons reported missing from the deadly Solai dam incident have been accounted for.The European Union is giving $1.8m in emergency aid to help families affected by the deadly dam burst in Kenya. At least 45 people died in Nakuru County during the incident, which occurred after …
Authorities in Kenya have ordered an investigation into circumstances surrounding the Nakuru dam burst that left over 40 people dead. The walls of the reservoir, on top of a hill in Nakuru county, 190 km (120 miles) northwest of Nairobi, gave way late on Wednesday, unleashing a ‘sea of water’ …
Technical talks between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia over a disputed dam Ethiopia is building on the Nile river failed to make a breakthrough, Egypt's foreign minister said on Monday, amid pressure for a deal before the project opens this year. Egypt and Ethiopia are at loggerheads over the construction of …
Egypt's foreign minister has delivered a warning to Ethiopia over a dam it is building on a Nile River tributary. Sameh Shoukry says in TV comments aired Thursday that all parties "should know that Egypt will not accept the status quo ... and continues to defend the interests of its …
National Register of Large Dam (NRLD) is a compilation of the dams in the country prepared as per information received from the State Government/Authority concerned. In NRLD the definition of “large dams” has been adopted as per the norms of International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD). At present there are …
Delegations of Egypt and Ethiopia on Wednesday arrived in the Sudanese capital Khartoum to take part in a tripartite meeting regarding the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). Sudan's Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour and Sudan's Water Resources and Electricity Minister Mutaz Mussa received the Egyptian and Ethiopian delegations participating in the …
Madhya Pradesh government's proposed Majhgaon medium irrigation project, which will submerge 78.6 hectare of Panna Tiger Reserve's (PTR) buffer area and require 426.7 hectare of forestland, has been cleared by the environment ministry's Forest Advisory Committee (FAC). While granting in-principle approval for use of forestland from protected forest area, the …
Speaking at a water management awareness campaign at Zhombe Rio Tinto Agriculture College last Thursday, Dzvova urged the community members to safeguard the dam. “Here, at Ngondoma Dam, use of mercury and cyanide affects our livestock, our children at school and crops at Ngondoma irrigation scheme,” he said. “Gold panning, …
Cairo - Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has met his Egyptian counterpart in Cairo, as the two countries look to repair ties that were recently frayed over an upstream Nile dam being built by Ethiopia. At a joint press conference on Monday, al-Bashir and Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi vowed to cooperate …
Egypt was once called the "gift of the Nile" by the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. But today, more than 2,000 years later, Egyptians fret about the existential threat of a faraway dam to their water supply. Nearly seven years after Ethiopia began construction of the Renaissance Dam on the Nile …
SHIMLA: Green activists have started opposing the construction of dams along the Yamuna basin. They claimed that cumulative geological impacts of three huge impoundments – Tehri, Kishau and Renuka Dam in almost parallel valleys of a Himalayan region – adjacent to one another are not even being considered. Recently in …
Surface irrigation is a common pool resource characterized by asymmetric appropriation opportunities across upstream and downstream water users. Large canal systems are also predominantly managed by the state. This paper studies water allocation under an irrigation bureaucracy subject to corruption and rent-seeking. Data on the landholdings and political influence of …
Last Thursday, Hailemariam Desalegn unexpectedly resigned from his position saying he wanted smooth political reforms in Ethiopia. On Friday, Addis Ababa imposed the state of emergency in the country for six months. "In response to a request by the Ethiopian side, it was decided to postpone the tripartite meeting on …
Windhoek — The future of the Agro Marketing and Trade Agency (AMTA) fresh produce hub in Ongwediva is currently hanging in the balance after horticultural farmers in the vicinity of the Olushandja dam gave up on their irrigation projects due to inadequate water supply from the reservoir. Insufficient water in …
Namisinda/Manafwa — President Museveni has commissioned a 200km gravity water scheme in Manafwa District and urged residents to use the water for irrigation farming in order to increase crop production. The president said while giving his speech at Manafwa District headquarters on Saturday that the district leaders should mobilise the …
Leaders of Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia and Sudan have agreed to form a permanent committee to follow up on all issues of common concern particularly regarding the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). Egyptian president Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi (L), Sudanese president Omer al-Bashir (C) and Ethiopian prime minister Hailemariam Desalegn shake hands …
