Order of National Green Tribunal (Central Zone Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Kamlesh Roj Vs State of Rajasthan & Others dated 21/01/2025. The issue raised in the application are protection of historical Hingonia Dam from the encroachment from the local residence violating the environmental norms and damaging the area …
UNESCO is setting up an international centre on water resource management in India. Announcing this at a press conference in New Delhi, Dr. Federico Mayor, Director General, UNESCO said that the decision has been taken as water was "the priority of all priorities" and India has rich expertise in all …
environmentalists have been expressing concern over the construction of Glen Canyon Dam for long. The dam has curbed the flow of the Colorado river above the Grand Canyon creating Lake Powell. The dam altered the Colorado river's natural pattern of yearly summer flooding and thus eliminated the usual seasonal variations …
Mexico city is sinking. So much water has been pumped out from the aquifer beneath it to satisfy the metropolitan area's 18 million residents that the ground is collapsing underfoot at a stunning rate. Mexico City has sunk 30 feet. The sinking has made the original gravity fed drainage system …
The Tarakzai tribals of Peshawar have threatened to blow up the Warsak dam, cutting off electricity to the whole of Punjab province, if power supply is not immediately restored to their areas facing a blackout for quite some time now. The meeting demanded immediate restoration of power supply to the …
Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) activists have opposed the Maheshwar hydel power project in Khargone district. Five members of the andolan have been on an indefinite fast at the project site since Monday.
The Ooty Lake situation is deteriorating with fish, which are abundant in the lake, reportedly being found dead in large numbers. Enquiries here reveal that toxic waste materials have been discharged into the lake, through the main channel of the town.Disinfectants sprayed in the channel have also found their way …
The committee of secretaries has recommended shelving of three major power projects worth Rs 5,000 crore. The projects include Farakka expansion phase -III, Koel Karo hydel project and Koel Karo transmission projects.
Malaysia's Finance Minister Anwar Ibrahim said the government cannot commit itself to fully reimbursing outlay on construction of the deferred Bakun dam project in Borneo. Compensation to companies involved in the project would be based on what had been disbursed for the project and what could be certified by auditors …
A little over five years after the passage of a series of sweeping legislation that paved the way for private and foreign participation on hydropower development, the Nepal government is now taking measures to amend some of those laws "to meet the challenges of the future".
The former Water Resources and Narmada Valley Development minister Sheetala Sahai has charged the State government of adopting short term policies in the area of water resource development and said that the government has failed to increase its irrigation capacity even by one hectare inspite of loans to the tune …
Bhutanese environmentalists are trying to save a lake, the shrinking of which local people believe would spell disaster for their community. The Shadilutso lake in the central part of the country is eulogised in Bhutanese folklore for bringing prosperity. A part of the lake, which once had a circumference of …
The scenic Kolleru lake, one of the few largest freshwater inland lakes in the world, is fast becoming extinct, endangering a rich variety of animal and plant species, due to indiscriminate exploitation and encroachment of the water body.
The Janata Party president, Dr. Subramanian Swamy has urged the Tamil Nadu Government to bring out a "white paper" on the issue of raising Periyar Dam Water level to 152 feet.
Discussion on the Nepal-India Mahakali Water Treaty ended here on Friday with the water secretaries of the two countries deciding to instruct the joint group of experts to meet at the earliest, and to regularly review the finalisation of the Pancheswore multi-purpose project.
The Narmada Bachao Andolan would resort to indefinite fast from 26 January at the dam site of the 1,500 -crore Maheshwar Hydel Project in Khargone district in western Madhya Pradesh in order to press for a complete review of the project. Mr Alok Agarwal said that the six people would …
Theambitious Indira Gandhi (Rajasthan) Canal Project , designed to meet the water needs of a large part of the desert belt of Rajastha, may well turn out to be an ecological disaster, experts fear. Though the final completion of the project is still awaited even 37 years after the digging …
The basin of the Colorado River covers 244,000 square miles of territory and provides water to 25m people, 16m in California alone. So much importance is attached to the distribution of the river's annual surplus of water that the decision is made by the secretary of the interior, no less.
The villagers on the 'siege' of the controversial Maheshwar dam in the Narmada Valley gheroed the owner-proprietor of the dam on Thursday, and reiterated their resolve not to move out from their village. A press release issued by the Narmada Bachao Andolan here stated that the villagers, stopped them to …
Construction work at the Kaligandaki-A hydroelectric project site nearly came to a standstill as a crowd of agitated villagers smashed a bulldozer. The agitators were demanding jobs as promised from the project.
For the residents of 22 villages on the bank of Karjan river, the proposed Naniborsan dam at Chaudgam stirs up bad memories. Displaced once before under the Ukai dam project, they refuse to go through the ordeal of seeing their villages submerged again.
