Affidavit by Pune Municipal Corporation in OA No.32/2024 (WZ) (Anuj Abhay Deshpande V/s Pune Municipal Corporation & Ors.) dated 16/02/2024. The matter related to construction of new water reservoirs by Pune Municipal Corporation at Fergusson College Hill. Three new water tanks have been proposed at Bhamburda (Shivajinagar) Gut No 262 …
inter-state water conflicts have become the stock-in-trade of Indian politics. They are easy matter for politicians and technocrats to milk. The disputes most often end up in the Supreme Court with an uneasy imbroglio making matters easy for politicking. The kafuffle over the century old Mullaperiyar dam on the river …
Any reduction in water spread area at a specified elevation over a time period is indicative of sediment deposition at this level. This when integrated over a range of water stages helps in computing volume of storage lost through sedimentation. This study relates to estimation of capacity loss due to …
Water from the Guanting reservoir, Beijing's fourth largest drinking source, was not fit for human consumption or irrigation during the month of October, the Chinese capital's environmental protection agency reported in its latest monthly water quality report. Water from the reservoir did not meet the number five standard, the lowest …
Big hydropower projects are poised to re-enter the good books of the World Bank (wb) and the Asian Development Bank (adb). In the early 1990s, the wb had stopped funding the Sardar Sarovar Project under pressure from the Narmada Bachao Andolan. That marked the beginning of a phase during which …
Variations in climate, land-use and water consumption can have profound effects on river runoff. There is an increasing demand to study these factors at the regional to river basin-scale since these effects will particularly affect water resources management at this level. This paper presents a method that can help to …
It's that season again: when the prime minister, the Union and state ministers for agriculture and water resources, the Planning Commission, the World Bank and others busy themselves in finding a panacea for agriculture's ills. In fact, they do have a surefire solution: increase water storage capacities through large dams. …
LTTE's water war: In the last week of July, the Sri Lankan army launched a ground offensive against Tamil tiger rebels to regain control over a key water reservoir in the northeastern city of Trincomalee district. The battle is considered to be the fiercest since the 2002 cease-fire agreement. Till …
The province of Balochistan and parts of Sindh province of Pakistan are in the grip of a drought. This is likely to affect cotton, rice and sugarcane crops, the mainstay of the country's agrarian economy. Experts say lack of rain is not the main reason for water shortage in Pakistan. …
The case of the effort to build a small dam in Bhulaveda in Paschim Midnapur district of West Bengal shows that in struggles between government agencies and local self-government, the losers are often the villagers themselves.
An increase in population, unplanned expansion in the command area of the river Bhavani in Tamil Nadu and the growing domestic and industrial demand for water have intensified competition among water users in the river basin.
The present book on rainwater harvesting, is the perfect guide where detailed plans for adopting very economical rain water harvesting schemes for houses of different types is given.
the Arunachal Pradesh (ap) government has decided not to undertake or allow construction of any new reservoir-based mega-dams in the state, chief minister Geogang Apang announced at the National Development Council meeting at Delhi, held on June 27-28 2005. The state had already conveyed its decision to the Union government …
Analysis of multi-date satellite sensor data and maps indicated loss of 1836 ha of land during 1976–2001 along the Godavari deltaic coast resulting in displacement of coastal communities and mangrove destruction. Decrease in sediment loads from an annual average of 145.26 million tons in 1971–79 to 56.76 million tons during …
Concentrations of trace metals in the flesh of nine fish species commonly found in commercial catches of a hydro-power reservoir in Sri Lanka (Victoria) were detected using the Neutron Activation Technique. High concentrations of Al (37.8 - 208.0 μg•g-1 dry wt.) and Rb (20.90 - 70.75 μg•g-1 dry wt.) were …
Mention Chennai and the first thing people want to know about is the availability of water, besides the heat of course. This summer the scarcity could be the worst ever for the 55 lakh people in Tamil Nadu's capital city, not to speak of the several lakhs living in its …
Untrammeled urbanisation has put paid to many water bodies in Hyderabad. The latest victims are the Osmansagar and Himayatsagar reservoirs. These human-made lakes have supplied the bulk of the city's water needs for nearly eight decades. In 2002, Hyderabad received about 45 million gallons of water each day from Himayatsagar …
The Krishna river waters have changed course. They are suddenly flowing in the reverse direction, from the lower riparian state of Karnataka to Maharashtra which is an upper riparian state. But the water is bypassing Andhra Pradesh even though it falls in the way. The reverse flow is Congress-ruled Karnataka's …
Take some sand in a glass container; fill it with water. Shake the container. The water and sand become a single fluid mass. Now imagine a highly populated town standing on this material. You can't even imagine what will happen when an earthquake strikes . Once you know this, how …