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 …
Indonesia has set target to secure access to clean water for all people across the country by 2019 and planned to provide drinkable water directly from the faucets in large cities, a senior official said here Thursday. Head of an agency to support development in state-run drinking water firm, BPSPAM, …
A global, observation-based assessment of whole-ecosystem carbon turnover times shows that the overall mean global carbon turnover time is about 23 years and that locally its spatial variability depends on precipitation at least as strongly as on temperature.
This study presents a global analysis of urban water supply vulnerability in 71 surface-water supplied cities, with populations exceeding 750 000 and lacking source water diversity. Vulnerability represents the failure of an urban supply-basin to simultaneously meet demands from human, environmental and agricultural users. We assess a baseline (2010) condition …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Nityanand Mishra Vs State of Madhya Pradesh & Others dated 29/09/2014 regarding illegal sand mining in Son Ghariyal Sanctuary posing a threat to Ghariyals and the Soft Shell Turtles. The Tribunal has also noted that on …
Drought has altered landscape as it's depleted 63 trillion gallons of water across Western U.S., study says The West has risen an average of 1/6 inch since 2013 due to lower groundwater, according to scientists Report questions whether loss of groundwater could be triggering more earthquakes on San Andreas fault …
California Governor Jerry Brown agreed to boost water spending plans to $7.5 billion, a compromise 25 percent higher than he had said the state could afford, as drought tightened its grip on cities and farms. Brown signed the bill he brokered with state lawmakers to place a measure on the …
Over a 14-year period, the Colorado River basin in the U.S. has lost nearly 65 cubic km of freshwater, almost double the volume of the nation's largest reservoir, Nevada's Lake Mead. More than three-quarters of the total — about 50 cubic km was from groundwater. The basin region has been …
While 867 complaints of water contamination were registered in the first five months (January-May) of this year, with the onset of monsoon, the number of complaints in June alone was 1,128, as per data obtained from the BMC. The highest number of contaminated water samples in June, 857 complaints or …
Villagers near Miyun Reservoir in north Beijing are luring tourists to fish and swim in the city's largest drinking-water source,which is not allowed by regulations,the Beijing Youth Daily reported. The reservoir and several villages, including Heiwo, are part of a protected area. People other than reservoir staff and local villagers …
In a letter written to the Chief Minister of Haryana, Bhupender Singh Hooda, BJP Delhi Pradesh president Satish Upadhyay has demanded that the Haryana government should release 381 cusecs of water through Tejawala Reservoir for Delhi in compliance with the 1994 agreement. Upadhyay said that Haryana curtails release of water …
NEW DELHI: The Centre plans to create mega reservoirs by dredging the bed of the Yamuna for which the Dutch government has agreed to facilitate an action plan. "To rejuvenate the river and meet the water requirements, a scheme has been worked out involving creation of mega reservoirs by dredging …
California lawmakers are racing a deadline to overhaul an $11 billion bond program to upgrade aqueducts, reservoirs and pipelines, some almost a century old, under pressure from a third year of severe drought. Polls show the water bond now on the November ballot, left over from the administration of Republican …
Drought-stricken California could increase its water supply by a third by reusing water that would otherwise go down the drain and saving storm runoff, environmentalists said on Tuesday amid wrangling over the state's response to dry conditions. The report by the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Pacific Institute came …
Bangladesh Agriculture Development Corporation (BADC) has constructed a substandard creek barrage cutting hills and violating rules of Department of Environment (DoE) at South Muslimpara under Matiranga upazila in Khagrachhari district. Due to massive cutting, the hills may collapse if heavy rains occur and block paddy cultivation on some 75 acres …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Jagat Narayan Viswakarma & Ors. Vs. Union of India & Ors. And Ashwani Kumar Dubey Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 13/05/2014 regarding the pollution of Gobind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand Reservoir) caused by industries. …
Judgement of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of State of Tamil Nadu Vs State of Kerala dated 07/05/2014 regarding water level of Mullaperiyar dam. State of Kerala – is restrained by a decree of permanent injunction from applying and enforcing the impugned legislation or in any manner …
The forecast of a weak monsoon this year has brought back worries of a water crisis in the country. Water is fast depleting in key reservoirs, and although current levels are significantly higher than normal in most places with the exception of south India, a slow start to the monsoon …
Wards in Vadavalli, Veerakeralam to benefit The Coimbatore Corporation will partially fund the Rs. 42-crore drinking water supply augmentation scheme it has proposed for the Wards in Kavundampalayam, Vadavalli and Veerakeralam. Sources in the civic body said that it would spend Rs. 10 crore and go in for a loan …
