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 …
Dwindling storage level in dams and no sign of rains in the catchment areas has become a cause of worry for the Tirunelveli district administration. It conducted a meeting to review the situation and gear up the official machinery for possibly a worst summer. The level in the Papanasam Dam …
Asking Maharashtra government to take the weak monsoon forecast and low reservoir levels in the state seriously, NGO Greenpeace today demanded urgent assessment of water diversion to thermal power plants. “Last week, two new pieces of information were released — one by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) and another by …
But Hassan district may have shortage this time going down: The dipping water level in the Hemavathi reservoir may hit water supply to Hassan town. DH photo Cities like Mysore, Bangalore and Mandya may not face a drinking water problem this year, with the Krishnarajasagar (KRS) and Kabini reservoirs recording …
In a significant development on role of hydropower projects in Uttarakhand flood disaster of June 2013, the Expert Body (EB) headed by Dr Ravi Chopra has recommended that at least 23 hydropower projects should be dropped, that hydropower projects played significant role in the Uttarakhand disaster and that there is …
The government, as part of its campaign to supply adequate drinking water, has developed special programmes to distribute and improve water supply in order to address the existing acute crunch. Recent government plans include improving reservoirs, refurbishing the distribution network system and enhance the capacity of old and unmanaged pipeline …
Successive state governments in Uttarakhand have pursued economic growth through industrialization without taking into account the fragility of the state’s mountains. A massive rain storm in June 2013 exposed the inherently fragile character of the mountain region. As a battered state began to rehabilitate itself the Supreme Court directed the …
The country is stepping up its effort to improve infrastructure, with a focus on water conservation facilities in rural areas, with a launch of 70 billion yuan ($11.29 billion) in separate investments this year, a senior official said on Wednesday. This year’s spending from the central government’s budget on agriculture, …
Amidst opposition from villagers, the Water Resources Department (WRD) is looking to expedite the creation of a reservoir in Thervoy Kandigai and Kannankottai villages in Tiruvallur district to store and supply water to Chennai. A major chunk of the necessary land has been acquired. With nearly 750 acres of patta …
Large dams run 96 percent over budget on average, according to a University of Oxford study based on projects in 65 countries including Brazil and China. The study, to be published today in the journal Energy Policy, showed that large dams also took about 2.3 years longer to complete than …
Standing Committee on Water Resources (2013-2014) present the Twenty First Report on 'Review of Ganga Flood Control Commission'. The Committee (2008-2009) was the first to take up the subject 'Ganga Flood Control Commission' for detailed examination and report. The succeeding Standing Committees on Water Resources for the years 2009-2010 and …
Residents of 18 villages located within the limits of the Darawat Dam project are resisting relocation without settlement of their claims, pressing the Water and Power Development Authority to ask the Sindh government to pay Rs200 million compensation to the affectees. According to official sources and documents reviewed by Dawn …
The disastrous Seti flash flood that claimed 72 lives and left dozens homeless less than two years ago was the result of a rockslide in the Seti-River gorge which created an artificial reservoir, according to the latest field research by the US-based National Aeronautical System Administration (NASA). The deadly event …
California Governor Jerry Brown is expected to declare a drought emergency for the parched state on Friday, allowing him to seek federal help as the state faces its third dry winter in a row, according to a Democratic political source and local media. California has just completed what may turn …
The Sri Lankan government has awarded a US$ 74 million contract to the California-based US engineering firm Tetra Tech to set up a new water treatment plant. The company in a press release announced Wednesday that it has been awarded the US$ 74 million contract principally financed by the United …
Some of the world's largest and most deadly recent earthquakes were not natural disasters at all but were caused by human activities such as mining, reservoir construction and oil and gas extraction, scientists say. A global study of hundreds of quakes by Christian Klose, a consultant geophysicist, identified 92 large …
An amount of Rs 8,081 million has been released for the construction of dams and reservoirs in the country during the current financial year 2013-14, Minister for Water and Power Khawaja Asif said Wednesday. In a written reply to the question of Syeda Sugra Imam, he said a total of …
The State government will ban stone quarrying in a five-km radius of dams and reservoirs in Karnataka. Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister T B Jayachandra told the Assembly on Wednesday that an order would be issued to this effect. During the discussion on Karnataka Regulation of Stone Crushers (Amendment) Bill, …
The Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has reportedly cleared allotment of 50 acres of land at Ghanpur to the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB;) for construction of a master balancing reservoir (MBR) as part of the Godavari drinking water supply project. Once the reservoir comes …
The govt has released so far Rs 2,076 million for construction of dams and water reservoirs during current financial year 2013-14 to effectively meet future power needs. The amount released also included Rs 231.51 million which is WAPDA’s self-financing. WAPDA sources said here on Thursday the government has set nine …
Despite abundant freshwater aquaculture resources in the state, Odisha depending on Andhra Pradesh to meet its demand for fish is really unfortunate, said experts at a workshop organized at the Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture (CIFA) here on Saturday. "There is an urgent need to develop entrepreneurship in freshwater aquaculture …
