Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
The Flood Control Order-2013 was released by the Delhi Government today in a meeting held to discuss arrangements for controlling floods during the monsoon which is expected to hit the Capital by this monthend. A meeting of the apex committee was held to review the arrangements to meet any challenge. …
This book results from an international collaborative effort to explore and distil best practice approaches to flood risk management in challenging large scale and inter-related environments. Part A provides a historical perspective on the flood events that have shaped modern approaches. Part B describes emerging good practice, including: the purpose …
Guwahati, April 5: To mitigate the artificial flood in Guwahati city, the Kamrup metropolitan district administration has been taking various steps. The district administration has observed that improper dumping of garbage/waste and contamination of water of the natural drains like Bharalu, Mora Bharalu, Bahini etc. by public and commercial establishments …
Uganda’s wetlands are an important stock of natural capital producing goods and services that have economic value. Despite the need to conserve them, their loss to unsustainable resource utilization activities has continued because they are considered to have little or no economic value. This study aimed at highlighting the economic …
A flood may cause innumerable problems such as loss of agricultural produce, water logging, erosion of land, health hazards and loss of human lives. Heavy rain causes flood. Inadequate rain causes drought. In other words, flood occurred when drainage facility is not able to drain out the supply of water …
The Nationals and Greens encourage the PM's Warragamba dam plan, but disagree on moves to expand the policy nationwide. Raising the height of the Warragamba dam wall to protect one of Australia's most flood-prone regions from inundation is not the best approach, a leading water researcher says. Responding to reports …
Sitapur: Taking a cue from their counterparts in Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh, who participated in neck-deep ‘Jal Satyagraha’ in September 2012 demanding the lowering of the water level in the Omkareshwar dam, as many as 1,500 residents of Kashipur village and some others from the neighbouring Kamharia and Barhinpurwa …
The Gujarat government on Wednesday announced its annual budget for 2013-14, pegged at R1,14,450 crore with an annual development plan of R58,500 crore. The farmer-youth-women centric budget presented by finance minister Nitin Patel has allocated the largest chunk of available resources to social service (R24,586 crore), followed by irrigation and …
Lucknow: With a total of Rs 17,174 crore allocated for agriculture and allied sectors, UP budget-2013 is all set to shower some bounty on Uttar Pradesh’s farm sector. Last year, when chief minister Akhilesh Yadav presented the state budget, he made provisions for farmer loan waivers worth Rs 500 crore. …
China to build 3 hydropower projects on the Brahmaputra The Chinese government said on Monday that the new hydropower dams it was planning to build on the Brahmaputra river would not impact flood control efforts or the ecological environment in downstream regions. The Chinese Foreign Ministry said it was maintaining …
SILCHAR: Hundreds of bighas of Agricultural land and large areas of human settlements are being continuously washed away due to erosion of river Barak across Cachar. Despite people’s outcry and representations to the authorities concerned, no action plan has been initiated for protective measures. In fact, this is not a …
Mainstreaming DRR and climate change adaptation in local development planning processes lessons and experiences from Sri Lanka by Bhathiya Kekulandala, Practical Action at CSE Climate change adaptation workshop: Towards Climate Resilient Communities in South Asia: Emerging Policies and Practices (New Delhi, December 13 - 14, 2012).
Shanghai is a low-lying city (3–4 m elevation) surrounded on three sides by the East China Sea, the Yangtze River Estuary, and Hangzhou Bay. With a history of rapid changes in sea level and land subsidence, Shanghai is often plagued by extreme typhoon storm surges. The interaction of sea level …
Exploring adaptation pathways into an uncertain future can support decisionmaking in achieving sustainable water management in a changing environment. Our objective is to develop and test a method to identify such pathways by including dynamics from natural variability and the interaction between the water system and society. Present planning studies …
This document reports on a workshop addressing the problems and impacts of floods and aiming to provide more understandable and action-oriented information to policymakers in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) region (Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka), in order to develop a regional road …
Jorhat, Nov. 9: The Tinsukia district administration has decided to set up a common granary bank and a shelter house on a raised platform in each village in the highly flood-prone villages in the district, to tide over the difficult situation during the rainy season. In a novel initiative by …
In tune with the draft National Water Policy, 2012, Government of Puducherry has decided to formulate a State Water Policy with an operational action plan in order to achieve the desired objectives. This water policy is applicable to all the water resources in the Union Territory. A Water Resources Control …
A website that enables the collation and sharing of information on river restoration projects across Europe was launched yesterday. The web-based information tool, River Wiki, has been modelled around the Wikipedia website and will be used by European government agencies, engineers, ecologists, planners and other parties involved in restoring rivers. …
Weirs are engineering structures often used in irrigation, sewer networks and flood protection works. Sharp-crested weirs are the simplest form of over-flow spillway that commonly used to determine the flow rate in hydraulic laboratories, industry and irrigation systems, where highly accurate discharge measurements are needed.
The Delhi Government has taken a very serious view on water-logging and will not tolerate any type of negligence in this regard, said Urban Development Minister Arvinder Singh at a meeting on Thursday to discuss water-logging issues faced by the city. He said that the Government will fix the responsibility …
