The global cost of disasters is growing: The economic burden of disasters is intensifying. While the direct costs of disasters averaged $70–80 billion a year between 1970 and 2000, between 2001 and 2020 these annual costs grew significantly to $180–200 billion. But the real cost is far higher. Disaster costs …
Call it the fallout of rapid urbanisation or plain negligence of the authorities, groundwater in Dhaka is sinking at an alarming rate. According to a study by the Institute of Water Modelling in Dhaka in 2009, groundwater in the city is going down three metres every year. It has sunk …
In spite of a looming water crisis, the Delhi government and the various civic agencies are still to get their act together. NEHA LALCHANDANI writes Neha Lalchandani The rapid pace of urbanization is putting immense pressure on the country
The Roorkee based National Institute of Hydrology (NIH) will now undertake studies in collaboration with the Uttarakhand Space Application Centre (USAC) on various important aspects related to water in the State. It is hoped that the collaboration between USAC and NIH would pave the way for various important research and …
Largest user of groundwater is India: World BankLauds Andhra model of self-regulationTHIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A World Bank report has expressed concern at the over-exploitation of groundwater in India.The report carried in a recent issue of the publication
Nellore, Aug. 18: Groundwater levels have increased considerably in Nellore district in the recent past. Unlike other parts of the state, Nellore region usually experiences rains during the northeast monsoon between October and December. However, for the first time in the last 10 years, rains lashed the district during the …
The Andhra Government intends to check depleting groundwater levels by roping in farmers to monitor its use. Monya and Ashutosh Mishra wonder if it will result in a shift to less water intensive cropsShekhar, 25, committed suicide a year ago. A resident of Burgupalle village in Andhra Pradesh's Mahabubnagar district, …
Soon, dried-up lake in Ghata village will give way to Sec 58 a residential colony in Gurgaon. Work has already started Dipak Kumar Dash | TNN What was once a sprawling waterbody will now be a concrete jungle. Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) is developing a lake in Ghata village
THE Planning Commission has advised the Haryana government to impose a cess on electricity used for cultivation and use the funds to replenish depleting ground water. The country
C Shivakumar | ENS Chennai, May 30 Some of them don't even exist, putting the groundwater table under strain THE capacity of water bodies in and around the city has shrunk by at least 20 per cent, and some of them don't even exist, putting the groundwater table under severe …
Utkarsh Anand As groundwater depletes in the Capital at an alarming rate, Delhi is all set to have its own regulatory body to combat the twin problem of paucity of water and illegal extraction of groundwater. The new policy will be notified next week. A Delhi government affidavit, submitted in …
S Lalitha, May 5, Bangalore, DHNS: Bangaloreans making use of freshly pumped borewell water for drinking purposes need to put an abrupt end to the practice. For, the carcinogenic, radioactive gas, Radon has been found to be present 100 times above the permissible limit in water samples analysed across the …
KENDRAPARA: Women carrying pitchers and trudging miles to fetch water is a common sight in the interior areas of Kendrapara these days. Water crisis has gripped the villages as summer slowly peaks. Due to over exploitation of groundwater over past few years, the water table has gone down drastically in …
LUCKNOW: The delay by the Central and state groundwater boards in releasing the 2008 groundwater assessment report might dislodge the huge efforts made by the state groundwater department and crores of rupees being pumped in by the government to replenish the fast depleting groundwater reservoirs in UP. Principal secretary, groundwater …
