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 permissible limit for nitrates is 40 milligrams a litre, but in most areas, the presence of nitrates ranges between 45 and 100 mg/ litre. Ground water in many parts of Bengaluru urban and rural may be contaminated with carcinogenic nitrates, warns the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB). A senior …
Random drilling of bore wells in the state's water-scarce areas for both drinking and irrigation has led to a drop of up to 4 metres (13.12 ft) in 40% (13 out of 33 districts) in Gujarat, a study conducted by the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) has found. The CGWB …
Jaipur: The water table of Jaipur city which is receding at an alarming rate is expected to revive after the Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) completes the rejuvenation work of Dravyavati river . Tata group, which will execute the project in 30 months will construct 85 check dams and 122 fall …
NEW DELHI: Haryana will become the first state in the country to have aquifer mapping done for its groundwater resources by May. An aquifer is an underground layer of water-bearing rock, from which groundwater can be extracted. The mapping will assist the state in estimating the quantity and quality of …
After one and a half years, MPCB yet to to devise a remedial action plan to restore groundwater quality in the Waluj Industrial Area in Aurangabad district he National Green Tribunal has pulled up the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) for not complying with its directions for preparing a remedial …
Haryana will be the first state where mapping of underground water will be completed. This would be done by May, said sources. The mapping is being conducted by the Union Ministry of Water Resources to find the status of underground water and measures needed to be taken to recharge the …
Kolkata: The West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) is in the process of selecting agencies that will collect environmental samples from the industrial areas of Asansol, Howrah, Haldia and Durgapur and send them to a laboratory for the analysis of the quality of the ambient air and surface as well …
As per Central Ground Water Board and Central Water Commission investigation, the major rivers of Arunachal Pradesh are free from pollution and also the ground water is of excellent quality with all the parameters within permissible limits. This was disclosed by K Ramanand, Scientist, Central Ground Water Board, North Eastern …
PUNE: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) bench here has directed the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) and the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) to jointly identify industries in the state that discharge effluents with higher fluoride content into treated waste water. The court also asked the two government bodies to …
Constitutes A Seven-Member Panel To Quickly Complete Aquifer Mapping Seeking to carry forward the Gujarat-model o irrigation reform in the country and to quickly com plete the task of aquifer map ping to quantify available groundwater resources, the Centre has constituted a sev en-member committee to res tructure the central …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT), Eastern Zone Bench, on Monday, directed the chief secretary to file a report on the arsenic situation in West Bengal. The NGT had earlier expressed concern after going through a report on arsenic contamination in Kolkata that appeared in The Times of India. Environment activist …
NOIDA: A principal bench of the National Green Tribunal, headed by Justice Swatanter Kumar, on Tuesday, ordered all NCR city authorities to create special committees that will look into the extent of groundwater usage by builders at construction sites. "The court has ordered city authorities to set up committees, which …
The resource being exploited for drinking, irrigation and industrial purposes Underground water is receding in eight valleys of Himachal where it was being exploited for drinking, irrigation and industrial purposes. The Central Water Board (CWB) for Himalayan region, an organization of Union Ministry for Water Resources, has been studying the …
The Rajasthan River Basin and Water Resources Planning Authority (RRBWRPA), tasked with the responsibility of reviving the mythical Saraswati river is likely to submit its report to the state government in six months. "We would be coordinating with ISRO, Central Ground Water Board, State Ground Water Board, another agency working …
Even as rainwater harvesting strategy in urban areas has gone haywire due to its slipshod implementation, Lord Jagannath seems to have borne the brunt of adverse impacts of depleting groundwater table. Experts, who inspected drying of two sacred wells inside Shree Jagannath Temple, concluded that natural groundwater recharge was hampered …
The groundwater monitoring data of Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) for pre-monsoon 2014, compared with decadal mean of pre-monsoon (2004-2013), indicates that 71 per cent wells in Jharkhand show rise in groundwater level, said Union Minister of State for water resources, river development and Ganga rejuvenation Professor Sanwar Lal Jat …
With the groundwater level in Noida and Greater Noida depleting by over one metre a year as per the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB), the authorities have started a crackdown on illegal extraction here. There are anywhere between 500 and 1,000 unauthorised borewells and bottling plants that cater to large …
Activists claim nearly 1,000 such plants operate in the area. With the groundwater level in Noida and Greater Noida depleting by over one metre a year as per the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB), the authorities have started a crackdown on illegal extraction here. There are anywhere between 500 and …
Panjab University (PU)’s rainwater harvesting project, which was held up due to financial constraints, is expected to be functional this monsoon. According to PU’s executive engineer R K Rai, as many as 56,000 litres of rainwater will be harvested. “Each structure has a capacity of 1,000 litres, so we are …
The report of the Central Groundwater Board (CGWB) said that as many as 31% of the wells analysed in Maharashtra in November 2014 had water levels a good 5 to 10 metres below the surface. The levels were between 2 and 5 metres in 44% of the wells surveyed in …
