Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
Effective business water accounting methods are critical for sustainable water management, according to the new Pacific Institute report Corporate Water Accounting: an Analysis of Methods and Tools for Measuring Water Use and Its Impact, prepared for the United Nations Environment Programme and the CEO Water Mandate. Current methods are a …
JAIPUR: A sub-committee of the Rajasthan Cabinet has approved a new draft water policy for the desert State after detailed deliberations on its different aspects as well as methods to deal with large-scale paucity of water. According to an official release here, the draft policy will be submitted shortly to …
This new water policy for Rajasthan presents the framework for sustainable development and management of water resources in the state. It focuses towards community-level empowerment and responsibility for water management. The objectives of the state water policy are: to adopt a integrated and multi sectoral approach to the water resources …
A comprehensive assessment and ranking of water disclosure practices by Ceres of 100 publicly-traded companies in 8 key sectors exposed to water-related risks - beverage, chemicals, electric power, food, homebuilding, mining, oil & gas and semiconductors. This report is the ?rst comprehensive assessment and ranking of water disclosure practices of …
Even as the recent financial crisis has led to a questioning of the ideological regimes that have been dominant since the 1990s in India, the processes that have already been set in motion
Ahmedabad: India needs a robust framework of water policy through constitutional declaration of the place of water in Indian society, said Vinod Gaur, distinguished professor, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, and Centre for Mathematical Modelling (C-MMACS) Bangalore. Gaur was speaking on
This paper makes an attempt to assess the water sector under scarcity conditions in the State of Rajasthan. It adopts the criteria of physical, economic, financial and equity performance across sub-sectors. The assessment brought out clearly that no indicator has shown satisfactory performance in any of the sub-sectors. Though the …
The State Water Policy focuses on key areas of water management, which include: Building an enabling environment; Implementing a range of institutional tools, including local capacity building and participatory approaches; and Integrating new management tools and systems such as the integrated data systems, water demand management and a new communication …
This handbook provides guidance for improving the governance of freshwater resources, in particular through effective implementation of the integrated water resources management (IWRM) approach in lake, river and aquifer basins. It articulates the links between challenges and IWRM responses; suggests ways of setting up or modernising basin organisations to facilitate …
Advancing water security to reduce poverty and environmental degradation. Ensuring that water is a key part of national development amid growing competition for water. Addressing critical development challenges to water security such as climate change. These goals lie at the heart of the vision and mission of GWP and its …
The ASHWAS survey is a process of enquiry about the water, sanitation and hygiene situation in rural Karnataka. It has a number of unusual features which distinguish it from more conventional surveys. Firstly, it is a citizen's survey in that it places a high premium on the perceptions of the …
Water and sediment samples were takes near the sewage discharge point on the eastern Red Sea Coast of Jeddah and analyzed for PAH and fecal sterols like coprostanol, cholesterol and cholestanol. PAH were estimated spectrofluorometrically and then further analyzed by GC-MS. Sterols were derivatized by BSTFA into their corresponding trimethyl …
Ground water has emerged as an important source to meet the water requirements of various sectors including the major consumers of water like irrigation, domestic and industries. The sustainable development of ground water resource requires precise quantitative assessment based on reasonably valid scientific principles. The Ground Water Estimation Committee- 1984 …
This publication comprises the proceedings of the UNESCO Chair Workshop on "International Strategy for Sustainable Groundwater Management: Transboundary Aquifers and Integrated Watershed Management" held on 6 October 2009 at the Laboratory of Advanced Research A, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba City, Japan in conjunction with the JSPS-DGHE Joint Research Project Meeting. …
This paper analyses the relationship between water management and poverty reduction. All aspects of poverty are considered: this is reflected in the analysis of water
This paper is in two parts. The first part presents a brief review of progress made since the Water Action Plan was agreed at the 2003 G8 Summit in Evian, France. It includes an introduction to some of the key themes of the United Nations World Water Development Report 3: …
A bill to provide for the establishment of the Andhra Pradesh water resources regulatory commission for regulation of water resources within the state of Andhra Pradesh, facilitate effective utilization of water resources within the state to ensure its sustainable and scientific management for drinking, agriculture, industrial and other purposes and …
Even as the Union Water Resources Ministry is planning to introduce a tighter regulatory mechanism to check indiscriminate use of ground water resources, peasant associations are set to protest the move as they feel it would 'eliminate small and marginal farmers'. Sources said that to check the 'indiscriminate use of …
