Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
This paper critically examines some narratives of water scarcity in Kutch, western India. It argues that images of dwindling rainfall and increasing drought largely serve to legitimize the controversial Sardar Sarovar dam and manufacture dominant perceptions concerning scarcity. This manufacture has naturalized scarcity in the region and largely benefits powerful …
Opel Astra, General Motors's sleekly-modelled luxury car might be zooming on the streets, the company may have bagged the third position in the grp rating, but its environmental credentials are far from being top notch. In fact, the overall score of just 40.77 per cent, reveals its poor environmental performance …
This paper deals with how urban Indian households obtain water for their daily requirements. The link between economic status and access allows the analysis of issues such as water sharing, sole access, ability to pay, need for improvements, etc. The authors also put forth a strategy for levying user charges …
there is no cacophony of speeding two-stroke motorbikes, the ambience is serene and there is an abounding greenery that pleases the eyes. Self sustained with water, the zone is tobacco-free. This is not an ashram or a place of worship, but the Anna University campus in Chennai. One of the …
For the villagers of Lava ka Baas in Alwar district of Rajasthan, the Ramon Magsaysay award for Rajendra Singh, secretary of the Alwar-based Tarun Bharat Sangh could not have come at a more opportune time. After their face off with the irrigation department, who questioned the safety and the legality …
young people can turn environmental problems into a global issue. This was the opinion expressed during the Youth World Water Forum ( ywwf ) held from June 25-28, 2001, in the Netherlands. More than 200 students and water experts from all over the world gathered at Hogeschool Zeeland University, Vlissengen, …
Two people died and 40 others were injured during one of Pakistan's worst riots over water on June 10, 2001. The incident took place during a rally organised by a political party called Jiye Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (jsqm) and the Jeay Sindh Students Federation against the severe water shortage in …
for Gujarat's earthquake victims the future is parched. Amid the ruins of the state government's tall claims of putting in place a rehabilitation package, the state government has totally forgotten about the water storage facilities badly damaged by the earthquake. The result: Saurashtra and Kachhch will face a storage of …
What does a common person do when confronted with a water shortage? Well B K Roy Burman, an anthropologist from Delhi's Chittaranjan Park, went on a fast for two days to protest against the problem. He demanded a more equitable and transparent pattern for the distribution of water by the …
at a time when the capital is facing a severe water crisis, the Delhi Jal Board ( djb ) seems least concerned about the problem. On May 11, the Delhi high court ( hc ) summoned the djb along with the Municipal Corporation of Delhi ( mcd ), New Delhi …
As Pakistan reels under a severe drought, water scarcity has become a common problem. In Sindh province several protests have been held against the water crisis. "In a country where public demonstrations are banned, many people, including women, are agitating against the government for the water problems,' says Tanveer Arif …
Water is an element that has been the mantra (formula) for prosperity. Yet, it is fast becoming both polluted and scarce. The revival of the traditional systems of water harvesting can be decisive in demarcating drought and greenery. Neemi village off the Delhi-Jaipur highway, learnt this historical truth when Tarun …
Sources once considered renewable are diminishing rapidly. Water is one element which, is declining in the face of human onslaught. India's historic billionth baby has not led the government to take concrete measures to control this rapid population growth. Jabalpur is located in the heart of Madhya Pradesh and lies …
Ground water levels in Kathmandu , Nepal's capital , are falling because of increasing industrialisation and urbanisation.This was stated in the State of Environment Nepal 2001report , which has been prepared by the government with the help of several international non-governmental organisations (NGOs).Studies prove that more than 50 percent of …
Situated in the heart of the once proud and prosperous Malwa Plateau, the rapidly growing city of Indore, buffetted by the waters of the Narmada, is today facing an acute water crisis. The municipality cannot supply enough water and the groundwater table is falling, and whatever there is of groundwater …
sewage and industrial wastewater have been treated and reused in India for agriculture for well over 100 years, and in industries for the last 30-40 years. In spite of this reuse, there is a great untapped potential if some other options are also considered. Groundwater recharge with freshwater, for instance, …
Water has suddenly become a favoured subject for seminars and conferences all over the world. A common trend in most of the discussions is to proceed from projections of demand to supply-side solutions in the form of ‘water resource development’ projects; estimate the massive investment funds needed; take note of …
The future adequacy of freshwater resources is difficult to assess, owing to a complex and rapidly changing geography of water supply and use. Numerical experiments combining climate model outputs, water budgets, and socioeconomic information along digitized river networks demonstrate that (i) a large proportion of the world's population is currently …
the department of atomic energy's ( dae 's) upcoming Koodankulam Atomic Power Project ( kapp ) at Koodankulam, 25 km north of Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, has run into a controversy. Local residents are complaining that not only will the project aggravate water scarcity in the area but also heightened their …
in the first week of October, the Thol reservoir in the Mehsana district of Gujarat witnessed another episode of human-avian conflict. Thousands of villagers marched to the reservoir and demanded the release of water to save their crops. Faced with the agitated crowd the guards relented. The reservoir was originally …
