Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
Ground water utilization has increased significantly during the last two decades. The unplanned and indiscriminate use of this vital resource has resulted in declining water levels and water quality deterioration in certain areas. The apparent stress on ground water resources is more often a management issue, and this needs to …
A serious lack of reliable and consistent data severely hampers scientific knowledge about the state of Himalayan glaciers. As a result, the contribution of glacial melt to the Himalayan river basins remains uncertain. This is of grave importance because declining water availability could threaten the food security of more than …
Corporate Water Disclosure Guidelines – provides the first ever common approach to corporate water disclosure. Companies are fundamentally changing the way they address water. Increasingly, they are investing in water-efficient technologies, working with suppliers to encourage more responsible water use, introducing cleaner and more efficient products, and seeking to advance …
Glaciers are among the best indicators of terrestrial climate variability, contribute importantly to water resources in many mountainous regions and are a major contributor to global sea level rise. In the Hindu Kush–Karakoram–Himalaya region (HKKH), a paucity of appropriate glacier data has prevented a comprehensive assessment of current regional mass …
Two faces known for supporting mining & hydel power inducted in Forest Advisory Committee The environment and forests ministry has reconstituted the statutory advisory body for clearing use of forestland for non-forest purposes. It has inducted two members known for supporting mining and hydropower businesses. While the government has sent …
Panel Gives Conditional Approval For D6 Block, Gas Output Set To Rise New Delhi: The oversight panel for India’s showcase gas field off the Andhra coast gave Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries (RIL) and BP Plc permission to pump over $1 billion into the flagging field, but with the rider that …
Economic and social development has greatly increased ecological water demand and modified land use of river systems worldwide, causing overall degradation of many of these systems. In this study, theoretical and technical frameworks for regionalization on the eco-environmental function of river systems are formulated and applied to the Luanhe River …
The prediction of climate effects on terrestrial ecosystems and water resources is one of the major research questions in hydrology. Conceptual water-energy balance models can be used to gain a first order estimate of how long-term average streamflow is changing with a change in water and energy supply. A common …
The AQUASTAT Programme was initiated with a view to presenting a comprehensive picture of water resources and irrigation in the countries of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean and providing systematic, up-to-date and reliable information on water for agriculture and rural development. This report presents the results of the …
National Register of Large Dam (NRLD) is a compilation of the large dams in the country prepared as per information received from the owners of the dams. In NRLD the definition of “large dams” has been adopted as per the norms of International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD). At present …
Co hopes to finalise equity deal by this month-end for its KG block that lies next to RIL’s D6 field The country’s largest staterun energy explorer Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) is betting big on its gas acreages in the Krishna-Godavri basin, Daman and the Mahanadi basin, and is …
AG: Public Trust Doctrine For Gas Creates Confusion New Delhi: While seeking to overcome the ‘auction for all natural resources’ law laid down by the 2G judgment, the Centre wants clarification of an important conclusion in the Reliance judgment. The Supreme Court in 2010 had ruled in favour of Mukesh …
AG: Public Trust Doctrine For Gas Creates Confusion New Delhi: While seeking to overcome the ‘auction for all natural resources’ law laid down by the 2G judgment, the Centre wants clarification of an important conclusion in the Reliance judgment. The Supreme Court in 2010 had ruled in favour of Mukesh …
The petroleum ministry on Tuesday promised expeditious clearances to a proposal made by Mukesh Ambani-run Reliance Industries (RIL) and partner BP India to make fresh investments at four blocks at its KG-D6 gas field. The move comes amid RIL’s legal battle with the government over the latter disallowing the desired …
Protected Landscapes are a strong option for biodiversity conservation in human-influenced landscapes and seascapes. They often contain threatened or endemic species. There is now also a growing interest in the nature conservation benefits of protected landscapes. But do protected landscapes really protect wild biodiversity? The case studies collected here launch …
The erratic power supply that has been troubling the city this summer will improve as gas to feed the new Bawana power plant could be available soon, said Power officials. The Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has finally agreed to feed the plant that was built at a cost of nearly …
Caught in a controversy over the purity and sanctity of the Ganga, threatened supposedly by hydroelectric projects, the government has formed a high-level expert committee under Planning Commission Member B K Chaturvedi to look into the technical reports on the subject and come out with findings in three months. The …
New Delhi: Even as the coalgate controversy rages, the UPA government could be staring at another damaging report from its official auditor, the Comptroller and Auditor General, as it has started its second audit of four oil and gas blocks and may come up with the final report by the …
Being the highest specific discharge river system in the world, the Brahmaputra river experiences a number of long-duration flood waves during the monsoon season annually. In order to assess the flood characteristics at the basin and tributary scales, a physically based macro-scale distributed hydrological model (DHM) has been calibrated and …
Auditor Gives Point-By-Point Rebuttal On Reliance’s Claims Of Lack Of Expertise The Comptroller and Auditor General of India has offered a strong rebuttal of Reliance Industries Limited’s criticism that the auditor excluded its responses in the KG basin report, asserting that the firm got a fair hearing and the production …
