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 …
One of the key threats to the upper Ganga and other Himalayan rivers is water abstraction for hydropower, irrigation, urban and industrial needs. To address this, the concept of ‘minimum flows’ has recently been proposed and is being implemented in some river basins. However, this is still not based on …
Since 1991, UNDP-GEF’s International Waters Programme has been supporting over one hundred countries that share some of the world’s largest and most important aquatic ecosystems to work cooperatively in addressing the agreed priority environmental and water resource concerns facing such waterbodies. International Waters – Delivering Results is the fourth in …
The idea of a Water Poverty Index (WPI) with a numerical value was formulated by scientists in an effort to express the complex relationship between sustainable water resource management and poverty at all units of human organization, all the way from community to nation. The numerical values generated for the …
New Delhi: Concerned about the inability of the National Ganga River Basin Authority’s limited control over how states manage the river stretches in their domain, the Centre is preparing a law that will set up a National Ganga Basin Authority along the lines of the National Commission for Women and …
On the face of it, the Union petroleum ministry has finally taken some action in its slow-fuse battle with Reliance Industries over the D6 block in the Krishna-Godavari basin. A long legal arbitration duel between the two parties seems inevitable (over Reliance’s failure to deliver the promised quantum of gas …
NEW DELHI: Reliance Industries has reported that natural gas production from its eastern offshore KG-D6 fields has dropped to about 32.66 million standard cubic meters per day. Gas output from KG-D6 in the week ended May 6 dropped to 32.66 mmscmd from 33.89 mmscmd in April, according to a status …
The Coordination of Democratic Rights Organisation, comprising 20 civil and democratic rights organisations from across India, decided to undertake a fact finding of the impact of big/mega dam projects coming up in the north-eastern states on the life and livelihood of the people. It has been reported that more than …
Analysing the state of rivers in India in the context of legal and institutional issues has a huge canvas. The paper starts with the definition of a river. It then goes on to describe the existing legal and institutional measures that affect the state of rivers in India. There are …
Seeks appointment of arbitrator on behalf of oilmin to settle dispute OUR BUREAU NEW DELHI Reliance Industries has sought the Supreme Court’s intervention to help start arbitration with the oil ministry over recovering its investment in the D6 block from gas sales, ruling out amicable resolution of its dispute with …
Having failed to get a response from the ministry of petroleum and natural gas for nearly five months, Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) on Wednesday filed a plea in the Supreme Court to seek the appointment of an arbitrator in its dispute over the D6 block in the Krishna-Godavari basin. According …
NEW DELHI: The UPA narrowly escaped another 'Team Anna moment' at the Prime Minister-chaired National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) meeting on Tuesday, with CMs Nitish Kumar and Akhilesh Yadav coming in handy to counter the agitated civil society representatives, who were demanding immediate closure of hydroelectric projects on tributaries …
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna said that hydropower projects, which had already obtained clearance from the Union Ministry of Environment & Forest, should not be barred from other technical clearance just for a mere perceived feelings of some people. CM Bahuguna, speaking at a meeting of National Ganga River Basin …
New Delhi: CPM member Prasanta Chatterjee asked Comptroller and Auditor General Vinod Rai on Tuesday whether the auditor could quantify the loss to the government on account of conditions of the production contract for KG gas not being adhered to. While an agency report said Congress member Saifuddin Soz also …
Prepared by the Wildlife Institute of India (WII), the report flashes a red light with regard to the hydroelectric projects that add up to 2,600 MW and make for about a tenth of all small and big dams on the anvil in the state. NEW DELHI: A report commissioned by …
Indian water policies have adopted the current water management paradigms like Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) and Integrated River Basin Management (IRBM) as early as 1987 and in 2002 mainly to cope with growing challenges of water sector as a result of economic growth, burgeoning population and limited water resources. …
Water is the primary medium through which climate change influences the Earth’s ecosystems and therefore people’s livelihoods and wellbeing. Besides climatic change, current demographic trends, economic development and related land use changes have direct impact on increasing demand for freshwater resources. Taken together, the net effect of these supply and …
This assessment of cumulative impacts of hydroelectric projects in Alaknanda and Bhagirathi river basins in Uttarakhand. It takes into account impact of 70 Hydro Electric Projects of which 17 are existing, 14 are under-construction and 39 are proposed. The broad objectives this study are: To assess the baseline status of …
The WEPA Outlook is the flagship publication of WEPA which includes basic information on the water environment and its management in each WEPA partner country. The Outlook 2012 consists of three main chapters. Chapter 1 presents the result of the analysis of institutional frameworks for water environmental management in each …
Magsaysay award-winner ‘Waterman’ Rajendra Singh, who stepped down from National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) along with two others protesting government’s “negligence” of the river, on Sunday criticised the Prime Minister for “not understanding his responsibility” towards the river as head of the body. Singh, addressing a press conference, said …
This study reviews the experience of cooperation in selected international river basins and during selected time periods in those basins. The review is from a country perspective and focuses on the countries’ perceived risks and opportunities in engaging in regional cooperation deals in response to the prospects for cooperation. It …
