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 …
Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) should be organized on the relevant scale of the basins of rivers, lakes and aquifers, especially when they are transboundary. But significant progress should be made to move from theory to practice and take concrete action for transboundary cooperation on water wherever necessary, regarding surface …
A new exploratory report, Land acquisitions: How will they impact transboundary waters? investigates how the current surge in land acquisitions and investments by foreign countries, sovereign wealth funds, private corporations and domestic investors will affect transboundary water management. an area where current knowledge is sparse. According to the report, the …
Integrated Hydrological Data Book is a compendium of important hydrological information on major basins consolidated at the national level. This present issue of the data book provides updated basin/site-wise data for 12 non-classified basins covering aspects such as location, drainage area, population, temperature, average runoff, seasonal water flow, historical water …
This document contains the presentation by Partha J Das of Aaranyak, Guwahati (Assam) on "Green clearance to HEPs in NE India: Issues and concerns", at the Anil Agarwal Dialogues on green clearances organised by CSE at New Delhi during February 24 - 25, 2012.
KOLKATA, 22 FEB: A notice was directed to be sent by the Division Bench of Mr Justice Pinaki Ghosh and Mr Justice Mrinalkanti Choudhury to National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) headed by Prime Minister, Mr Manmohan Singh, to take steps for the better upkeep of the river within three …
An Act to provide for water rights and obligations; conservation, control, management and use of water resources and supply; constitution of water and sewerage authorities; facilitate devolution and decentralization of management; elicit public and private participation; the provision of safe water, sewerage services, the regulation thereof and for matters connected …
Anil Ambani’s Reliance Power is hopeful the government will allocate natural gas to operate its new 2,400-mw plant in Andhra Pradesh, where shortterm electricity prices have jumped to . 19 per unit, more than three times the national average, because of soaring demand and inadequate transmission network. An empowered group …
Freshwater scarcity is a growing concern, placing considerable importance on the accuracy of indicators used to characterize and map water scarcity worldwide. We improve upon past efforts by using estimates of blue water footprints (consumptive use of ground- and surface water flows) rather than water withdrawals, accounting for the flows …
During the next 10 years, many countries important to the United States will experience water problems—shortages, poor water quality, or floods—that will risk instability and state failure, increase regional tensions, and distract them from working with the United States on important US policy objectives. Between now and 2040, fresh water …
Agricultural expansion and climate variability have become important agents of disturbance in the Amazon basin. Recent studies have demonstrated considerable resilience of Amazonian forests to moderate annual drought, but they also show that interactions between deforestation, fire and drought potentially lead to losses of carbon storage and changes in regional …
The regulatory panel overseeing the performance of Reliance Industries’ prestigious D6 block in the Krishna Godavari basin on Tuesday approved the company’s plan to develop four satellite fields at an estimated cost of $1.5 billion. The oil and gas major is keen to develop the fields around their producing D1 …
New Delhi: State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) plans to invest $2.89 billion (about Rs 15,340 crore) in developing its ultra-deepsea UD-1 gas discovery in the Krishna Godavari basin by 2016-17. ONGC believes that UD-1 gas discovery in the southern part of its Block KGDWN-98/2 can produce for 14-15 …
The Supreme Court of India has in its judgement of 27 February 2012 on the interlinking of rivers project, given categorical directions to the Executive Government to implement the 'project' as a whole in a time bound manner and has also asked the Centre to appoint a Special Committee to …
Drainage characteristics of a river basin reflect its hydrologic behavior and area useful when quantified in evaluating the hydrologic response of the basin. The Sur river basin is a fifth order basin. The basin shape parameters are not within the standard values given for a good and ideal basin.
An Act to provide a broad overarching national legal framework of general principles on water as a vital and stressed natural resource, under which legislation and executive action on water at all levels of governance, as also water-use and actions relating to water by citizens, their associations and voluntary agencies, …
WWF-India released a comprehensive report on the Environmental Flow (E-flows) requirement of the river Ganga, Titled “Assessment of Environmental Flows for the Upper Ganga”. In 2008, a team from WWF, along with key partners and experts initiated the task of examining and adapting existing global E-Flow methodologies to develop an …
Has deferred decision on the critical issue of allowing the company to fully recover previous costs The oil ministry plans to impose cost limits on the development of new KG Basin gas fields by Reliance Industries, and has deferred its decision on the critical issue of allowing the company to …
Despite a meeting of more than three hours on Friday, the management committee overseeing Reliance Industries Ltd's KG-D6 gas block in the Krishna-Godavari basin did not approve commercialisation of four more of its discoveries in the same area. A source said the meeting ended without any decision on the issue. …
Reliance Industries (RIL) has told the government that already declining production at its trophy asset, the D6 block in offshore Andhra Pradesh, could plummet drastically if its investment plans are not approved forthwith. Senior RIL officials led by Chairman Mukesh Ambani have met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister …
The Dibru river basin of Assam is investigated to examine the influence of active structure by applying an integrated study on geomorphology, morphotectonics, subsurface structure, Digital Elevation Model (DEM) using topographic map, IRS 1D LISS III, IRS P6 LISS III, SRTM, seismic and subsurface data.
