Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …
Puri is a small coastal town of Orissa in India on the Bay of Bengal. The town is famous for Lord Shree Jagannath temple built in 12 th century A.D. Over the years, floating population has been increasing. Tourism is the biggest industry and contributes to economic growth of the …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has pulled up the state government for failing to implement measures to improve the sanitation and sewage management in Pandharpur, a big pilgrim centre. In a strongly worded order passed by the western bench of the tribunal, the court has noted that a working plan …
The Consumer Federation Tamil Nadu (CONFET) adopted a resolution at its general body meeting held here recently urging the authorities “to take penal measures against industries that are indiscriminately exploiting groundwater without permission.” Project coordinator of the forum T. Arulselvam, who chaired the meeting, told The Hindu that the resolution …
Ground water levels are being measured four times a year during Pre Monsoon, March/April/May, August, November and January. The ground water regime monitoring was started in the year 1969 by Central Ground Water Board. At present a network of 19427 observation wells located all over the country are being monitored. …
The High Court on Wednesday directed BBMP to submit a report on the time required to test the borewells in 110 villages within its limit. The Division Bench comprising Chief Justice D H Waghela and Justice B V Nagarathna issued the direction while hearing a suo motu petition initiated based …
Moga district was once declared dark zone of state Heavy rainfall and late sowing of paddy for the past five years has helped reduce the rapid depletion of groundwater in Moga district that was once declared as a dark zone of Punjab by the Central Ground Water Board. From 2001 …
The worst fear of Vellalore residents has turned true as the ground water samples collected from the localities near the municipal corporation's dumpyard has indicated presence of ammonia, phosphate apart from exceeding levels of total dissolved salts and nitrate. Three separate samples had been collected and sent for analysis at …
Locals Say Water Drawn At Jangpura Parking Site Wasted New Delhi: Jangpura’s three-storeyed parking lot, which has already been delayed by three years, is in the centre of a controversy again. The residents have alleged that when the contractor had excavated the place initially, groundwater sprang up and flooded the …
Urbanisation is the predominant global phenomenon of our time. Groundwater is a critical, but unappreciated, resource for urban water supply. It is also a serious and costly hazard to urban infrastructure, and the ‘invisible link’ between many facets of the urbanisation process. Many important cities are located in ‘landscape lows’, …
In forty six wells >150 m deep, from across the arsenic-polluted area of south-central Bangladesh, groundwater composition remained unchanged between 1998 and 2011. No evidence of deteriorating water quality was found in terms of arsenic, iron, manganese, boron, barium or salinity over this period of 13 years. These deep tubewells …
The water quality management is one of the many important environmental issues in India. Increasing demand of water for human consumption, irrigation and industrial activities has impacted the water quality of rivers due to declining flows in rivers and depleting water levels of subsurface resources. Water quality data from 2500 …
A team of experts from the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) conducted a preliminary investigation into groundwater depletion and environmental pollution caused by Emami Paper Mills Ltd here on Saturday. General Secretary of the Centre for Social Justice & Environment (CSJE) Rudra M Biswal had sought a a high-level independent …
A waste audit and a ground water quality check has begun in Fuvahmulah Island yesterday. These surveys are carried out by the Ministry, Environment Protection Agency and with the collaboration from the Atoll Council. Surveys would be carried for five days. These exercises are carried as a part of formulating …
Pit latrines are one of the most common human excreta disposal systems in low-income countries, and their use is on the rise as countries aim to meet the sanitation-related target of the Millennium Development Goals. There is concern, however, that pit latrine discharges of chemical and microbial contaminants to groundwater …
Understanding the immediate need to address the issue of decreasing ground water levels in parts of the district, the Ground Water Department is taking active steps to spread awareness about ground water conservation. The ground water resource estimation committee report prepared by the Ministry of Water Resources jointly by the …
The study area is located in the southwestern part of Bangladesh. Twenty-six groundwater samples were collected from both shallow and deep tube wells ranging in depth from 20 to 60 m. Multivariate statistical analyses including factor analysis, cluster analysis and multidimensional scaling were applied to the hydrogeochemical data. The results …
PANJIM: The main contention of the affidavit filed by the state government before the Supreme Court is that Shah Commission report has erred in its valuation of illegal mining in Goa, putting the blame squarely on the Global Positioning System for inaccurate measurements, thereby justifying the mining carried out earlier. …
The Ministry of Water Resources, Govt. of India constituted a committee under the Chairmanship of Director, NIH, Roorkee, to find the facts about the present state of Unnao’s water bodies / ground water, how much of Unnao’s ground water is affected so far and which particular tanning units are responsible …
As many as 637 cancer cases have been detected in the first two weeks of the month-long door-to-door survey in Mansa district. The development is significant as a month ago, only four cancer cases were detected out of about 27,000 persons who were examined during a two-day mega health camp …
People, technology and alluvial flood plains of North Bihar by: Eklavya Prasad, Megh Pyne Abhiyan at CSE Climate change adaptation workshop: Towards Climate Resilient Communities in South Asia: Emerging Policies and Practices (New Delhi, December 13 - 14, 2012)
