Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Akhilesh Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 23/05/2025. The matter related to illegal mining activites carried out by Jai Maa Chandrika Enterprises, Rajendra Nagar, village Kabari, district Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. The applicant also alleged about illegal sale …
As I walk towards the supermarket doors, people stream out, trolleys piled high with five-litre plastic bottles of water—and, fear grips. Am I too late? Reality check: I have not come to buy water. I do not need to buy water. I have about 20 bottles of carefully collected run-off …
The urban voter in Bengaluru was once voiceless, with no say or sway in the poll outcome—blame it on the vote bank’s negligible size and political apathy. But, post the 2008 delimitation of constituencies, when nearby villages and semi-urban areas were merged with the core area and the city scaled …
For the past drought-stricken year, most of the drinking water consumed in Beijing has travelled 1,432km (895 miles), roughly the distance from New York to Orlando, Florida. Its journey begins in a remote and hilly part of central China at the Danjiangkou reservoir, on the bottom of which lies the …
National Register of Large Dam (NRLD) is a compilation of the dams in the country prepared as per information received from the State Government/Authority concerned. In NRLD the definition of “large dams” has been adopted as per the norms of International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD). At present there are …
A non-profit organisation plans to issue a 1.5 billion shilling ($15 million) bond this year to fund Kenyan water utilities. Robert Bunyi, chief Executive Officer of the Kenya Pooled Water Fund, said on Wednesday it aimed to launch a 15-year instrument and to have it certified as a green bond. …
Water use in the City of Cape Town has stabilised at lower levels compared to the beginning of the year, Deputy Mayor Ian Neilson said on Wednesday. The decline saw Cape Town dam levels drop by only 0.3% last week, he said. Dams supplying the city now stand at 21.8%. …
The report is an advocacy piece to raise awareness around the need to shift the typical way urban water has been managed and to share emerging principles and solutions that may improve urban water supply security in water scarce cities. It aims to promote successes, outline challenges and principles, and …
The Gujarat government has asked all district collectors to supply drinking water through tankers anywhere in their territory. The government took the decision as April has arrived and the state is facing a water shortage following the less inflow from river Narmada. The state government, however, claims that no village …
Agra: Major leaks in many as 25 spots on water pipelines result in wastage of thousands of litres of water in the city every day, according to sources in the Jal Sansthan department. By a conservative estimate, at least 50 million liters per day (MLD) of water is wasted due …
BHOPAL: As the city begins to experience sweltering heat in month of March, many areas areas are staring at water crisis. The conventional wisdom dictates drinking water should get top priority as water level in two major sources - Kolar Dam and the Upper Lake- is dipping fast on account …
The drought is about to whack Capetonians in the pocket‚ doubling the price of water in the next two years. The City of Cape Town’s draft budget‚ tabled at Wednesday’s council meeting‚ proposes a 27% rise in water tariffs from July 1. And it will get worse in 2019‚ with …
Capetonians have managed to get water usage down to 522 million litres per day over the past week - 43 million litres less than the previous week's water usage. The City of Cape Town still requires Capetonians to reduce collective usage to 450 million litres per day or 50l per …
Since March 15, Gujarat farmers have not been given access to Narmada waters for agricultural purposes. Security personnel have been deployed along the main canal of the Sardar Sarovar Dam at Kevadia to ensure that farmers do not illegally draw water. From a high of 130.75 metres on September 25, …
The present level in the Singur dam is 1702.347 ft and the water is at 11.367 TMC. 18 MGD is being drawn. Hyderabad: There will be a severe drinking water crisis from April to July this year in the twin cities and surrounding areas, if the water board’s assessment is …
AHMEDABAD: Even if Amdavadis think they understand the value of money, they surely do not value precious water despite living in a water-scarce state. A recent Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) study has revealed that an average Amdavadi consumes 260-280 litres a day against the supposed 143 to 171 litres a …
The World Bank said on Tuesday Tanzania lagged behind in expanding and sustaining basic water supply, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) coverage. “More than 23 million citizens retrieve drinking water from unimproved sources, and 41 million people use unimproved sanitation facilities,” said the World Bank in a report launched in the …
JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia has joined a UN-sponsored international decade to safeguard and improve the world’s water supplies. The “Action Water for Sustainable Development” decade was adopted by the General Assembly in December 2016 and begins this year. It will help focus attention on global water security during the next 10 …
Afghanistan’s water crisis is one of the acutest in Asia. Less than a third of the country's population has access to clean drinking water. Thousands of children are dying each year because of contamination and poor sanitation. The Hindu Kush mountain range, which has long been Afghanistan's main source of …
The world is facing a water crisis, highlighting a big gap in access to clean water and sanitation between the wealthy and economically disadvantaged, according to a WaterAid study. Entitled The Water Gap - The State of the World's Water, the water access advocacy group's report was released on Thursday …
Aminu Dayyabu, Executive Director, Katsina State Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency (RUWASSA), says 1.3 million people have gained access to clean water between 2015 and March 2018 in the state. He said this in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Katsina. He said that …
