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 …
Minister for Water and Irrigation Eng Gerson Lwenge has tabled a Sh672 billion budget estimates for 2017/18 fiscal year in Dodoma on Wednesday. He said that up to March 2017, about 22.9 million people in the country, equivalent to 72.5% of rural dwellers are accessing clean and safe water within …
Residents of Willowfountain in Pietermaritzburg are still fetching dirty water from the river in spite of the installation of a new reservoir in March. Communal taps in KwaPhupha in Willowfountain ran dry in February last year and in spite of the construction of a new reservoir, the water supply has …
Residents of Willowfountain in Pietermaritzburg are still fetching dirty water from the river in spite of the installation of a new reservoir in March. Communal taps in KwaPhupha in Willowfountain ran dry in February last year and in spite of the construction of a new reservoir, the water supply has …
More than 450,000 people in West Pokot County will benefit from clean water after the completion of the Muruny-Siyoi Water Dam and Supply Project, which is under construction. Work on the project, which started in March 2015, will be completed in 10 months. The dam is being built in the …
The newly elected Rotary governor for Uganda and Tanzania has outlined his work plan singling out environmental conservation as the key priority as he begins his term of office. Mr Kenneth Wycliffe Mugisha, who was installed in Arusha, Tanzania at the weekend, said during 2017/2018, Rotarians will plant about 2.5million …
Cape Town's collective dam quantities are bordering on emergency level as the city council ponders raising water restrictions from Level 3b to Level 4 from the beginning of next month. The municipality has around only 12% of usable water left in its dams amid diminishing quantities. Mayco member for water …
Abuja, Kaduna and Enugu — A Daily Trust independent water investigation reveals germs which are harmful to human health. Water samples obtained from different locations in Abuja, Lagos and Kaduna indicated the presence of microbiological organisms that exceeded the maximum permissible level by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the …
Abu Jubaiha / Sennar / Khartoum — Residents of four villages in Abu Jubaiha in South Kordofan are facing a severe drinking water crisis. People in eastern Sudan's Sennar and El Gedaref are complaining about thirst as well. Khartoum plans to significantly improve the water supply in Red Sea state …
Tanga — Environmental degradation, including illegal alluvial gold mining and farming in steep slopes and on river banks in the East Usambara Mountains, are destroying water sources for over 300,000 Tanga City residents. The Tanga Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Authority (Tanga Uwasa) says it loses a total of Sh15 …
THE Vice-President, Ms Samia Suluhu Hassan, yesterday launched a large scale water project that will benefit 42,000 residents of seven districts in Tabora Region. The Project worth 28bn/- has been implemented by Japanese government through Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in collaboration with Tanzanian government. Speaking at the launch of …
Panaji: The high court of Bombay at Goa directed the state government on Thursday to consider providing potable water to residents of Sonshi and to ensure that the dust pollution in the village is under control. Hearing a suo motu petition on pollution in Sonshi, the high court also said …
A dam being built on the edge of Kenya's largest water catchment is drawing criticism from experts who fear it could threaten water supplies in the country as much as supplement them. The Itare Dam will be the largest water supply project in the southern Rift Valley, and is intended …
Seven-hundred young people who were sickened by tainted tap water in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan 16 years ago will collect government compensation, the provincial government said on Wednesday. Between 6,000 and 7,000 people became ill in 2001 after a parasite entered the drinking water system in North Battleford, a …
The High Court in Zomba has rejected granting of an injunction to halt the Lake Malawi water supply project being done by Khato Civils on behalf of the Lilongwe Water Board (LWB). The application was done by Malawi Law Society (MLS) after showing signs of discontent with the way the …
Climate change threatens to increase instability around the world as jihadist groups such as Islamic State and Boko Haram exploit a scarcity of water, food and land to control populations and boost recruitment, a Berlin-based thinktank said on Thursday. Countries already experiencing unrest or negative effects of climate change were …
Eng Isack Kamwelwe said the ministry has already embarked on modalities to establish the water agency which would operate in rural areas to hasten government efforts in providing clean and safe water to rural people. Eng Kamwelwe was responding to a supplementary question from David Silinde (Momba – Chadema) who …
BENGALURU: More than 12 lakh residents in and around Mahadevapura, Dasarahalli, Bommanahalli, Raja Rajeshwari Nagar and Byatarayanapura will get Cauvery drinking water to their homes under the 5th stage of the Cauvery water supply scheme. It will benefit thousands of families living in 110 villages which were merged into Bengaluru …
Armed with a hoe and Wellington boots, George Wandera planted bamboo seedlings in neatly dug holes along the banks of a stream on his farm that feeds a nearby lake in western Kenya. "I've never tried this on my farm before but it's the first step in protecting the stream," …
Murang’a town residents will benefit from a Sh3 billion water storage programme to be initiated by Murang’a Water and Sanitation Company. The water company has said it is planning to build a mega dam near the Aberdare Forest to harvest rainwater. MD Daniel Ng’ang’a said together with its partners, the …
Tankers come back to quench thirst; Collectors worry over worse. The panchayat raj and rural development department, which manages rural water supply, has sought Rs 400 crore in contingency relief to supply water to villages through tankers and to repair wells and bore wells. Hyderabad: The drinking water crisis has …
