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 …
Groundwater currently provides 98 percent of all the drinking water supply in Bangladesh. Groundwater is found throughout Bangladesh but its quality (that is, arsenic and salinity contamination) and quantity (that is, water storage depletion) vary across hydrological environments, posing unique challenges to certain geographical areas and population groups. Yet, no …
JIND: Residents of 11 villages took out a shirtless march on Monday in Narwana town of district Jind seeking water. They demanded that water be released from Bhakhra canal into the minor canal reaching here and threatened that they would stop railway tracks if their demand was not met soon. …
CSC has inked an MoU with the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) for installing water filtration plants in villages. The government’s rural e-governance initiative — Common Service Centres (CSCs) — will now launch a pilot project to provide clean and safe drinking water in 50 villages, following which it will …
Companies are piloting devices that convert moisture into water Google ‘atmospheric water generators’, or AWG, and you get a range of sites that sell them. Chennai-based start-up VayuJal Technologies has produced four of these AWGs — three of 100 litres a day capacity, and one of 400 litres — on …
Rs. 20 crore has been allocated for supplying water across the State, says TWAD Board managing director The groundwater level has increased from 18.10 metres below ground level (pre-monsoon) to 17.5 metres below ground level (post-monsoon), managing director of Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage (TWAD) Board C.N. Maheswaran has …
Speaking at the inauguration of a new water treatment plant at Chandrawal, he said 88% of all colonies in Delhi were getting piped water supply — an increase of 30% since AAP came to power in 2015. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Monday said the Delhi government would request more water …
In Delhi Water Supply & Sewage Disposal Undertaking v. State of Haryana (1996), the Supreme Court said, “Water is a gift of nature. Human hand cannot be permitted to convert this bounty into a curse, an oppression.” But human beings have converted water into precisely that in Tamil Nadu, where …
Around 100 hostels in Chennai’s busiest neighbourhoods have stopped operations over the past few days, seemingly contradicting the Tamil Nadu government’s claims that the state capital is not suffering a drinking water shortage. Advertising According to the Chennai Hostel Owners’ Welfare Association, at least 100 hostels owned by their 350 …
Local police stations across Maharashtra have been asked to guard water supply points and tankers after recurrent violence in the drought-hit state resulted in a murder a few weeks ago. Amardeep Rode, a municipal councillor in the Parbhani Municipal Corporation from the Shiv Sena, was hacked to death after he …
Water ATMs will be installed in gram panchayats of the Ladwa Assembly constituency of Kurukshetra district to provide cheap and clean potable water to people. There are 141 gram panchayats in the constituency and all of them would be covered in a phased manner. The resident will be able to …
Eight of the nine major dams in the Marathwada region have gone dry; CM Fadnavis promises action With the arrival of the monsoon getting delayed, Maharashtra’s dams are left with only 6.61% of the total capacity of water. Except for the Konkan division, water availability in the remaining five divisions …
To Reach All Households In Villages By 2024 What Swachh Bharat was for Modi 1.0, an ambitious programme of piped water to all willing households in rural areas might be for Modi 2.0. The government is poised to launch a massive effort to provide piped drinking water with issues of …
Record number of tankers are sole source of water in large parts of state. Behind the crisis, late monsoon following a deficit year, depleting groundwater in 279 talukas, under 10% live storage in 13 key reservoirs. Maharashtra is facing a water emergency of unprecedented proportions. Following years of drought, the …
There is no scarcity of water as the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) is supplying water more than its capacity, said DJB vice-chairman Dinesh Mohaniya. He said the entire country is facing drought-like situation and as the temperature is rising, the demand of water is increasing in Delhi too. The board …
Sporting a floral top, 10-year-old Khushi was rolling a grey-coloured 30-litre plastic barrel filled with water on a narrow lane of Sanjay Colony in south Delhi. The fourth grader kicked repeatedly at the barrel to move it through the lane and used her hands whenever it got stuck. She was …
Given that water is a State subject, it will take the exercise of “cooperative federalism” to achieve the Modi government’s big-ticket agenda of providing piped drinking water to all households by the end of its second term, Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat said on Tuesday. He was speaking to …
To increase piped water coverage from the existing low 18 per cent to 100 per cent coverage by 2024, the Centre has requested all states to adopt an approach similar to the newly-formulated Jal Shakti Ministry that integrates all ministries and bodies dealing with water under one umbrella. The request …
The State of India's Environment 2019 in Figures is an exclusive data-driven analysis of major developmental and environmental sectors. Each and every dataset from this periodic publication can be used by the media to investigate compelling stories, ask better questions to policymakers to drive them to come up with better …
India typically witnesses water scarcity during summer months, but the situation this year is particularly grim in western and southern states Millions of people are desperately awaiting overdue monsoon rains as they struggle to secure drinking water amid a heat wave across India that is rapidly drying up reservoirs and …
PONDA: The authorities looking into the water crisis at OPA dam are now pinning all their hopes on the expected rainfall this monsoon season as they have run out of all other emergency measures. WRD, PWD and other officials are struggling to maintain sufficient water level and while there have …
