- ABB set to defend dams
Goran Lindahl, chief executive of ABB, the international engineering group, is expected to try to counter the growing criticism of his strategy to chasing big low margin hydro-electric dam contracts when the ABB holds its annual press conference.
- Plan panel suggests measures to tone up rural water supply schemes
The Planning Commission is "alarmed" that over 65,000 villages in the country do not have access to safe public source of drinking water, and has called upon the Ministry of Rural Areas & Employment to ensure better coverage. In its latest evaluation of rural water supply schemes, it has pointed …
TNEB approaches varsity on desilting Pillur dam
The Tamil Nadu Electricity Board(TNEB) has approached the Anna University to undertake a study on desilting the Pillur hydro-electric dam. Located in the Nilgiris district, the dam is one of the Kundah group of reservoirs, having a capacity of two 50-MW units.Siltation is so much in the dam that it …
- Wullar lake is shrinking
The Wullar Lake, the largest fresh water lake of Asia, is losing its charm and beauty due to pollution and encroachments. Significant ecological changes are threatening its basic function as a reservoir of floods. The lake is shrinking in size. People living along its shore have built bundhs, planted willows …
- 78 MCD tubewells are not working
The city's perennial water shortage notwithstanding, the municipal corporation has allowed 78 fully- constructed tubewells to remain non- functional . MCD's reason: these tubewells have not been provided with electricity connections and so these cannot operate.
- Water may cost more in Delhi
A glass of water will be dearer to Delhi'ites within a few months. As if the cost of electricity was not enough, that of drinking water too is scheduled to undergo a hike with the formation of the Water Board in the Capital.
NGO's review ABB's hydropower strategy
Hydropower has become a high risk-low return industry. This is the conclusion of an independent review of ABB's hydropower strategy which two NGOs, the Berne Declaration and the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, published on Februrary 25. The report recommends that ABB reconsider its involvement in hydropower, and shift its …
Africa needs to focus on water control system, says FAO Director General
The Director of the United Nations Food And Agriculture Organisation(FAO) Dr. Jacques Diouf said that Africa has to understand that water control system, an indispensable factor of any policy that intends to secure self-sufficiency in grain production. During his talks with the Ethiopian President Negasso Gidada, the FAO director said …
- 4 pvt firms awarded small hydel projects
The small hydro-power development programme for the Himalayan region is open to the private sector also. The general impression was that only local bodies, cooperatives, non-government organisations and citizen groups are eligible to take part in the scheme. Global Environmental facility(GEF) India chief Pradeep Monga says private entrepreneurs can also …
- Chilika still a healthy wetland, say experts
Contrary to popular belief, Chilika, Asia's largest brackish water lake, continues to be a biologically healthy wet land. Ornithologist and wildlife experts say that the richness of species and avian diversification are the indexes of a biologically healthy wet land, which Chilika is, not the number of birds visiting per …
- WRO devises new 'rehabilitation' approach
The Water resources Organisation(WRO) of the PWD has devised an approach where those displaced by land acquisition schemes under the water Resources Consolidation Project (WRCP) will participate in the programmes for their own rehabilitation. A consultant has been appointed for helping the Special Land Acquisition and Economic Rehabilitation Officer (SLAERO) …
- 50 pc of water contaminated for drinking purpose
It has been a decade since a major public outcry put the spotlight on Kathmandu's heavily contaminated drinking water. But except for marginal improvement in the quality of tapped water in Kathmandu, the problem today largely remains the same. To be fair,in the intervening years, the government built two scientific …
- Valley of the dammed
After years of gorging on water, southern California is at last being made to live within limits : a report.
- Govt role compounding problems
Guwahati, the once beautiful and now degraded capital city of Assam, is perhaps going to face a distressful rainy season fron now on with some of her localities being inundated afresh. For, some vital areas of one of its major storm water reservoir Sarusola Beel are encroached upon and filled …
Tonle Sap reserve proposed
Cambodia has moved a step closer to protecting the Tonle Sap including Prek Toal with the despatch of documents of UNESCO's Paris headquarters seeking nomination of the lake as Biosphere Reserve. Such recognition of the Tonle Sap by the UNESCO will attract increased international attention and funding, and help the …
- Reservoir blamed for Koyna quakes
While seismologists in general have time and again debated the suspicious role of the Koyna reservoir in the occurrrence of frequent earthquakes in western Maharashtra, results of detailed research work being conducted by the Central Water and Power Research Station, Pune since 1963, clearly establish a strong correlation between the …
- NGO group formed on river water plan
The Ministry of Water Resources has constituted an NGO group for creating public opinion amongst people to convince basin States for agreeing to link peninsular rivers and transfer of water from surplus to deficit areas. This was revealed by the Water Resources Secretary, Mr. Mata Prasad, at the 14th AGM …
Pipeline water for villages
The Ministry of Public Health of Thailand announced the construction of village water pipeline systems worth some two billion baht to cope with the drought expected this summer. Minister Rakkiat Sukthana said the ministry plans to construct 865 village water pipelines, 1,000 artesian wells and 99 water tanks so that …
- Egypt a step nearer to taming the Nine
Egypt has moved a step closer to constructing the world's biggest pumping station, now that a consortium led by Kvaerner of Norway and Hitachi Corporation has won a $434 m contract to build the plant over four years. The Toshka project is the most ambitious being undertaken along the Nile …
