Haryana water
The Haryana Government has agreed to supply more raw water to Delhi. Haryana will supply 70 cusecs of raw water for the Nanglio water treatment plant. Delhi Chief Minister Sahib Singh Verma said.
Goa not to allow Mahadayi diversion
Goa Chief Minister Wilfred De Souza said his govenment would not allow any diversion of water from the Mahadayi river by the Karnataka government into the Malaprabha basin for its proposed hydel power project as such a move would dry up the Zurai and Mandovi river basins in Goa resulting …
Scheme for registration of tubewells evokes poor response
Only about 10,000 tubewells of the lakhs estimated to have been dug in the city have, so far, been registered with the govenrment. Ultimately, says the Central Ground Water Authority, the registering authority, penal action will be taken against those who do not register tubewells.
PM dispels doubts over Cauvery accord
"I would like to assure the people of Tamil Nadu that their interests have been fully safeguarded while drawing up the Cauvery agreement. People should not have any misgivings on this count", the Prime Minister, Mr. A.B. Vajpayee, said today. He was responding to a question at a press conference …
Muddled judgement on Marsyangdi
Often it is the government which is chastised for not following the procurement guidelines and the terms and the conditions of the donor agencies. But what does one say when the donor agency itself not follows its own guidelines. This is exactly what happened in the evaluation and award of …
Local body hydel project awaits legal sanction
The Meenvallom small hydel power project in Palakkad, a power generation project proposed to be taken up by a local body in the country, is languishing for want of legal sanction, six months after the Palakkad District Panchayat approached the registrar of Company Affairs for floating a company for the …
Small hydel project sites in 25 states identified
Major hydel projects entail large-scale ecological disaster and human displacement . For regional and remote area development, the ministry of non-conventional energy sources (MNES) is promoting small hydro projects (SHP) of up to three mw. The ministry has conducted a nation-wide survey state-wise and has identified a total potential for …
Drought
The Rajasthan Cabinet constituted a five-member Cabinet sub-committee to suggest measures to resolve the drinking water and drought problems prevailing in parts of the state.
Medha angry over Centre's stand
The Central government had no business to scuttle the visit of the World Commission on Dams when the Madhya Pradesh Government had no objections since the proposed public hearing was to be held in Bhopal, said Ms Medha Patkar, leader of the Narmada Bachao Andolan and one of the 12 …
Decision to stop entry of dams panel defended
The Madhya Pradesh unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party has strongly defended the Centre's decision to stop the visit of World Commission on Dams, saying it was against interference by any so-called independent agencies in the country's development plans.
Landslide damages drinking water projects
Landslide has swept away a drinking water construction site in the Jante VDC of Morang district of Nepal because of the flooded Teliya Khola. A total of 864 families of ward Nos 1,2,8 and 9 have been facing acute shortage of drinking water after the drinking water project site was …
Mullaperiyar dam
Technical committees to be set up : Kerala and Tamil Nadu have decided to undertake a technical evaluation of the safety of the century old Mullaperiyar dam. At a ministerial level meeting held in Thiruvanathapuram, the two sides, however, differed on what should be the level of the storage in …
Unicef warns of water crisis
A Unicef-World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) combined study has warned of a serious water crisis in India. The consequences would be more health problems for the people and more shortage of quality warer for agriculture and industries. The study has found that no less than 44 million people in …
Plan panel for raising water tariff
The Planning Commission has come up with a proposal to increase water charges for all categories of consumers, including irrigation charges for farmers. The proposal for "rationalising" the pricing of water for various uses, including agriculture, forms part of the special action plan to implement the National Water Policy drawn …
9 MW hydro power project across Harangi planned
Energy Development Company Limited (EDCL) is setting up a 9 MW hydro-power project at a cost of Rs 44.50 crore at Harangi dam with an engineering procurement and consturction (EPC) contract with Sulzer Flovel Ltd.
Sydney water'lethal' to the weak
Sydney's water is so potentially dangerous for people at high risk from cryptosporidium that health officials should issue a permanent 'boil water' alert for them until further notice, the inquiry into the crisis has been told. Sydney Water's inability to warn such people before the infectious parasite enters the city's …
Indian named world water commission member
Indian environmentalist Anil Agarwal, the director of the New Delhi based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), has been appointed a member of the World Commission on Water, which will prepare a long term programme to address the impending water crisis in the 21st century. The World Water Council (WWC), …
