Centre seeks legal opinion on scheme
The Centre referred the Cauvery scheme for implementation of the interim award of the Tribunal, to legal experts for an opinion on whether it should be notified before the Supreme Court hearing on Aug 12, or be submitted in the court.
Breakthrough
The broad accord on the implementaion of the Cuvery's Tribunal's interim award, reached between the Chief Ministers of four basin states last weekend with the Prime Minister's intervention, marks a breakthrough in a dispute that has defied solution for over 80 years. The pact pertains essentially to an arrangement to …
Narmada oustees protest relief plan
The revised relief and rehabilitation policy for people affected by Narmada projects, approved by the State Cabinet in July, has actually added to oustees' fears with rehabilitation centres planned where there is no agricultural land available. A large number of people who will be affected in Dhar district today held …
India had cleared dam team's visit, says world body
The World Commission on Dams (WCD) has clarified its visit to Delhi and Bhopal later this month was planned in "full consultation" with Indian authorities. In a press note yesterday,WCD Secretary-General Achim Steiner said the Commission had obtained approval from the Indian High Commissioner in South Africa, the Planning Commission …
Cauvery panel to meet soon
The first meeting of the Cauvery River Valley Authority to frame the rules and regulations for its functioning is likely to be held soon in Delhi, according to the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Mr M Karunanidhi.
World Commission on dams cancels visit to Gujarat
The 12-member team of the World Commission on Dams (WCD) , which was to visit Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat to examine the controversial narmada project later this month, has cancelled its proposed visit to the Sardar Sarovar project area in Gujarat. The chairman of WCD and minister of water affairs …
Govt to push hydel projects
Faced with severe energy shortage, the government is pressing ahead with 12 major hydro power projects in a bid to speed up generation of electricity from water. The projects are all scheduled to be completed by 2002, the end of the current five-year-plan period.
Krishna project will 'fragment' forest
The proposed Krishna Khore irrigation project in Maharashtra, aimed at bringing relief to farmers in the drought-prone parts of Solarpur district, will cause extensive damaged to the ecology of the area, environmentalists said. The survey was conducted by wildlife scientists from the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) and the Centre …
New captive and hydel policy in the offing
Kumaramangalam: The Union Power Ministry will shortly announce a new captive and hydel policy for facilitating easy construction of such power projects in the country.
Disturbing report
The report on apparent contamination of drinking water in six wells of Mandya town is very disturbing and cause for much concern. The report, based on a paper prepared by Bangalore University's Department of Civil Engineering, says that water taken from six wells in two areas of Mandya town was …
AP to harness rain to meet water crisis
Seriously concerned over the rapid depletion of the ground water-table, the state government has come up with a plan of harvesting rain water through a large number of pits and tanks at a number of public places as well as houses and residential complexes.
Water authority plays it safe on danger bugs
Melbourne Water has confirmed that it tests reservoirs for contamination every month, including checks for the giardia and cryptosporidium parasites that have crippled Sydney's supply for a month. This counters statements made yesterday by the New South Wales Urban Affairs Minister, Mr Craig Knowles, that Sydney's problems had come to …
Govt plans big thrust on hydel power projects
Faced with energy shortage, the government is pressing ahead with 12 major hydel projects. The projects are all scheduled to be completed by 2002.The National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC), which will execute five projects - three in Himachal Pradesh and one each in Manipur and Sikkim - has invited global …
Conflict over water cess
The long-running water cess controversy may snowball into a major conflagration with the Central Government on the one side and the Himachal, Punjab and Haryana regimes on the other. The latest move on the part of the Punjab and Haryana Governments, where the BJP is a coalition partner, to pressurise …
Two hydro-electric power projects approved
The Ministry of Power has given the go-ahead to two hydro-electric power projects with an initial allocation of Rs 33.54 crores as budgetary support for the power plants. The projects given the clearance include the 710-MW Koel Karo project in Bihar and the 90-MW Loktak downstream project in Manipur.
Kashubhai warns dam inspection team may be held
Gujarat Chief Minister Keshubhai Patel has warned that the State Government might be forced to take the team from the World Commission on Dams (WCD) into custody if its visit creates law and order problem.Addressing businessmen, farmers and educationists at a session convened by the Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and …
New norms for rural drinking water projects
The Ministry of Rural Areas and Employment has issued new guidelines for submission projects under the Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission (RGNDWM) seeking to speed up the provision of sustainable safe drinking water to the entire rural population.
New irrigation project planned
While the Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) canal still remains an abandoned child, Punjab has conceived the Dasmesh irrigation project. This is not entirely a new conception. It is a revised, renamed and updated version of state-III of the SYL project. Due to militant activities, the work on the SYL project stopped …
Water treatment plants for affected areas
The West Bengal state government today decided to explore possibilities of recycling stagnant flood waters in Malda and Murshidabad to cope with the drinking water crisis in the two districts. Public health engineering and housing minister Goutam Deb said among several other measures to maintain sufficient supply of drinking water …
