Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zone Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Gaurav Jain Vs State of Madhya Pradesh & Others dated 27/02/2024. The matter related to non-forest activities and non-compliances of environment clearance and forest clearance conditions by Larsen & Toubro Limited along with Narmada Valley Development …
Aurangabad: The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay high court on Monday questioned the Aurangabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) when it would place before the general body the state government letter asking it to take appropriate action against the private partner in the Rs 792-crore parallel water supply scheme. The public interest …
Lucknow: A couple of hours after Union minister of water resources Uma Bharti accused UP's urban development ministry of stalling NOC for Vrindavan-Mathura stretch of Ganga, a press communique from CM office quoting chief minister Akhilesh Yadav said that UP government was determined to clean Ganga and its tributaries. Akhilesh …
Parts of India are being parched by a drought that means farmers are unable to irrigate their fields, with some areas even running out of drinking water No one in the slum of Murtinagar wants to play with Temri and Chinna. The brother and sister don’t speak the local Hindi …
Recycling and reuse of treated wastewater are an important part of the sanitation cycle and critical in an environment such as urban India with decreasing freshwater availability and increasing costs for delivering acceptable quality water, often from far distance. This report has been developed as a possible guidance document for …
NEW DELHI: The Centre is planning to take the legislative route on conservation and distribution of water by giving precedence to drinking water supply over allocation for agricultural and industrial purposes in the country. Under the plan, the water resources ministry will come out with a draft National Water Framework …
Estimating the exposure of agriculture to climate variability and change can help us understand key vulnerabilities and improve adaptive capacity, which is vital to secure and increase world food production to feed its growing population. A number of indices to estimate exposure are available in literature. However, testing or validating …
Rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations are expected to enhance photosynthesis and reduce crop water use. However, there is high uncertainty about the global implications of these effects for future crop production and agricultural water requirements under climate change. Here we combine results from networks of field experiments and global crop models …
Punjab govt on Monday claimed in Supreme Court that it was being “unfairly treated” on the issue of water sharing and sought the setting up of a fresh tribunal to resolve its disputes on the Satluj-Yamuna Link Canal with other States. “Throughout the course of history, it is Punjab which …
Punjab Government on Thursday banned the harvesting of Rabi crop with combines from 7pm to 10am so that the crops don't absorb moisture at night and remain dry for sale. An official spokesperson of the agriculture department said that the harvesting of crop has been banned during night so that …
The sustainability of future water resources is of paramount importance and is affected by many factors, including population, wealth and climate. Inherent in current methods to estimate these factors in the future is the uncertainty of their prediction. In this study, we integrate a large ensemble of scenarios—internally consistent across …
Maputo — Water shortages in the drought-stricken southern Mozambican province of Gaza have become critical, and the southern regional water board (ARA-Sul) has been forced to halt discharges from the Massingir dam. The dam, built in the early 1970s, is on the Elephants river, the largest tributary of the Limpopo. …
It is not only just the Ulsoor Lake which is polluted. According to a report released by Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) of the 75 lakes, studied in the City, 35 fall under E-Category, which means, the water is not fit for consumption, bathing and for animals. Following the …
At a time when uncertain monsoonal rain is upsetting farmers’ annual crop plan, significant drop in live storage capacity of Odisha’s major and medium reservoirs seems to have made the matters worse. Odisha’s live storage (LS) capacity has dropped alarmingly by about 21 per cent during the past 10 years. …
Outlay in tune with Chief Minister Chandrasekhar Rao’s repeated assertions In sharp contrast to previous years, when non-plan expenditure used to be higher than plan expenditure, Telangana Finance Minister Etela Rajender on Monday presented the third budget with an outlay of nearly Rs. 1.30 lakh crore for 2016-17, with a …
Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) chief Capt Amarinder Singh today sought the setting up of a fresh tribunal to ascertain the exact volume of river waters. Speaking on the party’s stand on river water sharing, the PPCC chief said the total water was initially estimated at 17 MAF (million acre …
Bengaluru and Mysuru are in for difficult days ahead: drinking water stocks will last for just 60 days. A failed monsoon has brought down the water levels at the Kabini reservoir to less than 6.4 tmc ft. This is the main source of drinking water for Bengaluru, Chamrajanagar, Kollegal, parts …
The Government will build four big dams in Embu County, in a bid to boost access to drinking and irrigation water in four counties. Water Cabinet Secretary Eugene Wamalwa said the government had already advertised tenders for three major dams, Rupingazi, which will serve Mbeere South, Thambana, which will irrigate …
KCR to sign agreements on construction of five barrages across the river Godavari and its tributaries The people of Telangana will have one more long-lasting reason to celebrate March 8 in the years to come in addition to it being the International Women’s Day as the State is slated to …
While acknowledging implementation of 89 irrigation projects under AIBP, which have been languishing for years, Jaitley in his Budget speech had said, “we will ensure that 23 of these projects are completed before March 31, 2017”. While acknowledging implementation of 89 irrigation projects under AIBP, which have been languishing for …