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 …
In a bid to meet the growing demand for water supply in the national capital, the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) aims to increase use of recycled water from 25 per cent currently to 40 per cent, which will help meet the purposes of agriculture, horticulture and washing. The DJB produces …
Odisha has declined permission to the proposal of a 54-km link canal for diversion of 85 million cubic metre water from Mahanadi to Tandula dam in neighbouring Chhattisgarh. The State government, in a letter to Central Water Commission, has objected to construction of a series of water reservoirs by Chhattisgarh …
A remarkable feature of nanobubbles (<10–6 m in diameter) is their long lifetime in water. Supplying oxygen-nanobubbles (NBs) to continuously flooded paddy soil may retard the development of reductive conditions, thereby reducing the emission of methane (CH4), a potent greenhouse gas, and dissolution of arsenic, an environmental load. We tested …
Groundwater level in Thadayampatti panchayat of Sedapatti block is set to get a huge boost as the district rural development agency (DRDA) is planning to dig 101 farm ponds over the next four months. Utilising the large workforce of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) at its command, …
More than 450 projects in various sectors are presently being considered by the government for environmental clearance while more than 200 are awaiting forest clearance, Lok Sabha was informed today. "The number of projects under consideration for environmental clearance in the Ministry (of Environment) are 475 and for approval under …
As many as 34,941 solar water pumps have been installed so far in the country as against the 1,38,267 sanctioned , Parliament was informed today. "A total of 1,38,267 solar pumps have been sanctioned throughout the country and 34,941 pumps have been installed," New and Renewable Energy Minister Piyush Goyal …
The Shramik Mukti Dal, an organization fighting for the rights of displaced people, has decided to hold protests at the various dams in the state on August 9 to attract attention of the state government to their issues. Bharat Patankar, president of the organization has warned that the people displaced …
Rain water use efficiency (RWUE) is the assessment of a rainfed cropping system’s capacity to convert water into plant biomass or grain. Comparison of RWUE of various crops grown under traditional tribal farming system and its performance in drought year will give an insight for prioritization of crops grown in …
Californians reduced their water use by more than 27 percent in June, exceeding the amount ordered by Democratic Governor Jerry Brown in the state's first-ever mandatory conservation rules amid an ongoing catastrophic drought, authorities said. The successful cutback in water use in the first month since Brown's order was particularly …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on clearance for dams, 28/07/2015. The Ministry has received sixteen (16) proposals for construction of multipurpose, irrigations and flood control dams in the country during the last 3 years. Environmental clearance has been accorded to 12 projects. A list of these 12 projects is annexed.
Khartoum - Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, Hassan Abdul Gadir Hilal announced that his country got $ 20 million from the World Bank, as part of the bank support to the great green wall and support of the environment, and that Sudan received $ 3.8 million as first payment. …
It would take nearly 91 years for the Chhattisgarh water resources department to achieve the ambitious target of irrigating 75 per cent of the gross sown area (GSA) given the pace with which it had been implementing the plan, pointed the report of Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India. …
Sri Lanka plans to store and use a billion cubic meters of rainwater per year, which would otherwise drain into the sea, in an ambitious effort to boost irrigation and power production. The new water management system is being built in the country's dry zone, which covers its northern and …
Agriculture economist and Chancellor, Central University of Punjab, Dr SS Johal, asserted that the state’s agriculture sector was under immense duress, besides crop diversification and farmers’ suicides were major challenges. Addressing a function to mark unique project of “Agents of change” initiated by Centre for International Projects Trust (CIPT), New …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on approval for irrigation projects, 21/07/2015. The Government have received proposals for environmental clearance for irrigation projects from various states including Maharashtra. During the last 3 years and including current year, twelve (12) irrigation projects have been accorded environment clearance (EC). A list of these …
The state government is planning to bring 2.15 lakh hectares of additional land under irrigation through 132 projects in some of the suicide-prone districts within the next three years. The Maharashtra government plans to levy an additional tax to mobilise Rs 25,000 crore over the next five years to enable …
Future projections on irrigation water under a changing climate are highly dependent on meteorological data derived from general circulation models (GCMs). Since climate projections include biases, bias correction is widely used to adjust meteorological elements, such as the atmospheric temperature and precipitation, but less attention has been paid to biases …
With work on the artificial lake on the Tawi getting delayed due to repeated political interference, the government has set a new target date to complete the project — March 31, 2016. The project was taken up in 2010 and has missed nearly five deadlines. Recently, it landed into a …
NAGPUR: The landmark judgment by principal bench of National Green Tribunal (NGT), Delhi, quashing office memorandum (OM) of Union ministry of environment & forest on clearance of projects involving violation of Environment Protection Act, 1986, has cast a shadow on at least six irrigation projects in Maharashtra, three of them …
The growing scarcity of water resources worldwide is conditioned not only by precipitation changes but also by changes to water use patterns; the latter is driven by social contexts such as capital intensity, trade openness, and income. This study explores the determinants of water use by focusing on the effect …
