Just mention the large brown-and-white bird and the residents of Mardi village in Solapur burst out in anger. The district in Maharashtra is one of the few refuges for the rare Great Indian Bustard (Ardeotis nigriceps), endemic to the grasslands of India and Pakistan. Of the 30-35 birds remaining in …
Call it the fallout of seven years of severe drought or government inaction, a silent revolution is brewing in Lalitpur district of Uttar Pradesh. Communities are getting united and digging channels to bring water from government canals to their fields. Some are volunteering labour, while those belonging to Scheduled castes …
PEOPLE displaced by the Pong dam are still waiting to be rehabilitated, forty years after the dam was built. They were promised canal-irrigated land in Ganganagar district, but the Rajasthan government is now offering them semiarid land in Bikaner. The dam in Himachal Pradesh supplies water to Punjab, Haryana and …
Setting aside environmental concerns and ignoring the threat to one of the most fertile belts in India, Uttar Pradesh government is set to start work on the eight-lane expressway along the Upper Ganga Canal. The 147.8 km expressway will connect Greater Noida in Gautam Budh Nagar district and the Uttar …
Water is one of the most valuable resources. The agriculture sector is the largest consumer of water resources in the developing countries. Assured supply of water is necessary for sustainable agriculture.
The Narmada water from neighbouring Gujarat touched the desert sands of Rajasthan on Thursday at a function marking the release of water to the receiving head at Lalpura village in Jalore district. The water will serve the needs of people in Barmer and Jalore districts apart from irrigating 2.46 lakh …
National Conference (NC) today demanded the re-opening of Ranbir Canal keeping in view the shortage of irrigation water. As per a press release, NC provincial president Ajay Sadhotra during an interaction with the deputation of formers from Block Marh urged state government to open the water in the Ranbir Canal …
The crops of wheat and sunflower have been severely damaged due to the shortage of water in the canals. Most of the canals in southern Punjab are closed nowadays. Farmers are facing lot of difficulty due to this situation. The production is also expected to be low due to this …
Acute shortage of water at Kotri Barrage has pressed the panic button in the Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) Hyderabad, to replenish it's water lagoons for 15 days keeping in mind the fact that existing shortage, according to irrigation officials, is going to persist for around three weeks. When contacted, …
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued notices to the DCOs of Hyderabad and Tando Mohammad Khan, Sindh Industrial Trading Estate (Site) managing director, Taluka Municipal Administration (TMA) City, Latifabad, and Managing Director of Wasa for violating law by disposing of industrial effluent and domestic wastewater in the Phulelli canal …
Provincial Irrigation Minister Senator Dilawar Abbas met Caretaker Chief Minister Punjab former Justice Ejaz Nisar at Chief Minister's Secretariat here Tuesday and gave him a detailed briefing regarding ongoing projects in irrigation sector. Former Justice Ejaz Nisar said that huge funds were being spent on strengthening of irrigation sector for …
A 12-kilometre long tunnel of 10 metre diametre would be constructed at a cost of Rs 799 crore for carrying Narmada water to the basin of Son river under Bargi diversion project. This decision was taken at a meeting at Vidhan Sabha chamber, which was chaired by Chief Minister Shivraj …
The Narmada waters from the neighbouring Gujarat are likely to reach the border districts of Rajasthan by the month-end, enabling the State Government to expand the drinking water and irrigation facilities in the remote rural areas shortly. State Water Resources Minister Sanwarlal Jat announced in the Assembly over the week-end …
As a result of special recovery campaign of water cess (Aabiana), the Punjab government has been able to recover an amount of Rs 9.73 million in eight days from the defaulters. This was disclosed by the General Manager Operations of Punjab Irrigation and Drainage Authority (PIDA) Muhammad Ashraf Khan Niazi …
The Central Water Commission (CWC) has avoided to give its explicit opinion on the legality of the controversial Hansi-Butana feeder channel being built by Haryana to the Supreme Court or whether it will flood certain areas of Punjab but said adequate flood disposal mechanism has been planned in the project. …
Farmers are hard hit by the re-closure of water in the canals in Abbasia and Cholistan areas of Tehsil Liaqatpur, which is affecting the standing wheat crop. Several local councillors including Dr Muhammad Aslam, Chaudhry Asghar Ali lumbardar Abdul Karim and others have urged early release of water in the …
Even as resentment is brewing among the farmers of the SRSP tail-end areas in Peddapalli division over the alleged denial of water supply, the SRSP officials have stepped up vigil in association with the police to prevent unauthorised tapping of water from the main canals in the division to ensure …
Punjab takes up the challenge THE repair of a canal normally would not have attracted much notice but for the fact that it is for the first time since Independence that a government in Punjab has undertaken to revamp the dilapidated canal system. The embankments along a 25-km stretch of …
The Punjab government has rejected the Rajasthan government's demand to supply 20,000 cusecs of canal water over and above the existing use of the water for irrigation purpose through the Rajasthan feeder being made by it. Sources said Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhra Raje had written to Parkash Singh Badal for …
Dry irrigation canals in the Malwa heartland of Punjab have made agriculturists weep. Most of the canals and tributaries in the area have been lying dry and causing drinking water crisis for the past two months, farmers cry. The farmers also lament that they are forced to buy drinking water …
