Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Residents Welfare Association Savita Vihar Vs Irrigation & Flood Control Department & Others dated 28/05/2025. The applicant raised the grievance against throwing of construction debris and sewage obstruction in the Ghazipur drain. According to the applicant this drain flows behind …
Irrigation water security is vital both for livelihood and food security. While the country has made large investments in the augmentation of water supply, there have been no commensurate efforts in the management of demand and in the promotion of efficient and economic water use. This report draws attention to …
function table() { var popurl="image/20051215/43_map.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=640,height=250,scrollbars=yes") } In south-west Delhi is Mayapuri, a robust industrial area, divided into two phases. Dye factories, electro-plating and painting units, automobile factories, food-processing units exist cheek-by-jowl in Mayapuri phase i, while resolute junk-dealers try to salvage all that's possible from enormous clutters in the …
• Engineers moved more than 10,000,000 cubic meters (cum) of earth in building the road; enough to build a wall three feet wide and 10 feet high, from New York to San Francisco • They also dug 1,000,000 cum of gravel from river beds to surface the road; if loaded …
It's 7 am. T here is little traffic on the usually busy highway that bestrides the Noida Industrial Area, on the outskirts of Delhi. A dark, frail person in a grimy shirt walks towards a drain; he has a jerry can in his hand. This is Ramkaran, originally from Mau-Aimma …
The Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF) and the Save Coast Action Committee, Badin, recently organised a token one-day hunger strike in front of Karachi Press Club to protest the loss of livelihood and ecological harm caused by mega drainage projects like the Left Bank Outfall Drain (LBOD) project and the National …
At least four people were killed and nearly 2,000 rendered homeless after heavy rains in the western Kenya triggered devastating floods. The rainwater, in the absence of a proper drainage system, entered the region's Nyando river, swelling it. Those displaced are currently recuperating in camps set up by the Red …
Between the 16th and 19th century, a secular Euro-Asian and Euro-American trade boomed, following the voyages of Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama and other explorers. Europeans encountered exotic spices, silk, sugar and gold
This report contains information on ownership, area type, structure, living facilities like electricity, drinking water, latrine, sewerage, drainage, garbage disposal, distance of the slum from nearest primary school and government hospital/health centre. It also provides information on the change in the condition of the urban slums during the last five …
wall stalled: A mid-level court in South Korea has stayed further work on the Saemangeum Sea Wall which, upon completion, would be the world's largest coastal drainage project. More than 3500 citizens and local environmental groups had earlier filed a case against the proposed structure. Conservationists contend that construction of …
Thirty years of planning, 15 years of construction, ten years of promises and Rs 15,000 crore later, the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) is finally functioning
New global models provide the opportunity to generate quantitative information about the world water situation. Here the WaterGAP 2 model is used to compute globally comprehensive estimates about water availability, water withdrawals, and other indicators on the river-basin scale. In applying the model to the current global water situation, it …
During the last hundred years or so, deforestation and wind-water borne soil erosion have been steadily increasing and have now become the major environmental problems the world over. The man-made Sukhna Lake brought into existence through blocking of the water flow in the Sukhna Choe originating from these hills by …
Repairing of Phnom Penh's roads and drainage system has led to the doubling of the city's air pollution, recent tests reveal. "Tens of thousands of residents of the Cambodian capital are suffering from respiratory problems because of the renovation activities,' said Veng Thai, the city's municipal health director. But the …
Amid environmental concerns, the Lagos government is planning to ban the sale of mineral water packed in cellophane paper. "Sachets carelessly thrown away are blocking drainage channels designed to take away running flood water to canals,' claims Dele Alake, the country's commissioner for information and strategy. This is proving to …
every once in a while, eating the tuberous growth in the wetlands, the male and female Sarus crane ( Grus antigone antigone ) strike a pose and make their call in unison. The villagers of Etawah and Mainpuri districts of Uttar Pradesh ( up ) have for ages been used …
in a bid to provide the residents of Guwahati with some respite from water-logging and its consequent health problems, the Guwahati Metropolitan Development Authority ( gmda ) has chalked out a Rs 67-crore stormwater drainage scheme. The loan has been sanctioned by the Housing and Urban Development Corporation ( hudco …
The evolution of groundwater quality at a wet zone in Sri Lanka was made clear using field investigation, chemical and isotopic analyses methods. In the wet zone, the concentrations of major ions and electrical conductivity (EC) in the groundwater are low with small seasonal change. Except for sodium, silica and …
The concept paper describes the problems of the city of Agra and the anxeityy of the Hon'ble Supreme Court articulated in the various orders passed in connection with the Writ Petition (Civil) No. 13381/84-M.C. Mehta Vs. Union of India & Others. The paper also goes on to describe the various …
