Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Bharatiya Kisan Union Purwa through its Secretary Vs Union of India Ministry of Jal Shakti & Others dated 07/03/2025. The grievance of the applicant is that railway bridge between Daraganj and Jhunsi is being constructed on the flood plains of …
relief declined: The Krishna Water Tribunal declined to grant an interim relief on the applications filed by Maharashtra and Karnataka seeking the tribunal's intervention in restraining the lower riparian state of Andhra Pradesh from going ahead with the construction of 11 projects in the Krishna and Godavari basins. The three-member …
ONE accusation that is flung at the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) consistently is that the organisation is against the Sardar Sarovar dam. While this was true at one time, the NBA has been forced to accept the existence of the dam and it no longer denounces its construction. Instead, its …
pollution fine: A Chinese water firm has won US $285,100 in a lawsuit against three firms in the Inner Mongolian city of Baotou for polluting more than 400 km of the Yellow river. Initially, the firm had been awarded US $358,000, but after an appeal the three companies and the …
Delhi has been waiting. For its neighbour, Uttar Pradesh (up), to release water to its swank Sonia Vihar water treatment plant. The prime minister himself intervenes in the matter. He persuades up to release water. Only to be rebuffed by up political leaders, who say their farmers and cities need …
andhra Pradesh (ap) has sent a third memo to Maharashtra, asking it to stop the construction of the Rs 1,200 crore Babli hydropower project on river Godavari. At a recent press conference, ap's irrigation minister P Lakshamaiah said the state government would do anything to block the project, but he …
the cause of a fresh dispute between Orissa and Andhra Pradesh (ap) over the sharing of the water of Vanshadhara River has been put on hold. ap 's plan to divert the river water by cutting the right bank near Katraagada village, close to the interstate boundary, had enraged farmers …
The controversy over the Satluj-Yamuna Link Canal only serves to stoke regional chauvinism and deflect attention from the real agrarian crisis faced by Haryana and Punjab. IT takes a fair bit of asking around to find the dank office tucked away in a corner in Chandigarh's Sector 35, the Office …
Bangladesh has asked the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to stop loans for the Indian river-linking projects till transboundary disputes are settled. The Bangladesh delegation has suggested that not only should the bank address issues such as providing safe drinking water and sanitation for the poor, it should also involve itself …
There exist, in India today, at least two ways of resolving water-related conflicts. One is the way the conflict over river Cauvery is being managed. The river of woes for Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalitha and her Karnataka counterpart S M Krishna, not a single day has passed in …
Andhra Pradesh's response to the Paragodu project has been multi-pronged - when the government takes the issue to the Centre and the Supreme Court, the political parties adopt the agitational approach. Andhra Pradesh views the Paragodu dam project as yet another attempt by Karnataka to deprive it, the lower riparian …
The battle between the Union minister of environment and forests, T R Baalu, and Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa over an amendment to the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) notification has taken a fresh twist. A division bench of the Madras High Court has suspended for two weeks the operation …
the Supreme Court (sc) has asked the Union government to consider linking the country's rivers within 10 years, advancing the government's own deadline. Earlier, the Union ministry of water resources had filed an affidavit stating that this project, which it claimed would control flood and drought conditions, would be completed …
At a time when the Cauvery river dispute rages on, the Supreme Court (SC) has directed the Union government and all the states to respond on the crucial issue of networking of inter-state rivers. Such an arrangement, the apex court observed, would help tide over the cyclical flood and drought …
Why is everything important reduced to a dramatic farce in our country? Take the Cauvery imbroglio. The issue is serious and important. Namely how will states, regions and people share increasingly scarce water resources? What can we do to maximise water availability? But what do we have instead: an unseemly …
once more, there is talk of nationalising the country's rivers and river basins. And this time around, the idea came from the Supreme Court. During the hearing over the sharing of the river waters, the apex court asked solicitor general Harish Salve if it was possible to bring rivers under …
rajasthan farmers will not get water for irrigation purposes after March 15, 2001. The state irrigation ministry has recently issued a circular to this effect. The decision will affect people living in six districts. The state government alleges that the Punjab government has reduced Rajasthan's share of water from the …
the Inter-State Water Disputes Act, 1956, which provides for adjudication of disputes relating to waters of inter-state rivers and river valleys, will soon be amended to incorporate the Inter-State Council on the Sarkaria Commission's recommendations. A bill to this effect will be introduced in the forthcoming session of Parliament. The …
