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 …
Transboundary rivers are increasingly being drawn upon to meet the needs of growing populations and economies. This increased pressure on the available water resources sharpens competing demands between countries, rural and urban areas, different user groups, and the river ecosystems themselves. The challenge is to balance these competing demands in …
All transboundary water bodies create hydrological, social and economic interdependencies between societies. They are vital for economic development, reducing poverty and contributing to the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals. While embedding a potential for discourse and conflict, they provide opportunities for cooperation and promotion of regional peace and security …
This book brings together current knowledge and cutting edge interdisciplinary perspectives from renowned scholars on the histories, politics, ecologies and cultures of water in South Asia. It explores the complexities of the issues and challenges thrown up by contemporary water management practices in the South Asian region. It also attempts …
Conflict is an unavoidable aspect of human social systems. Given the central importance of water resources to all human communities, it is natural that conflicts arise with regard to access, allocation, development and management of the resource. This training manual is compiled from many training courses held by partner networks …
Barely a week after the Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez threatened to halt oil shipments to the us, the socialist leader has sent a placatory message, saying the country is not preparing to cut off oil supply to the us. "We don't have plans to stop sending oil to the us,' …
A proposed plan to open Europe's largest open pit precious metal mine has soured relations between Hungary and Romania, raising serious concerns regarding the European Union's (eu's) rules on mining waste and waste management. Following talks on July 31 in Bucharest, Hungary's environment ministry asked Romania to refuse environmental permit …
The dispute over expanding fences along the Mexico-us border seems to be headed towards a crisis. Mexican environmental officials recently said they would drag the us to the International Court of Justice if it did not drop its fencing plans. Their objections are based on fears of harm to wildlife …
Surface and groundwater that cross international boundaries present increased challenges to regional stability because hydrologic needs can often be overwhelmed by political considerations. While the potential for paralyzing disputes is especially high in these basins, history shows that water can catalyze dialogue and cooperation, even between especially contentious riparians. There …
Power to the people: The Sri Lankan government has started working on a five-year national plan on power and energy development to provide quality service at cheaper rates and to solve the country's power crisis. Under the plan, construction of the first natural gas-fired power plant with a 300 MW-capacity …
Pakistan has put on hold a meet to bring together scientists from India, Pakistan and China to discuss setting up a science park at Siachen glacier since the Karakoram range in the Himalaya has been inadequately studied. RELATED STORY • Leader : woolly headed environmentalism [March 31, 2004] Jack Shroder, …
Pakistan has objected to several features of the Baglihar hydropower project on the Chenab river in Jammu and Kashmir contending that it violates the Indus Water Treaty. The World Bank, which brokered the IWT, has appointed a neutral expert to resolve the differences. Diplomats fear these developments might cast a …
pakistan president Pervez Musharraf's summit-level talks with prime minister Manmohan Singh on April 17, 2005 at New Delhi made little headway in resolving the Baglihar dam row, which has become crucial to defining the future bilateral relations between the two nations. This was despite Singh underlining India's keenness to solve …
clouds of uncertainty shroud the future of the Indus Water Treaty (iwt) between India and Pakistan, with its arbitrator, the World Bank (wb), shying away from intervening in a dispute related to the treaty. Following the failure of the recent secretary-level talks between the two countries on the controversial Baglihar …
the talks between India and Pakistan on the Baglihar hydel power project on the Chenab River at Ramban in Jammu and Kashmir (j&k;) have failed. The two neighbours held discussions on the 450-megawatt project on January 4-7, 2004. The deadlock appeared with India suggesting continuation of discussions on the project's …
it is not often that riparian states are able to sink their differences and resolve a meandering water-sharing dispute. A breakthrough of this nature was achieved in the us on October 16, when Secretary of the Interior, Gale Norton, inked the Colorado River Water Delivery Agreement in Nevada. Despite the …
In the early days of the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (gatt), trade and environment related disputes were diplomatically resolved. Over the years, there developed a ‘rule based’ system. Under the present two-stage dispute settlement procedure under the wto, a finding of the dispute settlement panel
The controversy embroiling India's mega-plan to link its Himalayan rivers with those in the peninsular region by 2016 has now spilled over to Nepal, Bangladesh and Bhutan. Although they have not as yet raised any questions officially, resentment is brewing in these neighbouring countries. This was apparent at a three-day …
India has lost in the initial stage of the textile trade battle with the US. A dispute settlement panel of the World Trade Organization (WTO) decreed on June 20 that US laws on "rules of origin' for textile products were consistent with WTO agreements. India had challenged the US over …
