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 …
As water scarcity in both China and India worsens, the competition over shared water resources in their transboundary rivers, particularly the Brahmaputra River, is set to intensify. Without an effective working mechanism between the two countries, water conflicts could potentially become a serious challenge to Sino-Indian relations. Nonetheless, the water …
NEW DELHI: Differences over water sharing between two BJP-ruled states Gujarat and Maharashtra continue to block the Centre's ambitious plan to go ahead with its two river-linking projects — Damanganga-Pinjal and ParTapi-Narmada. Though the detailed project reports (DPRs) of these river links had been submitted to the Centre in August …
Karnataka had sought an amicable solution to the dispute; Goa prefers dispute to be resolved by Water Disputes Tribunal PANJIM: The State government has rejected Karnataka’s proposal to have an out of court settlement of Mhadei river water dispute between the two states and said the dispute should be resolved …
The Environmental Justice Atlas or EJAtlas.org is a freely accessible on-line interactive information portal that helps academic scholars and public policymakers across the world in identifying exemplary cases of peoples’ resistance against climate change and environment degradation. EJAtlas.org is conceived by the EJOLT project – an acronym for the ‘Environmental …
Water cooperation has received prominent focus in the post-2015 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While proposals for measuring water cooperation appear to be converging toward a small set of indicators, the degree to which these proposed indicators draw on past work is unclear. This paper mines relevant past work …
State terms Telangana's application delaying tactics A view of River Krishna near Almatti dam in Bagalkot district. The Supreme Court on Thursday clarified that it would not call for records to examine the reasons for the Centre's stand in the Krishna water dispute between Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. The Centre …
The Centre on Monday told the Supreme Court that the assigned Krishna Water Tribunal will decide Telangana's share of the river water, and this will be done without disturbing the allocation made to neighbouring States of Karnataka and Maharashtra. The Union Ministry of Water Resources made it clear to a …
It will cause irreparable damage to the Western Ghats region, says expert The Yettinahole project, if implemented, will not only cause irreparable damage to the Western Ghats region in Karnataka, but also open a new front of disputes with the Krishna and Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunals, cautioned S.G. Mayya, retired …
The Karnataka government has told the Supreme Court that Tamil Nadu’s demand for the release of 45.32 tmcft of Cauvery water proceeds from a wholly erroneous premise that the water year of 2015-16 in the Cauvery basin is a “normal year” and not a “distress year”. Objecting to Tamil Nadu’s …
Global freshwater vulnerability is a product of environmental and human dimensions, however, it is rarely assessed as such. Our approach identifies freshwater vulnerability using four broad categories: endowment, demand, infrastructure, and institutions, to capture impacts on natural and managed water systems within the coupled human–hydrologic environment. These categories are represented …
It is regrettable that politicians in Karnataka are trying to consolidate their position by displaying a partisan attitude in the Cauvery issue, Union Minister of State for Shipping, Road Transport and Highways Pon Radhakrishnan said here on Thursday. Talking to reporters, he said Tamil Nadu was not demanding excess water …
Claiming before the Supreme Court that the right to access water is a human rights issue, the Telangana government on Wednesday sought fresh allocation of the disputed waters of the Krishna river. In a hearing before a Bench led by Justice Dipak Misra, the State said previous dispute proceedings and …
The law and policy frameworks for allocation or reallocation of water to different uses, or within a category of use, remain underdeveloped in India. This paper intends providing a starting point for a conversation on the law and policy dimensions of inter-sectoral water allocation. Focusing on a specific inter-sectoral water …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on inter-state river water sharing disputes, 06/08/2015. On the complaint made by the State Governments, the Central Government has, so far, set up 08 Tribunals to settle water disputes among the States under the Inter-State River Water Disputes (ISRWD) Act, 1956. The present status of …
PANJIM: In a major disclosure, the Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti said that Maharashtra government did not secure environmental clearances (EC) for the controversial Virdi dam, currently in a legal battle before the Mhadei Water Dispute Tribunal (MWDT). “Maharashtra government did not secure environmental clearances for the Virdi dam …
51 out of 83 locations spread across 40 important rivers at interstate borders are polluted with respect to Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD) says this new CPCB report on water quality of interstate rivers and recommends sewage treatment plants for all towns and cities. CPCB identified water quality monitoring stations at …
Threatens to “stop water from different sources going to Madhya Pradesh” Water dispute between Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh showed no signs of abating with the Irrigation Minister, Shivpal Singh Yadav, taking a tough stand on the neighbouring State’s move to deny U.P. its share of water from the Bansagar …
Madhya Pradesh government on Thursday sharply refused to release water from the Bansagar Dam to Uttar Pradesh. A meeting was held between the two state government water resources departments in the presence of Union minister Uma Bharati to resolve the issue of water sharing from the dam. A Madhya Pradesh …
No impact on water-sharing: Minister The Irrigation Design and Research Board of Kerala has approached the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) for environmental clearance for constructing a new dam at Mullaiperiyar. The Supreme Court had on May 12 turned down the Tamil Nadu government’s request to stall the Environmental …
PANAJI: Barely four days after Maharashtra government officials point blankly stated that Goa would not get a drop of water from the Virdi Dam, Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis tried to downplay the situation saying that the two states would work something out. "It is not about Goa or Maharashtra, …
