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 …
Climate change hasn’t driven humans to kill each other yet, but we’re getting closer. The question is no longer just whether climate change will kill us, but also whether climate change will make us kill each other. Almost 25 percent of armed conflicts in ethnically divided countries occur around the …
THE introduction of high tech equipment for monitoring and modelling water resources in Pangani Basin has helped to reduce conflicts related to water allocation and improved the management of the resource. This was revealed in Dar es Salaam yesterday by a local Consultant with Pangani Basin, Mr Hosea Sanga, at …
AP sought the release of Krishna waters from Nagarjunasagar for the Krishna Pushkaralu. Hyderabad: Differences over sharing of Krishna waters between TS and AP at the Krishna River Management Board meeting held here forced an abrupt end to the meeting. While AP sought the release of Krishna waters from Nagarjunasagar …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Interlinking of Rivers, 21/07/2016. The inter-basin transfer of water, through interlinking of rivers (ILR), is considered to be essential for addressing the twin problems of water scarcity and floods. Under the National Perspective Plan (NPP) for ILR prepared by this Ministry, 30 links (16 …
Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar has requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to look into what he said was "massive destruction" of the Western Ghats by neighbouring Karnataka, especially in and around the Mhadei river basin. "The Chief Minster has drawn the Prime Minister's attention to the ongoing massive destruction of …
An Act to provide an overarching national legal framework with principles for protection, conservation, regulation and management of water as a vital and stressed natural resource, under which legislation and executive action on water at all levels of governance, as also water-use and water-related actions by persons and their associations, …
Imrat Namdev and her younger sister Pushpa Namdev were neighbors in Chhatarpur district, in the drought-hit Indian region of Bundelkhand. Both relied on the same well for water and, according to police, frequently quarreled over how much the other was using. In May, during one fight over water, Pushpa, 42, …
Hyderabad: The Union water resources ministry on Thursday announced a committee comprising engineers from the Central Water Commission (CWC) to study the contentious issue of water sharing between Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. The committee will complete its study in a month and submit a report to the Centre. Union water …
Continue with Bachawat Award, Telangana, AP told Hyderabad: The Krishna River Management Board on Wednesday told TS and AP to continue with the sharing of water as per the Bachawat Tribunal, at least till the next one month during which period the two states would have to try and sort …
Experts say Central Kerala may see an eco-disaster, socio-economic crisis The Tamil Nadu government pushing for implementing the proposed Pampa-Achencoil-Vaipar River Link Project (PAVRLP) on a priority basis has already caused rancour and concern among a section of environmentalists and experts in Kerala. This is one of the key items …
LA PAZ – Bolivia plans to file a counter-suit against Chile at the International Court of Justice, or ICJ, over the alleged theft and illegal use of the Silala River, President Evo Morales said Tuesday. Morales discussed Bolivia’s legal plans a day after the Chilean government filed suit in the …
Thiruvananthapuram: The cabinet-ranked role of V S Achuthanandan in the new LDF dispensation is yet to be finalized but the veteran leader fired the first salvo against the government on Wednesday by seeking clarity on the CPM stand on Mullaperiyar dam . He wrote a letter in this regard to …
This draft bill released by the Union government aims to provide an overarching legal framework with principles for protection, conservation, regulation and management of water as a vital and stressed natural resource. It will be circulated as a model bill to the states, to replace the existing draft law of …
At the heart of the Cauvery Delta as part of the campaign for Assembly election, All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) general secretary J Jayalalithaa flayed her arch rival, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) president M Karunanidhi, for not implementing the final award of Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal (CWDT) that …
Punjab govt on Monday claimed in Supreme Court that it was being “unfairly treated” on the issue of water sharing and sought the setting up of a fresh tribunal to resolve its disputes on the Satluj-Yamuna Link Canal with other States. “Throughout the course of history, it is Punjab which …
AP govt on Thursday began its arguments before the Krishna Water Disputes Tribunal in Delhi. Hyderabad: The AP government on Thursday began its arguments before the Krishna Water Disputes Tribunal in Delhi, stated it was in toto against the final order of the Tribunal in 2013 and very much in …
Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) chief Capt Amarinder Singh today sought the setting up of a fresh tribunal to ascertain the exact volume of river waters. Speaking on the party’s stand on river water sharing, the PPCC chief said the total water was initially estimated at 17 MAF (million acre …
Asserting that Punjab’s right to waters of its rivers should be “safeguarded”, Governor Kaptan Singh Solanki on Tuesday appealed the Centre to remove “discrimination” in sharing it with neighbouring States. Noting that “injustice and discrimination” was meted out to Punjab over its river waters, he said the people of the …
The legal validity of the Punjab Termination of Agreements Act, 2004 is not only the case being faced by the state with regard to river waters in the Supreme Court and elsewhere. There is virtually a mountain of cases burdening the state since decades. In fact, for the past about …
