Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
CHENNAI: Come summer, water tops the priority list of most households. With the demand on the rise, government and private agencies are gearing up to meet the requirements of customers. The Chennai Metrowater is supplying 774 million litres of water a day (mld) to residents of city and suburbs. Of …
New project will focus on reforms in distribution mechanism In about two months from now two populated pockets of the city can look forward to a more streamlined distribution of water in their areas. The Delhi Jal Board that supplies water to these areas and the rest of the city …
The main purposes of this paper were to assess effects of smallholder farmers access to livelihood capital (e.g. land, livestock and water) on livestock water productivity (LWP) and to evaluate impacts of selected interventions in reducing livestock water demand (per unit of livestock product) and therefore increasing LWP.
As water gets scarce, the lendings in the sector by international financial institutions like the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) are being looked into more critically. Most critics believe that with small investments, the banks have been able to dictate water policies in developing countries. These institutions …
Nearly 3 billion additional urban dwellers are forecasted by 2050, an unprecedented wave of urban growth. While cities struggle to provide water to these new residents, they will also face equally unprecedented hydrologic changes due to global climate change. Here we use a detailed hydrologic model, demographic projections, and climate …
Unless more sustainable water resource management practices are adopted by companies and individuals, almost half of the global economy - and more than half of the world's population - will be exposed to severe water scarcity by 2050. These are the results of an analysis conducted by Veolia Water and …
The Compendium of Environment Statistics 2010 prepared under the broad Framework for Development of Environment Statistics provided by the United Nations Statistics Division and adopted by the Steering Committee on Environment Statistics set up by CSO during 1996. The five parameters of the framework, namely, biodiversity, atmosphere, land/soil, water, and …
This paper presents the results of the Columbia Water Center’s study of the severe groundwater crisis in the Mehsana region of Northern Gujarat, India. The study concludes that the current pattern of groundwater exploitation is both costly for the state and unsustainable for farmers, and could lead to the complete …
Dhaka WASA will need Tk 108.5 billion (US$ 1.55 billion) in next ten years to implement projects for meeting the demand for water by the growing population of the capital city. Some US$ 1550 million investment is required for three water treatment plants of Saidabad, Pagla and Khilkhet during the …
Acute water scarcity has been declared in the district and as many as 383 borewells will be sunk to tackle the crisis, district in-charge minister A Narayanaswamy has said.
KARACHI: The country is going to face the worst water shortage in the next couple of years due to insufficient water management practices and storage capacity, agriculture and water experts said Saturday. A report by the Washington DC based Woodrow Wilson Center described Pakistan
Capital Dhaka is in the grip of an acute water crisis marked by shortage in supply and contamination. According to a national daily, the shortage of water in the city now stands at 200 million liters and it may rise further up to 2500 million liters in the ensuing summer. …
The country-wide Market Assessment Study of Solar Water Heaters carried out in 2009 under the UNDP/GEF Project identified high potential States and Regions. This study focuses on five states/regions which are likely to contribute 49% of the SWH realizable potential up to 2022. These are: Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Andhra …
This report fulfils the requirements of Deliverable 3.6.1 within work package 3.6 of the PREPARED Enabling change project (EC Seventh Framework Programme Theme 6). The report evaluates existing methods applied to quantify and reduce uncertainty in models applied to UWS, and in other related fields. Further, the report reviews the …
This report analyzes how the United States can be more strategic in delivering water-related assistance in Central and South Asia to maximize its peacekeeping and humanitarian benefits. It also makes the following four recommendations to the administration with respect to water issues in the region that capture opportunities for enhanced …
To tackle water crisis during summer, the government will construct mini tanks and sink borewells in the areas newly added to the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike, said Urban Development Minister S Suresh Kumar. Speaking to presspersons after a review meeting with Bangalore legislators, BBMP corporators and BWSSB officials on Monday, …
ADB initiated the study on the Cross-Sectoral Implications of Biofuel Production and Use with the objective of generating scientific information on biofuel production and its use to facilitate implementation of the biofuel policy by the Government of India. The broad objective of the ADB assignment is to identify the policy …
The international community is hardly making progress on making safe water available to all. More awareness, better management and long-term cooperation could make a difference.
