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 …
BHUBANESWAR: While Opposition parties are crying foul over largescale diversion of water for industries, the current industrial demand for water in the State is only 4.2 per cent of the annual average flow. The State Government has signed memoranda of understanding with 86 industries while water has been allocated to …
Bokaro, July 8: Built in the late 60s to supply water to Bokaro steel plant and the township, Tenughat dam is now looking to increase capacity by more than 40 per cent to fulfil growing demand from new industries, Dhanbad and even parts of Bengal. Tenughat dam, whose concrete canal …
Climate change will impact water supplies, exacerbating existing pressures on water resources caused by population and economic growth. Given the combination of these stressors, the sustainability of water resources in future decades is a concern in many parts of the world. This study presents an integration of water withdrawal projections …
Climate change will have a significant impact on the sustainability of water supplies in the coming decades. A new analysis, performed by consulting firm Tetra Tech for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), examined the effects of global warming on water supply and demand in the contiguous United States. The …
Freshwater resources are fundamental for maintaining human health, agricultural production, economic activity as well as critical ecosystem functions. As populations and economies grow, new constraints on water resources are appearing, raising questions about limits to water availability. Such resource questions are not new. The specter of
MUMBAI: Water-starved Mumbai is seeing a rush for borewells as well as water tankers. The BMC has built 511 new borewells in just two months. Meanwhile, the demand for tankers in a city burdened by a 15% water cut has seen around 100 new tankers added to the fleet of …
Thispaper explores issues in sustainable consumption and production (SCP) in the Asia-Pacific region and provides unique insights on stakeholder roles, natural resources, and transboundary issues in light of SCP. Although both consumption and production are intertwined, when talking about sustainability in the region, the primary focus here is on sustainable …
The use of water is not based on what can be expected to become available because of the economic cost and the lowering of the water table. There is a need to lower the use of water for personal hygiene and to develop dry systems of hygiene.
This report estimates the overall size and scope of the payments directed to protect or restore watershed services and accounts for the full spectrum of watershed services. Also looks at the opportunities and challenges based on the current level of transactions, experimentation and lessons learned. This report aims: to use …
This report prepared by the International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management assesses best available science on the environmental and resource impacts of production and consumption. The assessment report identifies priorities amongst global consumption activities, industrial sectors and materials from primary industries in terms of their environmental impacts and their resource …
The soaring mercury beat all available records to make today the hottest day in the Queen of the Hills in 170 years. As the temperature climbed to 32.4
KOLKATA, 18 May: Despite the Mayor, Mr Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharyya, promising an improvement in the supply of potable water in the city, water woes continue to haunt city dwellers. Projects worth over Rs 300 crore have been mooted and initiated during the five years of the Left Front's tenure ~ …
women in Bikhnatori village in Bihar are jubilant they no longer have to walk hours to fetch water. For the first time since Independence, the border village is getting potable water supply. The Bihar government started supplying 3,000 litres of water daily through a tanker from March 25. Down To …
BHUBANESWAR: As traditional water sources are drying up and groundwater table is shrinking due to excessive exploitation, the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) has requested all the states to prepare village water security plan. The objective is to decentralise the water resources management with emphasis on community management of the …
THATTA, April 30: Hundreds of people, including women, carrying empty utensils, took out a procession here on Friday against the taluka municipal administration and slammed the persisting water shortage here on Friday. The participants belonged to Hamati Village, Nareja Village, Shah Latif Colony, Christian Colony, Civil Hospital Colony, Dars Village, …
Chandigarh: More investment in distribution of drinking water in the urban areas, bringing in a water audit system, making rainwater harvesting mandatory, reviving ponds and wells and removing the scarcity in
Growth also needs resources Resources requirement for projected production levels, bau and lc, will be many times the current. coal In bau, coal requirement for the six sectors will almost quadruple, to about 1.9 billion metric tonnes (MT), by 2030-31. This will be a formidable challenge, with vast environmental and …
GREEN lingo has by now infiltrated In dia’s economic policy circles. In his pre-budget speech, Prime Minister Manmo han Singh hinted it was time India’s industrialization took the low-carbon path. The policyspeak may not have go ne down well with the greenhouse gas-happy industry. But there was little else in …
