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 …
Decrease text sizeIncrease text size Feb. 25: The public health department officials sent a proposal to the government to release Rs 1.89 crore to implement the summer action plan in the 12 municipalities in the district to solve drinking water problem. Generally, during summer drinking water consumption will increase at …
The Delhi Jal Board was accorded administrative approval on Tuesday for development of a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system at its Bhagirathi water treatment plant. Once installed, the system, to be set up at the cost of Rs 121 crore, will provide real-time data delivery to authorised personnel …
THANJAVUR: Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Trombay, is involved in solving the water problem in eight Himalayan sites using isotopes said K. Shivanna, Head, Isotope Hydrology Section, Isotope Application division, BARC, here on Monday. Speaking at the national-level workshop on
Water might be locally renewable, but it is also a globally finite resource with shifting availability. Industry accounts for most of the water used in the U.S., yet industry-specific estimates of that consumption
The revised National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP) Guidelines 2009-2012 issued by Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission, Department of Drinking Water Supply has shift the focus from
This article links databases on household consumption, industrial production, economic turnover, employment, water use, and greenhouse gas emissions into a spatially explicit model. The causal sequence starts with households demanding a certain consumer basket. This demand requires production in a complex supply-chain network of interdependent industry sectors. Even though the …
BHUBANESWAR: Despite Bhubaneswar being touted as one of the fastest growing among the state capitals, nearly 50 per cent of its people do not have access to pipe water supply. Sounds strange? But out of 60 wards of the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation, four are yet to be covered and only …
The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has planned to build six small dams in the federal capital to cope with water scarcity that is feared to get worse with the increase in population and development of more residential sectors.
Mumbai: Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) has suggested the Fire Brigade to make use of water from bore wells and dug wells as part of its fire fighting operations. "Currently, as we are facing acute financial and water crisis so we have asked fire department to make use of …
The purpose of this paper is to: challenge some of the misplaced notions of food security challenges posed by the country; by examining how far water becomes a constraint in achieving food security in different regions; analyze the potential future impacts of problems on nation
Faced with mounting shortages of water, a worsening trend in water pollution and growing damages from climate change, the international community must find additional ways to support countries in managing their water resources. The challenge, according to the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group, is to meet today's water needs while …
India is the largest groundwater user in the world, with an estimated usage of around 230 cubic kilometers per year, more than a quarter of the global total. With more than 60 percent of irrigated agriculture and 85 percent of drinking water supplies dependent on it, groundwater is a vital …
Concerns about food security and apprehensions of future water scarcity are common to all the countries in the world. This paper focuses on the water issue between India and Bangladesh. Crisscrossed by the rivers and streams, Bangladesh is a water-abundant country with low-per capital water availability. Almost 94% of the …
The State Water Policy focuses on key areas of water management, which include: Building an enabling environment; Implementing a range of institutional tools, including local capacity building and participatory approaches; and Integrating new management tools and systems such as the integrated data systems, water demand management and a new communication …
Mumbai: The city is facing one of its worst water crises and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is making all possible efforts to save the taps from running dry. The civic body, which has launched the
Mumbai: Chief minister Ashok Chavan has asked the railways to look for other sources of water to meet their daily requirements. The Central and Western Railway require about 38.52 lakh litres of water of which the former consumes nearly 23.40 lakh litres to wash local train coaches. "We want to …
As scientists worry about the prospect of a catastrophic flood from Lake Sarez in the Pamir Mountains, agricultural communities on the plains below face a very different problem. This arid region in Central Asia has inherited a set of resource blunders made decades ago by the Soviet Union. And since …
