China’s use of water as an “unconventional weapon” of warfare against India is a major geopolitical and environmental concern for New Delhi, strategic affairs expert Brahma Chellaney warned, as he recalled how Beijing’s refusal to provide New Delhi with hydrological data in 2017 had caused “preventable deaths.” “As an upper-stream state, China is obliged to […]
A study by the Central Ground Water Board has revealed that India’s Ganga-Yamuna plain is rapidly running out of ground water. Despite isolated cases like that of Chennai and Bangalore, the study also revealed that other areas of the country, including the east and the south, are better placed as far as ground water depletion […]
Infrastructure major Larsen and Toubro (L&T) on Tuesday bagged contracts for its water and effluent treatment business from in Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand and Odisha. The total value of the contracts is between Rs 5,000 to 7,000 cr. The engineering and construction company secured two orders from the Government of Tamil Nadu for the execution of […]
Water pipe manufacturer and construction company Indian Hume Pipe Co said it has won a Rs 578.50 cr order from the Madhya Pradesh government. The order was from Madhya Pradesh Jal Nigam Maryadit for Kundaliya Multi Village Rural water supply scheme in Rajgarh district, it added. This is the second major order the company reported […]
The Supreme Court today asked the government why it was dragging its heels on the implementation of the court’s order on the sharing of the Cauvery river water. The court asked the center to file a draft sharing plan by May 3. The court’s sharp comments come in the context of it missing the March […]
Pune Municipal Corporation has awarded a Rs 1,680 cr contract to construction major Larsen & Toubro to revamp the city’s water supply system. The plan is to “transform the prevailing intermittent water supply into 24X7 pressurized water supply and to implement 100% smart metering covering every household of Pune City over the next 5 years,” […]
Despite a good monsoon, levels of water in the country’s big river water reservoirs are substantially below where they were last year, and are also well below the average levels seen in the last ten years. The only exception was South India, which had seen extreme water stress last year. On average, the quantity of […]
Upcoming politician Kamal Hasan expressed ‘shock’ that the Supreme Court has reduced the quota of water allocated to Tamil Nadu from the river Cauvery, but said the matter should not be exploited for votes. “Like the farmers in Tamil Nadu, I am also shocked at the reduction of water,” said Hasan, who is currently building […]
The government has approved the setting up of National Mission for Clean Ganga in the place of the existing National Ganga River Basin Authority to fast track rejuvenation projects. The authority will have powers to issue directions and also to exercise the powers under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 to enable it to carry out […]
Setting up a Cauvery Water Management Board is the most ideal solution to settle the on-going Cauvery water conflict as per the directions of the Supreme Court, chairman of the Central Water Commission (CWC), Mr G.S. Jha said at an ASSOCHAM event held in New Delhi today. “The Cauvery Water Management Board is to be […]
