Krishna, Godavari basins drying up

Citizens groups, people's movements, socio-political activists from across India organised themselves to protest and force cancel the civil society consultations of theWorld Bank Groupin India. TheWorld Bankhas been conducting consultations for ...

NEW DELHI: Housed in the ministry of environment and forests is a quasi-independent body whose job it is to scrutinise every hydel project for environmental damage. In its six years, the hydel environmental assessment committee ( EAC) has evaluated ...

State governments counsel Sandip Shinde informed the court on Monday that water from two other dams Bhama Akshed located 280 km from Ujani and Andra that is 330 km away have been released to the dam. The water would take around 40 days to reach ...

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar is not known to make fun or crack jokes in his political speeches, when a few days back he attempted one, it resulted in a wave of deluge of criticism against him from all quarters.Pawar had said that he ...

Even if Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar responded to the demand for water in Solapur in crude terms, the Bombay High Court has stepped in to give relief to farmers in the parched district in western Maharashtra. The court on Tuesday asked the State ...

The Union Ministry of Water Resources (MoWR) along with allied government organisations like Central Water Commission (CWC), Central Ground Water Board (CGWB), National Water Development Agency (NWDA) and other related Central ministries have ...

While the Maharashtra government is crying hoarse about this year's drought surpassing the one in 1972 and farmers are cutting off their crops and digging deeper than ever for water, an analysis based on rainfall patterns blames it on poor long-term ...

The Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) is reconsidering clearance for the controversial Kalu dam in Thane district, even though it rejected a proposal last year. About 1,000 hectares of forest ...

Even as the state faces one of the most severe droughts in recent history, the irrigation department continues to divert water from the water-deficient Krishna valley to the water-surplus region of Konkan. Around 50 thousand million cubic feet of ...