Urban Water/ Drinking Water/Water Quality
- Centre for Science and Environment, Delhi initiates action on making urban buildings ‘greener’by introducing a rating system on water efficient fixtures in the country
- Tribal farmers’ protest puts Mumbai city water project in limbo
- The Supreme Court acknowledges that people have the right to free drinking water
- Fresh reports of contamination at Jawahar Dweep, Mumbai following the oil spill from MSC Chitra
- Dengue: 93 test positive, total cases reach 3,201 in Delhi
- Sudden outbreak of hepatitis A epidemic reported in Agartala, Tripura
- Cholera epidemic spreading rapidly in Kalahandi, Rayagada and Kandhamal districts of Orissa
Water for Industry
- Farmers in Orissa oppose the plan to supply surplus water from Hansua river water to Posco, India's proposed mega steel plant at Paradip
- Mahanadi Banchao Andolan, which is spearheading the movement against diversion of water to industries, has announced a massive farmers’ agitation in the Mahanadi deltaic region in Orissa
Waterbodies/Rivers
- The Multi-Purpose Indira Sagar Polavaram project in Andhra Pradesh challenged on the ground that it would affect the lives of thousands of people in its state
- Villagers from Mizoram stage a protest rally against proposed five hydel projects in the Northeast
- Peoples’ Movement for Subansiri and Brahmaputra Valley, a anti-dam NGO in the Northeast challenges the construction of dams in Arunachal Pradesh
- The Orissa Government to plan a comprehensive study on the impact of power projects on the environment
- Social entrepreneur raises funds to build wells in rural India
- Ulsoor lake in Bangalore can finally breathe as BBMP workers clear heaps of plastic that clogged drains
- Over 7000 artificial recharge structures constructed in State of Tamilnadu
- Ecological disaster predicted in Kolleru lake in Andhra Pradesh
- Cattle in the Northeast consume water and grass from fields: die of pesticide poisoning
Climate Change
Mining
- Call to halt Indian iron ore mining in Goa on the basis of environmental and ecological damage
- The Madurai bench of the Madras High Court declines to lift stay on sand mining in Tamiraparani river, a major source of irrigation in two southern districts
- Crackdown on sand mining at Mumbra creek, Maharashtra
- Vedanta, the London-listed bauxite mining company suffers another blow as Madras High court blocks their copper smelter in a region in Southern India on environmental grounds
Groundwater
Floods
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