Haryana

HC orders Haryana government to supply adequate water to Delhi and monitor Yamuna through live Google maps

Centre issues drought advisory to six states

India is the largest user of groundwater in the world. It uses an estimated 230 km3 of groundwater per year, which is over a quarter of the global total. About 85 percent of rural drinking water needs, 65 percent of irrigation needs and 50 percent of urban drinking water and industrial needs are fulfilled with groundwater.

NGT takes a stand on Deepor Beel

Forced eviction ordered for more than one million tribals and forest-dwellers

In a decade, only a quarter of centrally funded major to medium irrigation schemes completed: Report

Until a few decades ago, the Ganga flowed with gay abandon and descended with rapidity into the plains. Today the waters have withdrawn from its banks and downstream of the hydropower and irrigation projects that have hindered its flow, the Ganga is totally dry.

Fund approved to boost climate resilience among coastal communities

Anil (40) died on September 14, 2018 while clearing a block in a sewage line at Dabri, a locality in north-west Delhi. Cleaners hired by state governments and civic bodies are supposed to be provided safety equipment like gas masks, goggles, gumshoes, gloves, safety belt etc. Yet, Anil was unprotected when he died of asphyxiation due to the presence of poisonous gas in the gutter.

New coastal projects to ignore Olive Ridley turtles