Rivers

Union Water Minister inaugurates 4th India Water Week 2016
News this week Posted on 05 Apr, 2016 09:56 AM

India Water Week 2016 with the theme 'Water for All: Striving together' inaugurated in New Delhi 

4th India Water Week 2016 (Source: Embassy of Israel)
NGT slams Railways for using groundwater illegally
Policy matters this week Posted on 05 Apr, 2016 09:47 AM

Railways using groundwater 'indiscriminately and illegally': NGT

Indian Railways (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Drinking water becomes a luxury for Maharashtrians
News this week Posted on 29 Mar, 2016 03:06 PM

Maharashtra reeling under its worst water crisis

Queuing up for water (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)
4 crore native tree species to be planted along the stretch of the Ganga
Policy matters this week Posted on 29 Mar, 2016 11:24 AM

Centre releases DPR on forestry intervention for Ganga river

Ganga river near Gadmukteshwar (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)
Maharashra issues water advisory for Holi
News and policy matters this week Posted on 22 Mar, 2016 06:05 PM

Reservoir levels dip, Maharashtra urges people to celebrate dry holi

Holi being celebrated (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Rajya Sabha approves the National Waterways Bill 2015
Policy matters this week Posted on 15 Mar, 2016 12:27 PM

Rajya Sabha gives a go ahead to the National Waterways Bill

Navigating rivers through simple boats (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)
Sutlej-Yamuna Link canal creates rift between Punjab-Haryana
News this week Posted on 15 Mar, 2016 12:10 PM

Punjab-Haryana at crossroads over the controversial Sutlej-Yamuna canal

Sutlej river in Punjab (Source: Harpreet Riat via Wikipedia)
One river, two names and a 14-year-long dispute
Goa and Karnataka have been fighting over the Mhadei since 2002. How does this affect the extensive cooperation expected from the states for the interlinking plan? Posted on 10 Mar, 2016 07:09 PM

The Mandovi river is picture perfect. She is the wide, placid river fringed by the coconut palms and dotted by the boats that we think of when we think of Goa.

The serene Mandovi is the focus of a bitter dispute between Karnataka and Goa
World Culture Festival poses threat to the Yamuna
News this week Posted on 07 Mar, 2016 10:11 PM

Activists oppose Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's World Culture Festival along the Yamuna flood plains

Yamuna river in New Delhi (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)
Environment Ministry completes re-categorisation of industries based on Pollution Index
Policy matters this week Posted on 07 Mar, 2016 09:59 PM

New categorisation of industries

CSEB power plant in Korba (Source: IWP Flickr Photo)
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