Rivers

Government fast-tracks green nod to Arunachal hydel project
News this week Posted on 02 Mar, 2015 09:35 PM

Government bends its own guideline, fast-tracks green nod to Arunachal hydel project

Pristine Arunachal Pradesh
Budget cuts for Water and Environment Ministry
Policy matters this week Posted on 02 Mar, 2015 09:29 PM

Union Budget 2015-16 reduces funds for Water and Environment Ministry 

Budget allocation and planning
Embankments: Engineering solutions or problems?
In his book titled 'Bandini Mahananda', Dinesh Mishra describes the vicious circle of embankments that has created more problems than solutions in Bihar. Posted on 02 Mar, 2015 05:12 PM

Mahananda, a major River of north Bihar rises in the Darjeeling district of West Bengal. It meets the Ganga after a journey of 376 km through the flat lands of Bihar, West Bengal and Bangladesh. It would spill its banks because of the flat slopes, causing deluge and waterlogging in the Katihar district of Bihar.

Floods in Bihar; Image: Usha Dewani
Environment Ministry lied to Supreme Court about the Uttarakhand dam report
Policy matters this week Posted on 24 Feb, 2015 11:08 AM

Centre presents an opposite picture in the Uttarakhand dam case

Ganga at Kaudiyala
Karnataka government exposed on Yettinahole project
News this week Posted on 24 Feb, 2015 10:40 AM

Yettinahole project called a drinking water project only to circumvent guidelines

River Netravathi (Source: SANDRP)
Mhadei Tribunal favours Goa
Policy matters this week Posted on 17 Feb, 2015 08:39 PM

Goa relieved, as tribunal restrains work on Maharashtra's Virdi dam

A dam in Maharashtra
India ranked 12th in mismanaging plastic waste
News this week Posted on 17 Feb, 2015 08:28 PM

8 million tonnes of plastic waste dumped into world's oceans in 2010: Study

Two oceans meeting at Dhanushkodi, Tamil Nadu
Rs 2000 crore action plan to restore mining ravaged areas in Karnataka
News this week Posted on 09 Feb, 2015 01:54 PM

Karnataka sets up firm to mitigate mining impacts

Coal mines in Jharsuguda
Bihar Government bans plastic packaged water bottles in all its departments
Policy matters this week Posted on 09 Feb, 2015 01:35 PM

Bihar's government offices to soon become free of plastic bottles

Plastic water bottles (Source: Pixabay.com)
Nadisutra: Patna to Maniharighat
Team father and son paddle past the ghats, see the state of the water as well as the dwindling species of fish, and learn along the way from family, friends and fisher folk. Posted on 08 Feb, 2015 03:47 PM

A dying river

Manihari Ghat
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