Yamuna
They said it!
Posted on 01 Feb, 2017 10:00 AMThe year 2016 was an abysmal year in terms of environmental policy and conservation in India.
Centre initiates moving water to concurrent list
Posted on 23 Jan, 2017 08:05 PMProcess to move water to concurrent list begins
A water worried year in a nutshell
Posted on 07 Jan, 2017 08:13 AMThe year 2016 was eventful, to say the least when it comes to the water scenario in the country. The year saw severe droughts affecting 33 crore people across 10 states.
When riverbed becomes real estate
Posted on 02 Jan, 2017 08:17 PMShalu’s household was evicted from Koyla Basti of the Yamuna pushta (embankment), a massive slum cluster on the banks of the Yamuna river in the year 2004. Earthmoving machines bulldozed thousands of homes at the site which was to host the Commonwealth Games of 2010.
SYL crisis: Punjab demands payment for water
Posted on 21 Nov, 2016 06:21 AMThree states will have to pay for water: Punjab House
Yettinahole project clearance hits a roadblock
Posted on 31 Oct, 2016 10:46 PMForest clearance to Yettinahole project gets challenged
Art of Living guilty of damaging Yamuna floodplains
Posted on 16 Aug, 2016 09:57 AMWorld Culture Festival damaged Yamuna floodplains, concludes NGT
UP unable to protect Yamuna, Taj Mahal: NGT
Posted on 08 Aug, 2016 11:37 PMNGT raps UP government over Yamuna's pollution near the Taj Mahal
Riverbed off limits, farmers fume
Posted on 01 Aug, 2016 08:23 PMChampa Devi has been working as a sharecropper on a two-acre farm at Nilothi village in west Delhi. Until a few years ago, the water she used for irrigation came from the Najafgarh drain that empties into the Yamuna river. This form of cultivation using waste water was a norm in the area till sometime ago.
Once a drain, now a sewer
Posted on 05 Jul, 2016 09:33 PMOriginally a darya (creek), locally known as Nizammuddin darya, Barapullah is a key drain of Delhi today. Barapullah gets its name from a pul (bridge) built across it by the then emperor Jahangir's chief eunuch, Mihir Banu Agha.