Hydropower

Paraswani village in Balodabazar district, Chhattisgarh contains vast reserves of limestone, a sedimentary rock that is a primary ingredient in the cement manufacturing process. Since 1992, Ultratech Cement Ltd. (UTCL) followed by four other similar companies, have begun excavating this rock within a 30 km radius of the village.

Chennai rains claim 450 lives

The epic voyage--Nadisutra--along the Ganga may have been the high point of Emmanuel Theophilus’s recent work, but there have been many more peaks and valleys for this fervent mountaineer cum ecologist. Theo lives in a remote village near Munsiyari in Uttarakhand.

A water ATM, as the name implies, is a sort of a water vending machine similar to bank ATMs except that in a water ATM, money goes in to the machine in return for water. These machines, which run on a cash as well as a prepaid card or smart card system are built, owned and operated by private companies that have rights over public resources such as land and water.

Three villages displaced by Tehri dam finally recognised as revenue villages

Industries can extract groundwater only after obtaining a NOC: CGWA

Respond immediately or face closure: CPCB to non-compliant industries along the Ganga

NIH scientists to probe if Mansarovar is the source of Ganga

Centre to allow diversion of a whooping 20 sq.km. forest area for Andhra's new capital

Study shows half of Srinagar's water bodies have disappeared in the past century