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September 9, 2022
Creating jobs while managing air quality
Highlights from a new report released by iFOREST
An old coal-fired power plant has been dumping vast quantities of ash out in the open for many years. (Image: Lundrim Aliu/ World Bank; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
December 6, 2019
Holistic approach needed to clean the Ganga
A report by the India Rivers Forum highlights the need to focus further than the main stem of the Ganga river.
Distant snow clad mountains, the smaller hills and the Ganga river (Image: Srimoyee Banerjee, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0)
December 2, 2019
Water stewardship approach to minimizing risks for businesses
Water stewardship is an approach predicated on the concept that water is a shared resource and so water risks are also shared risks that everyone in a catchment will face
Picture credit: Romit Sen
December 2, 2019
Wind energy development and policy in India
A study highlights the barriers to harnessing India's potential for wind energy.
Windmills in Karnataka, India. Picture credit: India Water Portal
November 18, 2019
Free septic tank cleaning in Delhi; CM attempts to reduce sewer deaths
Policy matters this week
Image credit: Sharada Prasad
November 14, 2019
Climate change may reduce water available to cool power plants
A study finds that India may run out of water to cool power plants in the near future.
Tuticorin power plant in Tamil Nadu (Image: Ram Kumar, Wikimedia Commons; CC BY-SA 2.0)
Kerala's bill to penalise Coke - Relief and compensation for Plachimada factory victims
The Kerala government's decision to bring in a bill: Plachimada Coca-Cola Victims — Relief and Compensation Claims Special Tribunal in the State Assembly yesterday is certainly an epic decision.
Devinder Sharma
Posted on 01 Mar, 2011 02:39 PM

 'The Bill proposes to get compensation from the company and to form a tribunal to provide time-bound compensation. The tribunal is to have a chairman, a technical member and an administrative member'.
Open letter to Jairam Ramesh on POSCO project approval from the Mining Zone People's Solidarity Group
We are writing to publicly challenge your shocking decision to grant a “conditional” and yet also “final” approval to the POSCO project..
Mining Zone
Posted on 28 Feb, 2011 01:45 PM

 
"The continuing farce called conditional clearances" - Dams, Rivers and People
The SANDRP newsletter, February 2011
South Asia Network on Dams Rivers and People (SANDRP)
Posted on 24 Feb, 2011 10:55 AM

Dams, Rivers & People
POSCO unplugged - Villagers of Jagatsinghpur, Odisha, have no choice
Sayantan Bera travels to Jagatsinghpur in Odisha to find that villagers labeled ‘pro’ POSCO do not have a choice otherwise
Sayantan Bera
Posted on 14 Feb, 2011 11:38 AM


Non-compliance of dam agencies in construction of hydro-electric projects in Himachal Pradesh - A photo-essay by SANDRP
This photo essay by SANDRP shows the violations of environment norms by 4 large Hydro-electric projects in Himachal Pradesh, regarding muck disposal and freshwater flows in rivers.
Himanshu Thakkar
Posted on 13 Feb, 2011 03:02 PM

 

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Defect in water rate amendment notification issued on 01/10/2010 by Orissa Government
Legal Aspects of Water Rate / Licence Fees charged by the State Government of Orissa for Industrial / Commercial use of Ground Water
Emami paper mills limited
Posted on 08 Feb, 2011 03:40 PM


An insight on legal aspect of groundwater use by industries and water tax/rate/fee by Emami Paper Mills Limited
Groundwater is water that is found underground in the cracks and spaces in soil, sand and rock.
Emami paper mills limited
Posted on 07 Feb, 2011 06:03 PM
  1. Meaning of Ground Water
  • Water located beneath the ground surface.

 Groundwater is stored in and moves slowly through layers of soil, sand and rocks called aquifers. Aquifers typically consist of gravel, sand, sandstone, or fractured rock, like limestone.
Corruption has fuelled India's economic growth - OneWorld South Asia interview with Devinder Sharma
Devinder Sharma talks about the pressing farm crisis, the next steps for MGNREGA and howrampant corruption has fuelled India's economic growth.
Devinder Sharma
Posted on 01 Feb, 2011 05:18 PM


Devinder Sharma

Towards ruin: Regularisation rather than regulation has become the norm in our coastal policy at present, which is actively undoing one of India’s most significant environmental regulations - Claude Alvares
Claude Alvare provides a stinging critique of the way the present dispensation is actively undoing one of India’s most significant environment regulations.
Claude Alvares
Posted on 21 Jan, 2011 03:58 PM


MV River Princess Stranded for 10 years now, the grounded ship has been wreaking ecological havoc on Candolim beach in Goa

MV River Princess Stranded for 10 years now, the grounded ship has been wreaking ecological havoc on Candolim beach in Goa

Indira Gandhi’s concerns about protecting the ecology of India’s coasts, which held sway for almost 20 years, are being subverted under a regime supervised by her daughter-in-law and grandson.

Booklets on water quality, river pollution and rainwater harvesting by Janhit Foundation
The three booklets discuss the issues of water quality, river pollution, and rainwater harvesting, in detail.
Janhit Foundation
Posted on 18 Jan, 2011 04:16 PM

The three booklets discuss the issues of water quality, river pollution, and rainwater harvesting, in detail.
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