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  • Monitoring guidelines for sand mining released
    Guidelines to monitor illegal sand mining released For the first time, the Environment Ministry has released Enforcement and Monitoring Guidelines for Sand Mining 2020 to monitor and check illegal sand mining in the country. The guidelines include directions to states to carry out river audits, ...
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  • Increased river traffic threatens Gangetic dolphins
    Gangetic dolphins under threat thanks to increased river traffic Despite concerted efforts by various agencies to save the Gangetic dolphins, several factors, including poaching for oil, river pollution and increased traffic in water bodies, continue to pose grave threat to the species. Accord...
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  • Cauvery riverfront development plan gets an approval
    Cauvery riverfront development plan gets a nod The high-powered expert committee of the Smart Cities Mission programme has given its approval to the Trichy Corporation for developing and beautifying a portion of the Cauvery river bank in the city. At an estimated cost of Rs 2.94 crore, the civic bo...
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  • Godavari, Krishna rivers will not be linked
    Andhra Pradesh and Telangana shelve plan to link Godavari and Krishna rivers The governments of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana have shelved the project to inter-link Godavari and Krishna rivers that was expected to benefit drought-prone areas in the two states. The reason behind this is Andhra govern...
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  • India's composite score improves in SDG index with major success in water and sanitation
    Sustainable development goals index 2019-20: India's composite score improvesThe list of states that have topped in the sustainable development goals index 2019-20 are Kerala, Himachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Telangana. Also, the index revealed that Uttar Pradesh, Odisha and Sikkim h...
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  • Parliamentary committee expresses disappointment over slow pace of Namami Gange
    Panel expresses displeasure over slow pace of Namami Gange In its latest report, the parliamentary committee has expressed its disappointment over the pace of flagship projects like Namami Gange programme and urged the Jal Shakti ministry to step up its performance on groundwater management, aquife...
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  • Holistic approach needed to clean the Ganga
    The National Mission for Cleaning Ganga was set up in 2014 and the Namami Gange programme was launched the year after, with a budget outlay of Rs. 20,000 crore. The implementation of the flagship programme was followed by the framing of a draft National River Ganga (Rejuvenation, Protection and Mana...
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  • 40 percent of rural households in India lack access to drinking water
    NSS finds only 58.2 percent of rural households have drinking water facilities within premises The National Sample Survey (NSS) conducted between July and December 2018 reveals that only 58.2 percent of rural households in India have drinking water facilities within the premises. In urban areas, th...
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  • Free septic tank cleaning in Delhi; CM attempts to reduce sewer deaths
    Delhi CM announces free sewage cleaning schemes for unauthorised colonies In an effort to end sewer deaths, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has announced a scheme for free cleaning of the septic tanks in unauthorised colonies in the capital. Under the new scheme, any person can make ...
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  • NGT pushes to ban RO purifiers for water with TDS below 500 mg/l
    NGT pushes MoEF to issue notification to ban unnecessary use of RO purifiers The National Green Tribunal has reprimanded the Environment Ministry for delaying a notification to ban RO purifiers where total dissolved solids (TDS) in water are below 500 milligrams per litre. The NGT also warned the ...
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  • Arrival of northeast monsoon & retreat of southwest monsoon coincides this year; Salt lake and several metro cities shrinking at alarming pace
    Soon a national framework for e-flows in all major rivers To ensure minimum and uninterrupted flow of water round-the-year in rivers across the country, the government is working to have a national framework for implementation and monitoring of e-flows (environmental flows) in all major rivers. The...
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  • In conversation with K. J. Joy of SOPPECOM
    To many in the water sector, K. J. Joy needs no introduction. An activist at heart, Joy is known for his untiring rights based work in mobilising communities in rural Maharashtra, and for his research work on water and water related conflicts including inter-state riparian water conflicts. In a con...
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  • SC stops further cutting of trees at Aarey; Idol immersion in Ganges to attract fine of Rs. 50,000; Household appliances to be rated on water consumption efficiency
    SC comes to the rescue of Aarey trees in Mumbai Last week the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (MMRCL) started axing trees at Aarey colony in Mumbai where the car shed for the Metro III project has to come up. Several activists who protested against the tree felling were jailed by the Mumbai Polic...
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  • Towards a new horizontal water federalism
    The execution of India’s institutional framework for preventing and solving conflicts over river water is still evolving. A new thinking on federalism in the field of water management to meet local aspirations and national ambition is needed. A one-day conference 'Towards water federalism 2.0 - Pe...
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  • Centre all set to sustain country's ODF status
    National rural sanitation strategy launched to sustain open defecation-free (ODF) status  The Jal Shakti Ministry has come up with a 10-year national rural sanitation strategy to sustain India’s 100 percent Open Defecation Free (ODF) status claimed by the Centre. The focus of the strategy is...
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  • River as a cultural mosaic
    "River conversations are critical to re-evaluate histories, reconnect civilisations, cultures and peoples, ideas and regions and open streams of thought for a future with exciting possibilities," says Kishalay Bhattacharjee, Associate Professor and Vice Dean, Jindal School of Journalism and Communic...
    Amita Bhaduriposted 4 months 2 weeks agoread more
  • Water levels in major reservoirs rise to 85 percent of overall capacity: CWC
    Reservoir levels increase to 85 percent of overall capacity this year According to the latest report of the Central Water Commission (CWC), the live storage available in the 113 reservoirs monitored by it, is 85 percent of the total live storage capacity of these reservoirs. The storage is around 2...
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  • Stop farming on Yamuna floodplains by 2020: NGT to DDA
    NGT orders DDA to ensure farming on the Yamuna floodplains is stopped by 2020 The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has ordered the Delhi Development Authority to ensure that farming of fruit and vegetables on the Yamuna floodplains is stopped and the area is restored into a biodiversity area. The trib...
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  • 100 wetlands identified for restoration in next five years
    Government identifies 100 wetlands for restoration in next five years At the 14th session of the Conference of Parties (COP 14) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), the Environment Ministry identified more than 100 wetlands for restoration in the next five years&...
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  • Thousands ignored while Sardar Sarovar dam fills to capacity
    Sardar Sarovar dam fills up while ignoring thousands in submergence area As the rains arrived this year, the central government decided to fill up the Sardar Sarovar dam to its full height of 139 m for the first time since its construction was completed in 2017. The government has claimed since 201...
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Posted Date : Wed, 2020-01-29 23:39
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Guidelines to monitor illegal sand mining released

For the first time, the Environment Ministry has released Enforcement and Monitoring Guidelines for Sand Mining 2020 to monitor and check illegal sand mining in the country.

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Posted Date : Wed, 2020-01-22 20:57
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Gangetic dolphins under threat thanks to increased river traffic

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Posted Date : Wed, 2020-01-22 20:41
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Cauvery riverfront development plan gets a nod

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Posted Date : Fri, 2020-01-10 11:13
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Andhra Pradesh and Telangana shelve plan to link Godavari and Krishna rivers

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Posted Date : Thu, 2020-01-02 10:46
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Sustainable development goals index 2019-20: India's composite score improves

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Posted Date : Thu, 2019-12-19 10:31
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Panel expresses displeasure over slow pace of Namami Gange

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Posted Date : Fri, 2019-12-06 10:39
A report by the India Rivers Forum highlights the need to focus further than the main stem of the Ganga river.

The National Mission for Cleaning Ganga was set up in 2014 and the Namami Gange programme was launched the year after, with a budget outlay of Rs. 20,000 crore. The implementation of the flagship programme was followed by the framing of a draft National River Ganga (Rejuvenation, Protection and Management) Bill, 2019 to be introduced in the winter session of Parliament.

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Posted Date : Wed, 2019-11-27 04:37
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NSS finds only 58.2 percent of rural households have drinking water facilities within premises

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Posted Date : Mon, 2019-11-18 19:59
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Delhi CM announces free sewage cleaning schemes for unauthorised colonies

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Posted Date : Wed, 2019-11-13 10:45
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NGT pushes MoEF to issue notification to ban unnecessary use of RO purifiers

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Tangled bones, children unable to move and lives cut short
The need for decentralised governance to deal with the current groundwater crisis (Image Source: ACWADAM)
Monday, 17 February 2020 17:43
Decentralised groundwater governance to deal with the groundwater crisis
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