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Water Resources

 Water is critical to sustainable development, says UN report

Increasing ubanisation and industrialisation are widening the rift between demand for and supply of water

Publication Date: 
27/03/2015
Sushmita Sengupta
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Resources, Water Management, Water Demand, Poverty, Economic Development, Ecosystems, Sanitation, Urbanisation, Agriculture, Energy, Industry, Climate Change, Climate Adaptation, Water Supply, Drinking Water, Sustainable Development, India, Global
Water Resources

Water wealth: a briefing paper on the state of groundwater management in Bangladesh

Urban Bangladesh faces a huge water crisis. Groundwater tables are falling rapidly, centuries-old urban water bodies have disappeared or severely polluted and urban floods are a regular occurrence in the rainy season in many cities. In addition to water scarcity, water quality of major rivers and canals is under threat.

Publication Date: 
01/09/2012
Sushmita Sengupta, Amandeep Kang, Nitya Jacob
Centre for Science and Environment
Tags:
Groundwater, Water Management, CSE, Bangladesh, South Asia, Urban Water Supply, Groundwater Pollutants, Water Harvesting, Health Effects
Water Resources

 Kathmandu valley losing its ancient water wisdom

Restoring traditional water structures hold key to making the region water secure.
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Publication Date: 
25/02/2012
Sushmita Sengupta
Down to Earth
Tags:
Traditional Knowledge, Water Resources, Kathmandu, South Asia, Nepal, Urban Water Supply
Water Resources

Growth thirsty

Call it the fallout of rapid urbanisation or plain negligence of the authorities, groundwater in Dhaka is sinking at an alarming rate. According to a study by the Institute of Water Modelling in Dhaka in 2009, groundwater in the city is going down three metres every year. It has sunk by 50 metres in the past four decades and is at over 60 metres below the ground.

Publication Date: 
31/01/2011
Sushmita Sengupta
Down to Earth
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Bangladesh, Dhaka, Groundwater, Groundwater Assessment, Groundwater Recharge, Lakes, Urban Water Supply, Water Harvesting, Water Resources, Wetlands, South Asia
Water Resources

 One lake vanishes

Delhi government makes a lake and a marshland disappear the Delhi government appears to be determined to construct buildings on lakes instead of restoring them. On August 17, the government filed an affidavit in the Delhi High Court saying the Mayapuri lake and Jehangirpuri marshland are not waterbodies and can be used for development activity. The affidavit was filed in connection

Publication Date: 
14/09/2009
Sushmita Sengupta
Down to Earth
Tags:
Wetlands, Water Resources, Lakes, Public Interest Litigation (PIL), High Court, Right To Information (RTI), NGO, Delhi
Water Resources

 Water wise

A self sustained housing society, undaunted by water scarcity Come summer, several posh housing societies along Bengaluru

Publication Date: 
14/07/2009
Sushmita Sengupta
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Resources, Groundwater Recharge, Water Conservation, Urban Water Harvesting, Urban Water Supply, Sewage Treatment Plants (STP), Wastewater Recycling, Bangalore (T), Sustainable Development
Mining

 Aravallis undermined

SC mining ban alone won

Publication Date: 
14/06/2009
Sushmita Sengupta
Down to Earth
Tags:
Aravalli Range, Mining, Lakes, Badkhal, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Lake Action Plan, Remote Sensing, Supreme Court, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Haryana, Faridabad (D), Gurgaon (D), Mewat, Fly Ash
Water Resources

 Lake conservation plan flawed

Tourism is priority; not ecology as the Rajasthan government prepares to award contracts for restoring Pichola lake near Udaipur

Publication Date: 
14/06/2009
Sushmita Sengupta
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Pollution Control, Water Resources, Lakes, Pichola, Sewage Treatment Plants (STP), Lake Action Plan, Public Participation, Rajasthan, Udaipur (D)