Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala have opposed Feb. 2007 orders
All three appeals filed by Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala against the February 2007 final orders of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal will be listed for final hearing in the Supreme Court on March 12.
Continual poor rainfall in 2012 and 2013 is threatening to force a drinking water scarcity in Karur district. Geologists warn that groundwater level is plummeting to unprecedented danger levels in the district.
The annual average rainfall in the district is 652.20 mm, with southwest and northeast monsoon being the main contributors. However, in the last two years, the average rainfall has been below normal.
The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) personnel removed 10 jiggers and the three illegal dyeing units that were using them at Samayasangili in Pallipalayam Union, Tiruchengode Taluk, on Thursday.
“The quarry, if completed, will be a jolt to our livelihood”
A group of farmers and residents of Natham village near Thottiyam on the northern banks of the Cauvery have urged the district administration to immediately suspend the work of setting up a quarry for exploiting the sand resource in their village.
As the state battles to tackle a grim power situation, sources in the Karnataka Power Corporation Limited (KPCL) have revealed that a proposal to set up a hydel power plant at Shivanasamudra, which
Connecting Ken-Betwa To Be First Of 30 Projects Costing 5,60,000cr
New Delhi: After almost a decade of political objections and green opposition, the Cabinet is likely to clear on Thursday the ambitious project to inter-link rivers, beginning with the process of connecting the Ken and Betwa rivers in Madhya Pradesh.
The second phase of concrete-lining project of Kalingarayan Canal is at tender stage.
Civil works of the project for which the State Government has sanctioned Rs. 41 crore were likely to commence during February. The project envisages concrete lining of the canal to a distance of three miles and three furlongs over a six-month duration, official sources said.
The state, which has locked horns with Goa on sharing of Mahadayi water, is likely to file a petition before the Mahadayi Water Disputes Tribunal (MWDT), seeking interim relief.
To meet the increasing demand for drinking water for Bangalore, the State Cabinet has given the green signal to the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) to draw an additional 10 tmcft
K'taka allowed to raise Almatti dam height, but cannot use excess water
The State government is neither under illusion that it has got justice from the Krishna Water Dispute Tribunal II nor is it in victory celebration mode, the Assembly was told on Monday. On the contrary, it is planning to file a petition before the Supreme Court to review the clarificatory order of the tribunal issued last Friday.
