The National Green Tribunal (NGT), Eastern Zone Bench, on Monday, directed the chief secretary to file a report on the arsenic situation in West Bengal.

The resource being exploited for drinking, irrigation and industrial purposes

The Rajasthan River Basin and Water Resources Planning Authority (RRBWRPA), tasked with the responsibility of reviving the mythical Saraswati river is likely to submit its report to the state gover

Even as rainwater harvesting strategy in urban areas has gone haywire due to its slipshod implementation, Lord Jagannath seems to have borne the brunt of adverse impacts of depleting groundwater ta

The groundwater monitoring data of Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) for pre-monsoon 2014, compared with decadal mean of pre-monsoon (2004-2013), indicates that 71 per cent wells in Jharkhand show

With the groundwater level in Noida and Greater Noida depleting by over one metre a year as per the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB), the authorities have started a crackdown on illegal extraction

Panjab University (PU)’s rainwater harvesting project, which was held up due to financial constraints, is expected to be functional this monsoon.

Activists claim nearly 1,000 such plants operate in the area.

The report of the Central Groundwater Board (CGWB) said that as many as 31% of the wells analysed in Maharashtra in November 2014 had water levels a good 5 to 10 metres below the surface.

CHANDIGARH: As currently, the scarcity of potable water remains one of the major problems in the city, mainly during the summer season, the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) reveals a shocking fact