Mining

NGT directs Bihar govt to constitute team to check illegal sand mining in Son, Ganga

The National Green Tribunal has directed the Bihar government to constitute a team to check illegal sand mining being carried out during the Monsoon season in Son and Ganga rivers at Koilwar and Pa

Publication Date: 
30/08/2018
Times Of India (Patna)
Tags:
Bihar, Sand, Mining, Ganga, National Green Trbunal (NGT), Minor Minerals
Industry

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding a slaughter house operating in violation of environmental laws, Muzaffar Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, 24/08/2018

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Tanseer Ahmad Vs. M/s Alnoor Exports & Others dated 24/08/2018 regarding a slaughter house and meat processing unit in Muzaffar Nagar, Uttar Pradesh operating in violation of environmental laws. According to the Applicant the unit is emitting foul smell and discharging animal wastes into the drain in the area. It has not installed antipollution device for treatment of the effluents. The permitted land use, as per Master Plan, is for agriculture. The said unit is also extracting ground water illegally.

Judgement Date: 
24/08/2018
Tags:
Slaughter House, Slaughter Waste, Muzaffarnagar (T), Uttar Pradesh, Ganga, River Pollution, Waste Disposal, Groundwater Pollution
Water Resources

Groundwater depletion causing reduction of baseflow triggering Ganges river summer drying

In summer (pre-monsoon) of recent years, low water level among the last few decades, has been observed in several lower Indian reaches of the Ganges (or Ganga) river (with estimated river water level depletion rates at the range of −0.5 to −38.1 cm/year between summers of 1999 and 2013 in the studied reaches).

Publication Date: 
13/08/2018
Abhijit Mukherjee, Soumendra Nath Bhanja, Yoshihide Wada
Scientific Reports
8
12049
1-9
Tags:
Groundwater, Ganga, Rivers, Hydrology, River Pollution, Waste Disposal, Sewage Pollution, Monsoons, Rainfall Pattern, Glacial Melt
Water Pollution

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding pollution of river Ganga, 06/08/2018

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of M. C. Mehta Vs Union of India & Others dated 06/08/2018 regarding pollution of river Ganga.

Judgement Date: 
06/08/2018
Tags:
Ganga, River Pollution, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, Sewage Pollution, Industrial Pollution, Waste Disposal, Water Act 1974, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Uttar Pradesh, Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP), Kanpur, Municipal Corporations
Sanitation

Why sanitation is not only why India needs a Swachh Kumbh

The Kumbh Mela 2019, to be organized in Allahabad at the famed confluence of rivers Ganga, Yamuna and fabled Saraswati, shall be the largest ever religious congregation spread over almost 45 days (

Publication Date: 
06/08/2018
Times of India (Lucknow)
Tags:
Uttar Pradesh, Sanitation, Ganga, Yamuna, Kumbh Mela
Water Pollution

Nowhere in world has such a comprehensive plan been made to clean a river: Uma Bharti on Namami Gange

Haridwar: Union minister for drinking water and sanitation Uma Bharati who was in Haridwar on Saturday refuted allegations that the Ganga cleaning work under the Namami Gange mission was moving at

Publication Date: 
06/08/2018
Times Of India (Dehradun)
Tags:
Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Ganga, River Pollution, Monsoons, Water Pollution
Water Pollution

Speed up work on Namami Gange projects: Gadkari

Expressing concern overthe delay in the completion of projects relating to the Namami Gange mission in Uttarakhand at a review meeting here, Union Water Resources Minister Nitin Gadkari instructed

Publication Date: 
01/08/2018
Tribune (New Delhi)
Tags:
Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Ganga, Sewage Treatment Plants (STP), River Pollution, Water Pollution
Climate Change

Future climate and runoff projections across South Asia from CMIP5 global climate models and hydrological modelling

This paper presents future climate and runoff projections for the South Asia region under the RCP8.5 scenario with climate change informed by 42 CMIP5 GCMs. Runoff is projected for 0.5° grids using hydrological models with future climate inputs obtained by empirically scaling the historical climate series.

Original Source

Publication Date: 
01/08/2018
Hongxing Zheng, Francis H..Chiew, Steve Charles & et al
Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies
18
92-109
Tags:
Climate Change, South Asia, Hydrology, Rainfall Pattern, India, Climate Impacts, Indus, Brahmaputra, Ganga, Kosi, Brahmani, Baitarni, Extreme Weather Events
Water Pollution

German bank to give aid for cleaning Ganga

German Development Bank will provide financial assistance of Rs 960 crore for clean drinking water and cleaning of the Ganga a memorandum of which is likely to be signed in December this year.

Publication Date: 
19/07/2018
Tribune (New Delhi)
Tags:
Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Ganga, River Pollution, Sewage Treatment Plants (STP), Water Pollution
Water Pollution

Condition of Ganga is critical, says ‘waterman’ Rajendra Singh

The condition of river Ganga is critical and no new rejuvenation work has started along the stretch from Haridwar to Ganga Sagar under the four year rule of the present dispensation, noted water co

Publication Date: 
06/07/2018
Financial Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Haridwar (D), Ganga, River Pollution, Water Pollution

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