Climate Change

Global-scale hydrological response to future glacier mass loss

Worldwide glacier retreat and associated future runoff changes raise major concerns over the sustainability of global water resources, but global-scale assessments of glacier decline and the resulting hydrological consequences are scarce. Here we compute global glacier runoff changes for 56 large-scale glacierized drainage basins to 2100 and analyse the glacial impact on streamflow.

Publication Date: 
22/01/2018
Matthias Huss, Regine Hock
Nature Climate Change
1-8
Tags:
Glacial Melt, Hydrology, Water Resources, Glaciers, Asia, Andes, Himalaya, Ganga, Brahmaputra, Alps, India, River Basin
Water Pollution

West Bengal rivers are not fit even for bathing, says report

A dip in the Ganges is, generally speaking, synonymous with the idea of purification.

Publication Date: 
18/01/2018
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
West Bengal, River Pollution, West Bengal Pollution Control Board, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Ganga, Mahananda, Damodar, Murshidabad
Water Pollution

West Bengal rivers are not fit even for bathing, says report

17 of them have high levels of bacteria found mainly in human faeces, it says

Publication Date: 
18/01/2018
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
West Bengal, Ganga, River Pollution, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Sewage Pollution, Birbhum, Water Pollution
Environment

2017: Air pollution, Ganga and Yamuna rejuvenation kept NGT busy

Courting controversies with orders on regulating Hindu pilgrimage to sparing none including Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's Art of Living for damaging the Yamuna floodplains, the National Green Tribunal in

Publication Date: 
01/01/2018
Financial Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Air Pollution, Ganga, Yamuna, National Green Trbunal (NGT), River Pollution, Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Environment Clearance (EC), National Green Tribunal (NGT), Environment
Water Pollution

Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India on Rejuvenation of River Ganga (Namami Gange)

The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has indicted the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), a nodal central agency to implement the government's flagship 'Namami Gange' programme, for delay in executing the Ganga cleaning projects, non-utilisation of fund meant for river cleaning and lapses in monitoring.

Publication Date: 
19/12/2017
Comptroller and Auditor General of India
Tags:
Ganga, River Pollution, Finance, Rural Sanitation, Biodiversity Conservation, Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), India
Water Pollution

Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India on Rejuvenation of River Ganga (Namami Gange)

The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has indicted the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), a nodal central agency to implement the government's flagship 'Namami Gange' programme, for delay in executing the Ganga cleaning projects, non-utilisation of fund meant for river cleaning and lapses in monitoring.

Publication Date: 
19/12/2017
Comptroller and Auditor General of India
Tags:
Ganga, River Pollution, Finance, Rural Sanitation, Biodiversity Conservation, Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), India
Water Resources

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding illegal constructions on Ganga floodplains, Uttarakhand, 18/12/2017

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Rajiv Savara Vs. Darrameks Hotels and Developers Pvt. Ltd. & Others dated 18/12/2017 regarding construction of a hotel on Ganga floodplains, Uttarakhand.

Judgement Date: 
18/12/2017
Tags:
Hotels, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Ganga
Mining

MoEF team reaches Haridwar to assess impact of mining on Ganga

HARIDWAR: Following complaint of illegal mining in the Ganga in Haridwar from Matri Sadan, the Union ministry of environment and forest resources (MoEF) has sent a team to assess the impact of mini

Publication Date: 
29/11/2017
Times Of India (Dehradun)
Tags:
Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Haridwar (D), Mining, Ganga
Water Pollution

Mass bathing in Ganga aggravates anti-microbial resistance woes

Reason behind a broad spectrum of antibiotics becoming ineffective, finds govt.-commissioned study

Publication Date: 
02/11/2017
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Ganga, Antibiotics, Indian Institute Of Technology (IIT), Drug Industry, Industrial Pollution, River Pollution, Water Pollution
Water Pollution

NGT seeks report on Ganga clean-up

Centre, U.P., Uttarakhand to respond

Publication Date: 
16/10/2017
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Ganga, National Green Trbunal (NGT), River Pollution, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Uttar Pradesh, Water Pollution

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