Godavari

Dip in Godavari river turns harmful

The study also showed that the presence of faecal matter and solid waste that found its way into the river after holy dips.

Publication Date:

08/05/2018

Source: Deccan Chronicle (Telangana)

Tags:

Telangana, Godavari, River Pollution, Environmentalists, Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD), Water Pollution

Environment

Pharma city near Hyderabad will not cause pollution: KTR

HYDERABAD: Industries minister KT Rama Rao on Saturday sought help of the scientific community to talk to farmers and explain to them that the proposed world’s largest pharma city near Hyderabad wi

Publication Date:

30/04/2018

Source: Times Of India (Hyderabad)

Tags:

Telangana, Industrial Pollution, Chemical Industry, Drug Industry, Industrial Waste, Godavari, Environment

Water Resources

Maharashtra accepts report suggesting autonomy to water resources authority

Convert irrigation development corporations into river basin agencies: report

Publication Date:

09/04/2018

Source: Hindu (New Delhi)

Tags:

Maharashtra, Godavari, Irrigation, Water Management, Water Resources

Water Resources

Tamil Nadu will get 175tmc of water from Godavari river, Gadkari says

TUTICORIN: A detailed project report (DPR) is being prepared to divert a portion of excess water from the Godavari river to Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Rayalaseema region, Union minis

Publication Date:

27/02/2018

Source: Times Of India (Chennai)

Tags:

Tamil Nadu, Godavari, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Farmers, Ministry Of Water Resources, Water Supply, Water Resources

Dams/ Irrigation

Order of the Supreme Court of India regarding construction of the Polavaram project on the river Godavari, 15/02/2018

Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of State of Orissa Vs State of Andhra Pradesh dated 15/02/2018 regarding construction of the Polavaram project (known as Indira Sagar Project) on the river Godavari at Polavaram.

Judgement Date:

15/02/2018

Tags:

Polavaram, Godavari, Dams, Supreme Court, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa (Odisha), Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Telangana, Karnataka, Water Disputes

Water Resources

Global models underestimate large decadal declining and rising water storage trends relative to GRACE satellite data

We increasingly rely on global models to project impacts of humans and climate on water resources. How reliable are these models? While past model intercomparison projects focused on water fluxes, we provide here the first comprehensive comparison of land total water storage trends from seven global models to trends from Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites, which have been likened to giant weighing scales in the sky.

Publication Date:

22/01/2018

Author(s): Bridget R. Scanlon, Zizhan Zhang, Himanshu Save & et al

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

pp:

1-10

Tags:

Water Resources, Remote Sensing, Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Hydrology, Statistics, River Basin, Godavari, India, Yangtze-kiang, China, Dams, Reservoirs

Environment

Standing panel will initiate steps to protect environment’, says forest chairperson Renuka Chowdhary

KHAMMAM: Stressing the need to protect the environment, the Parliamentary standing committee on environment and forest chairperson Renuka Chowdhary said that there was a need to protect the environ

Publication Date:

29/08/2017

Source: New Indian Express (Hyderabad)

Tags:

Telangana, Ecosystems, Environmental Security, Godavari, Granite, Environment

Mining