Seriously concerned over the rapid depletion of the ground water-table, the state government has come up with a plan of harvesting rain water through a large number of pits and tanks at a number of

Melbourne Water has confirmed that it tests reservoirs for contamination every month, including checks for the giardia and cryptosporidium parasites that have crippled Sydney's supply

Faced with energy shortage, the government is pressing ahead with 12 major hydel projects. The projects are all scheduled to be completed by 2002.The National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC),

The long-running water cess controversy may snowball into a major conflagration with the Central Government on the one side and the Himachal, Punjab and Haryana regimes on the other. The latest move

The Ministry of Power has given the go-ahead to two hydro-electric power projects with an initial allocation of Rs 33.54 crores as budgetary support for the power plants. The projects given the

Gujarat Chief Minister Keshubhai Patel has warned that the State Government might be forced to take the team from the World Commission on Dams (WCD) into custody if its visit creates law and order

The Ministry of Rural Areas and Employment has issued new guidelines for submission projects under the Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission (RGNDWM) seeking to speed up the provision of

While the Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) canal still remains an abandoned child, Punjab has conceived the Dasmesh irrigation project. This is not entirely a new conception. It is a revised, renamed and

The West Bengal state government today decided to explore possibilities of recycling stagnant flood waters in Malda and Murshidabad to cope with the drinking water crisis in the two districts.

The rainy summer is over and with less precipitation South Korea's rivers will rapidly deteriorate in the dry season with pollutants flowing in from industrial facilities. Protecting the Han and