AHMEDABAD: Even as 14 of Gujarat's 26 districts reel from a deficient monsoon, the babudom in Gandhinagar is consuming the most drinking water per capita in the country. The capital consumes 310 litres per capita per day (LPCD). Most of this water comes from the Narmada network. You'd be mistaken to assume that the bureaucrats are on hydrotherapy, it's their gardens that are to blame.

To stop this criminal waste of a precious resource, the roads and building department is setting up a water treatment plant with a capacity of 10 million litres of sewage water per day, just to supply to gardens in Gandhinagar. The plant is currently under construction, behind Infocity campus.

As many as 250 people affected by the Omkareshwar dam project have been standing in waist-deep water since Saturday night, even as the water level continues to rise.

The oustees announced their jal satyagraha protest last month at Ghogalgaon village in the East Nimar region against the Madhya Pradesh government’s decision to raise the water level in the dam from 189 to 193 metres. The 520-MW Omkareshwar project is one of the several big dams on the Narmada. The current water level is 189 metres and the protesters fear that if filled beyond that level, the dam would submerge their lands spread across several villages.

SSNNL-Sponsored Survey Flies In The Face Of State Govt’s Claims Of Drought

Gandhinagar: A just-published study, sponsored by Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Ltd (SSNNL), suggests that even the existing incomplete canal network should have considerably eased the current scarcity conditions, claimed to be prevailing in large parts of Gujarat. The study acquires significance, as it comes almost about the same time when the Gujarat government regarded “lack of rains” as the chief criterion to declare 91 out of 225 talukas as “scarcity hit”. Based on the same, the state has demanded Rs 18,000 crore from the Centre as drought relief.

Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that campaign to free state’s lifeline Narmada River from pollution will be launched with people’s cooperation.

Convener of Narmada Bachao Andolan ( NBA) Alok Agrawal has said the dams on Narmada Valley are rendering thousands of tribals, farmers and poor people homeless and the State Government is not doing

Around 27 villages of Gujarat’s Narmada and Bharuch districts have been put on alert after water from the overflowing Narmada dam resulted in the perennial river breaching the danger mark at Golden

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that 10 cusecs of water of Narmada River will be lifted from Omkareshwar Canal near Barwah and fed into Kshipra River near village Ujjaini in Indore di

Bhopal: Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan has directed to adopt e-measurement system like Water Resources Department for effective prevention of corrupt practices in construction works.

Bhopal: Above normal rains in ten districts, normal in 28 districts and below normal rains have been registered 12 districts in the state from June 1 to August 6.