There are 12 "hot spots" in eight States where river water was found to be contaminated.

State-promoted Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Ltd (SSNNL), which runs the hydroelectricity generation plant on the river Narmada in Gujarat, has been awarded the Fifth Enertia Award-2011 under the hy

GANDHINAGAR: Gujarat government is seriously considering a proposal to make water meters compulsory in homes within the state's urban local bodies' limits (ULBs).

GANDHINAGAR: Finally, there is some light at the end of the tunnel.

Bhopal : State Government has refused to give grants to Municipal Corporation to carry out the additional expenditures of Narmada Project.

Gandhinagar: Water woes in the Petroleum Chemical and Petrochemical Investment Region (PCPIR), an important industrial hotspot along Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor, may come to an end soon.
The PCPIR, coming up over 480 sq km in the Dahej-Bharuch region, will get a two-km-long weir off the mouth of Narmada river at Bharbhut, next to the Gulf of Khambhat, for storing sweet water coming from Narmada dam.

The Rajasthan Government's Irrigation Department has created additional irrigation facilities in an area measuring 35,906 hectares across the State at a cost of Rs.490 crore during the current financial year.

AHMEDABAD: Scanty rainfall has reduced the water stock in dams which have 255 million cubic metre (mcm) less water compared to last year.

Officials said that less rains in the past fortnight completely changed the water levels in the dams. On July 20, the state had 12% more water compared to last year. On Monday, dams reported 1.12% less water than August 8, 2010. Officials said that the situation was such that the agricultural department was even forced to release some water for irrigation. Citing example of north Gujarat, he said that on August 7, 2011, there was 299.16 mcm, but on August 8 about 0.16 mcm water was released from the dams for irrigation.

The book gives a comprehensive account of the pre and post independence activities regarding the Narmada Valley development till 2011