This paper presents a comprehensive assessment of the water storage properties of glaciers and seasonal snow, carried out for the first time at a major river basin scale, for the Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra, Amu Darya, Syr Darya and Mekong basins.

The Centre’s ambitious move to set up a national-level body for integrated development of river basins is facing stiff resistance from various states.

This Scheme may be called the Cauvery Water (Implementation of the Order of 2007) Scheme, 2013. It shall come into force on the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Akash Vashishtha & Anr. Vs Union of India & Ors regarding unauthorized and illegal constructions raised on the flood plain of river Yamuna dated 20/05/2013.

DIGBOI: A discussion on the topic ‘Adapting to Environmental and Climate Change in the Eastern Brahmaputra River Basin: Priorities for Research, Advocacy and Intervention’ has been successfully hel

Kochi: World Wildlife Fund (WWF) India has shown willingness to collaborate with Kerala to evolve and execute an integrated river basin programme for the state to address its twin requirements of making water available throughout the year and conserving the rivers and nature.

WWF India CEO Ravi Singh and other senior officials already held talks with the top officials of the State Planning Board and other departments early this week. “Our input will be primarily in terms of the expertise we have acquired during the implementation of similar programmes in India and abroad. We don’t want to involve in the programmes as consultants or funding agency,’’ Ravi Singh told TOI here over phone from New Delhi.

This draft bill by the Ministry of Water Resources is to establish a framework with governing principles for protection, conservation and regulation of waters and for matters connected therewith and incidental thereto.

According to this policy released by the government, all water data maintained by the Central Water Commission and the Central Ground Water Board will be made available in the public domain.

After delinking the environment and forest clearances for highway projects, the environment ministry is mulling over a proposal to relax clearance norms for hydro-power projects.

The ministry is considering a proposal that allows hydro-power projects to initiate the forest clearance process without even completing comprehensive river basin study.

The evolution of land–atmosphere–ocean models has resulted in the need for hydrologic models applicable to large areas and river basins. Such developments offer new challenges and opportunities for hydrologists to understand the hydrologic response of areas as large as continents. In the present study, the ability of variable infiltration capacity (VIC) hydrological model has been studied to assess run-off potential and other hydrological components for entire India.

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