Water Resources

Draft Model Bill for the Conservation, Protection, Regulation and Management of Ground Water , 2016

The Draft Ground Water Model Bill is based on the principles of subsidarity, equitable distribution in an integrated approach. The State should act as a public trustee of ground water, which should be treated as a common pool resource to make sure that groundwater is protected, conserved, regulated and managed.

Publication Date: 
17/05/2016
Ministry of Water Resources
Tags:
Groundwater, Groundwater Recharge, Water Harvesting, Waterlogging, India, Groundwater Irrigation, Water Management, Water Conservation
Environment

Railways earmarks special provision for environment in all projects

Giving top priority for clean environment, railways has decided to earmark one per cent of estimated cost of any project for environment works.

Publication Date: 
17/05/2016
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Environment, Rail Transport, Water Conservation, Waste Management, Air Pollution, Water Pollution, Environment Management
Water Resources

Draft National Water Framework Bill, 2016

This draft bill released by the Union government aims to provide an overarching legal framework with principles for protection, conservation, regulation and management of water as a vital and stre

Publication Date: 
16/05/2016
Ministry of Water Resources
Tags:
Water Resources, Water Management, Water Conservation, India, Water Quality, River Basin, Groundwater, Water Pricing, Water Policy, Water Disputes
Water Resources

Ujjain forest department comes up with Kshipra river conservation plan

Indore: After the success of the plantation drive in Ujjain ahead of Simhastha, the forest department of Ujjain has started making plans for next Simhatha that would be held after 12 years.

Publication Date: 
16/05/2016
Shubham Kishore
Times Of India (Indore)
Tags:
Madhya Pradesh, Rivers, Water Conservation, Ujjain (D), Water Resources
Natural Disasters

Judgement of the Supreme Court of India regarding drought like situation prevailing in many states of India, 11/05/2016

Supreme Court in this 53-page verdict delivered on May 11, 2016 pulled up the government over a lack of preparedness for the drought which struck at least 10 states across the country. The apex court ordered creating a national plan to tackle the crisis, a disaster fund and standard procedures for declaring areas drought-hit.

Judgement Date: 
11/05/2016
Tags:
Droughts, Drought Management, Drought Relief, Government Of India (GOI), Disaster Management, Natural Disasters, Food Security, Water Conservation, Water Harvesting, Supreme Court, Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Water Demand, Water Distribution
Environment

Government issues draft policy to make small buildings eco-compliant

With a majority of buildings coming up being small in size, the government has come out with a draft notification to make eco-compliance mandatory for such projects.

Publication Date: 
11/05/2016
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Green Buildings, Water Conservation, Water Harvesting, Waste Management, Energy Efficiency, LEDs, Environment Clearance (EC), Construction Industry, Groundwater Recharge, Environment
Water Resources

Research on water sources need of hour

The unavailability of water and an increasing demand have given rise to concern over an urgent need to carry out research on water and sources of water, said ecologist and researcher Dr T V Ramacha

Publication Date: 
10/05/2016
Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
Tags:
Karnataka, Water Resources, Drinking Water Scarcity, Water Conservation, Rivers
Water Resources

उत्तर प्रदेश से 68 हजार तालाब और कुएं गायब

नई दिल्ली में सूखे को लेकर बुलायी गई बैठक में प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी के सामने मुख्यमंत्री अखिलेश यादव सूबे में 78 हजार जलस्रोतों को पुनर्जीवित करने और एक लाख नये तालाब बनाने की योजना पेश कर रहे

Publication Date: 
09/05/2016
Dainik Jagran (Lucknow)
Tags:
Uttar Pradesh, Water Resources, Water Conservation, Land Encroachments, Lakes
Water Resources

Declare water emergency in country: farmers’body

Peasants’ organisation All India Kisan Mazdoor Sabha (AIKMS) demanded Central government to declare state of water emergency in the country, review implementation of water conservation and take up

Publication Date: 
09/05/2016
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Water Conservation, Drinking Water Scarcity, Water Management, Groundwater, Water Resources
Dams/ Irrigation

Co-benefits and trade-offs in the water–energy nexus of irrigation modernization in China

There are strong interdependencies between water use in agriculture and energy consumption as water saving technologies can require increased pumping and pressurizing. The Chinese Government includes water efficiency improvement and carbon intensity reduction targets in the 12th Five-Year Plan (5YP. 2011–2015), yet the links between energy use and irrigation modernization are not always addressed in policy targets. Here we build an original model of the energy embedded in water pumpingfor irrigated agriculture and its related processes.

Publication Date: 
06/05/2016
Roger Cremades, Sabrina G S A Rothausen, Declan Conway & et al
Environmental Research Letters
1-12
Tags:
Irrigation, China, Agriculture, Water Conservation, Climate Change, Climate Adaptation, Energy Efficiency, Green House Gases

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