Water Disputes

Recipe For War: Remove Water and Food, Add Ethnic Strife—Then Stir

Climate change hasn’t driven humans to kill each other yet, but we’re getting closer.

Publication Date:

27/07/2016

Source: Bloomberg

Tags:

Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Conflicts, Water Disputes, Water Supply, Food Security, Global Warming, Green House Gases

Water Resources

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Interlinking of Rivers, 21/07/2016

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Interlinking of Rivers, 21/07/2016. The inter-basin transfer of water, through interlinking of rivers (ILR), is considered to be essential for addressing the twin problems of water scarcity and floods.

Publication Date:

21/07/2016

Source: Lok Sabha

Tags:

River Linking, Rivers, Water Disputes, Interstate Disputes, India, Parliament

Water Resources

AP, Telangana fight over Krishna waters

AP sought the release of Krishna waters from Nagarjunasagar for the Krishna Pushkaralu.

Publication Date:

21/07/2016

Source: Deccan Chronicle (Telangana)

Tags:

Telangana, Krishna, Andhra Pradesh, Water Disputes, Drinking Water, Ministry Of Water Resources, Water Resources

Water Supply

Tanzania: Advanced Technology Cut-Down Water Conflicts in Pangani Basin

THE introduction of high tech equipment for monitoring and modelling water resources in Pangani Basin has helped to reduce conflicts related to water allocation and improved the management of the r

Publication Date:

21/07/2016

Source: All Africa

Tags:

Water Supply, Drinking Water, Water Disputes, Conflicts, Tanzania, Water Management, Africa

Environment

Karnataka destroying Western Ghats, Goa CM writes to Modi

Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar has requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to look into what he said was "massive destruction" of the Western Ghats by neighbouring Karnataka, especially in an

Publication Date:

20/07/2016

Source: Times Of India (Goa)

Tags:

Goa, Western Ghats, Karnataka, Eco-Sensitive Zone, Environment Act 1986, Environmental Security, Rivers, Water Disputes, Environment

Water Resources

Draft National Water Framework Bill, 2016

An Act to provide an overarching national legal framework with principles for protection, conservation, regulation and management of water as a vital and stressed natural resource, under which legislation and executive action on water at all levels of governance, as also water-use and water-related actions by persons and their associations, publ

Publication Date:

18/07/2016

Source: Ministry of Water Resources

Tags:

Water Resources, Water Management, Water Conservation, Water Quality, River Basin, Water Disputes, Groundwater, Water Pricing

Water Supply

Murders, violence on rise as parched central India battles for water

Imrat Namdev and her younger sister Pushpa Namdev were neighbors in Chhatarpur district, in the drought-hit Indian region of Bundelkhand.

Publication Date:

30/06/2016

Source: Planet Ark (Australia)

Tags:

Water Supply, Drinking Water Scarcity, Water Disputes, India, Conflicts, Droughts, Reservoirs, Bundelkhand, Rainfall, Uttar Pradesh

Water Resources

Centre sets up panel on water sharing row

Hyderabad: The Union water resources ministry on Thursday announced a committee comprising engineers from the Central Water Commission (CWC) to study the contentious issue of water sharing between

Publication Date:

24/06/2016

Source: Times Of India (Hyderabad)

Tags:

Telangana, Krishna, Andhra Pradesh, Water Disputes, Central Water Commission (CWC), Godavari, Water Resources

Water Resources