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Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of  Khem Chand Vs State of Uttar Pradesh dated 03/01/2023.

The matter is related to illegal extraction of groundwater through submersible pump for sale in Ghaziabad area of Uttar Pradesh. The area is already in the category of “over exploited area” and thereby not only contaminating groundwater but also creating scarcity in the availability of drinking water to the local residents, the application filed by Khem Chand, an advocate by profession read.

This volume assesses the nexus of gender and transboundary water governance, containing empirical case studies, discourse analyses, practitioners’ accounts, and theoretical refections. Transboundary water governance exists at the intersection of two highly masculinised felds: diplomacy and water resources management.

Access to safe water and adequate sanitation is a basic human right. While progress has been made towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goal on water and sanitation (SDG 6), the trends and current status of access to water and sanitation provide cause for concern.

In 2022, South Sudan was ranked as the world’s most vulnerable country to climate change and the one most lacking in coping capacity. South Sudan is also one of the world’s most politically fragile countries.

Ground Water Year Book is prepared annually by CGWB depicting changes in ground water regime of the country through different seasons. It is an effort to obtain information on ground water levels through representative monitoring wells. The important attributes of ground water regime monitoring are ground water level.

Reply filed by the Haryana Shehri Vikas Pradhikaran in the matter of Brigadier Paramjit Singh & Others Vs State of Haryana & Others dated 30/12/2022.

An application filed before the NGT sought restoration of water body (Johad) and greenbelt area surrounding the water body and "to set aside and declare the notification for e-auction initiated by Haryana Shehri Vikas Pradhikaran as illegal".

Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of the State of Tamil Nadu Vs the State of Karnataka & Others dated 14/12/2022.

Order of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of Sarang Yadvadkar & Others Vs The State of Maharashtra dated 08/12/2022.

Two weeks time has been granted to the Irrigation Department, Pune to file an affidavit on why in ten districts of Maharashtra the work of marking blue line and red line has not been done and why their names are missing from the list of cities identified as highly flood flow areas.

The application was filed by Sarang Yadwadkar, April 14, 2022.

The world is facing challenges related to population growth, surface water scarcity, and more importantly, to the increasing dependency on shared groundwater resources.

Most of the globe was drier than normal in 2021, with “cascading effects on economies, ecosystems and our daily lives”, the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said in this report.

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