'Maha' dispute over the Mahanadi

The plans of both Odisha and Chhattisgarh to usurp water of the Mahanadi river have reached ridiculous levels

Kerala floods: Death toll touches 370

The IMD says the rainfall density is expected to reduce majorly in the next 2-3 days

Cape Town will not run out of water this year

The announcement has been made keeping in mind the May-September winter rainy season

Three villages get land rights 38 years after being displaced by Tehri dam

The villages are now officially recognised and have been renamed as Tehri Bhagirathi Nagar, Ghonti Village and Chhaam

Anti-Chandil dam activists challenge Land Acquisition Act

Bangladesh damns Indian dam

A proposed Indian dam releases a flood of protests in Bangladesh

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Cyclone rains may lead to floods from Hirakud

Activists say water level in dam reservoir dangerously high even after letting out water through sluice gates

Narmada authority slammed for shoddy canal work, ordered to compensate farmers for losses

Madhya Pradesh High Court says farmers impacted by incomplete canal works of Omkareshwar and Indira Sagar dams should be compensated according to …

Delhi to reuse 80 per cent sewage by 2027

With no new dams in sight, the draft Delhi Water Policy, 2013 calls for reuse of treated sewage to achieve water security in the capital

Live storage at 64% capacity in 123 reservoirs

5 of 36 dams in south India are 100 per cent full and need close monitoring

Reservoir levels rise after rains, but fail to cross normal storage mark in many states

At least 10 states still hold water below their normal storage levels

How we source water for cities: Lessons Tehri taught

A look at how complex the ecological and social consequences of our urban water management can be

Ensure development doesn’t go against the flow of Himachal rivers, activists ask govt

Activists staged a dharna and sent a 10-point memorandum to the CM demanding clean and free-flowing Himalayan rivers

'Large hydropower projects are not safe'

Experts discuss about the negative impacts of building large dams

Andhra Pradesh chief minister links Krishna, Godavari rivers

Around 80 TMCs of Godavari water were released into the Krishna for diversion to the drought-prone areas of the Rayalseema region

How and when to displace

THE DAM AND THE NATION DISPLACEMENT AND RESETTLEMENT IN THE NARMADA VALLEY·Jean Dreze, Meera Samson and Satyajit Singh·Oxford …

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United effort

To halt dam-linked dislocation

At least 24 out of India’s 123 reservoirs are full: Central Water Commission

Situation precarious for Karnataka and Maharashtra, where ‘heavy’ to ‘very heavy’ rainfall is predicted in some parts;…

India’s reservoirs now have 155% more water than last yr

Live storage in 123 reservoirs is at 66.372 billion cubic metres (BCM) or 39 per cent of total live storage capacity

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सरदार सरोवर बांध परियोजना के कारण डूब प्रभावित क्षेत्रों के 65 गांवों का अब तक पुनर्वास नहीं किया गया है

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जर्नल नेचर में प्रकाशित अध्ययन से पता चला है कि लगभग दो-तिहाई नदियों को बांधों, तटबंधों, जलाशयों एवं मनुष्य द्वारा निर्मित अन्य ढांचों ने ...

Reservoir levels now at 85%, but storage in six states still low

West Bengal, Tripura, Jharkhand, Nagaland collectively have a deficit of 41 percentage points, while in Uttar Pradesh it is 11 per cent and …