‘No need to decommission Mullaperiyar dam’

As the impasse over Mullaperiyar dam continues, T Hanumantha Rao, former chief engineer of Andhra Pradesh's irrigation department tells Bharat …

Lavasa exposed

By its looks, the place could be mistaken for Portofino, a fishing village-cum-resort in Italy—multi-coloured buildings crowd a waterfront …

“It is not religion but the state that is insensitive to the environment”

“Both Hinduism and modern science are sensitive to the environment”

“Both Hinduism and modern science are sensitive to the environment”

Maha Kumbh to be a dry run?

Religious organisations say there is not enough water in the Ganga to take the holy dip

Kerala’s Kadars continue fight for assertion of their community forest rights

Their Gram Sabhas have passed resolutions under the Forest Rights Act as work has progressed on the Anakkayam Small Hydro Power Project

Odisha's gift to Vedanta: penalty waiver for using scarce water

Company's Jharsuguda refinery has using water for free because it has no agreement with the state government on water

A water journey

Monsoon means celebrations for the people of Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat who script success stories of rainwater harvesting. But in Rajasthan they …

Why Manipur is flooded

The state's worst flood in recent history raises doubts over the role of dams

Sardar Patel statue project has no green clearance: activists

 MoEF asked to declare Statue of Unity project illegal and stop construction

SC clears way for dam oustees to get land in Narmada Valley

But landless will not get it

Drought hit

Jharkhand’s water table falls three metres in one year

Power Point

Experts have given conflicting reports on the Tehri dam

Deluge

Thermal power plants in Singrauli, Sonbhadra under NGT radar again

In July 14, 2020 order, the tribunal orders remedial action against thermal power plants; directs NTPC Vindhyachal to pay Rs 10 cr in …

Tehri: is it curtains?

The beginning of submergence of Tehri also marked the drowning of anti-dam sentiments. Any strong protest was conspicuous by its absence. Does …

Kerala government gives go-ahead to Athirappally hydel power project

Decision elicits angry response from a cross-section of society

An oasis put to test

Backed by three decades of water conservation measures, semi-arid Saurashtra is driving Gujarat’s agricultural growth. Will it be able to …

‘People often talk of the Gandhian model of development, but if such a model is genuinely Gandhian then it is not about development’

Mahatma Gandhi never used the words environment protection. However what he said and did makes him an environmentalist. His writings are replete …

Union Budget 2015-16: Andhra asks Centre to fulfill promises made during bifurcation

Revenue deficit of the state for the next five years is around Rs 100,000 crore

Women protesting GMR's hydel project charged with 'inciting communal riots'

Shifting of 15 km-long tunnel and the power house of Bajoli Holi project in Himachal from the right bank of the Ravi river to the left bank will …

Village gets community rights over forest submerged by dam

A portion of reservoir given for management and fishing

NHPC cornered over Subansiri

Reports pick apart NHPC’s hydel project in Assam, call for design overhaul

Ban on construction work at Maheshwar dam lifted

This despite Jairam Ramesh himself accepted rehabilitation was slow

920 million people could face conflict over the world’s rivers by 2050: What our study found in Africa

There’s a real risk that conflicts over sharing water resources will become more common as global temperatures rise