In India's dry regions, crowd-funding comes to a lake's rescue
By Stella Paul YAVATMAL, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When residents of a city in one of India's most water-stressed regions banded together with authorities to de-silt their local reservoir,...
View ArticleTU: Colorado Water Plan provides support for healthy rivers (TU - Trout...
(Source: TU - Trout Unlimited Inc) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nov. 19, 2015 Contact: Drew Peternell, dpeternell@tu.org, (303) 204-3057 David Nickum, dnickum@tu.org, (720) 581-8589 Randy Scholfield, TU...
View ArticleUtility Co. installs 41 bulk meters to monitor water leakages, thefts
AURANGABAD: In a bid to keep a track of city's water distribution system, the water utility company has decided to install bulk water meters on main water supply pipeline on a 45-km long stretch...
View ArticleRs 48cr plan to bring water from Ujani to Latur
AURANGABAD: The divisional commissioner is anticipating a severe water scarcity and has prepared a Rs 48-crore plan to lay a new pipeline to bring water from Ujani dam in Solapur to Latur, via...
View ArticleReport: Willamette Valley water future mostly bright, though gaps may need to...
(Source: Oregon State University) CORVALLIS, Ore. - During the next 85 years, temperatures in Oregon's Willamette River basin are expected to rise significantly, mountain snowpack levels will shrink...
View ArticleSand mining: RELA files case in NGT against AP, TS, Odisha and Maharashtra
Hyderabad-based NGO Readiness for Empowerment through Legitimate Action (RELA) and Polavaram Mandal ex president Vara Laxmi filed a petition in the National Green Tribunal (NGT) urging it to direct the...
View ArticleSand mining: RELA files case in NGT against AP, TS, Odisha, Maharashtra
Hyderabad-based NGO Readiness for Empowerment through Legitimate Action (RELA) and Polavaram Mandal ex president Vara Laxmi filed a petition in the National Green Tribunal (NGT) urging it to direct the...
View ArticleRegulator-cum-bridge gets technical nod
: The Water Resources Department has accorded technical sanction for the construction of a regulator-cum-bridge at Chittarikkadavu in Koyilandy under the Malabar Irrigation Project (MIRPA). Tenders...
View ArticleKarimnagar turns irrigation hub
Karimnagar: Karimnagar district has become a hub of irrigation projects in Telangana, housing many large reservoirs across the Manair river, with barrages too proposed across the Godavari....
View ArticleLendi project remains in a limbo
In an attempt to resolve the contentious inter-State issues to speed up work on irrigation projects, Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has written a letter to his Maharashtra counterpart...
View ArticleChina’s chairman is not our chairman
This is with reference to Mohan Guruswamy’s article China’s chairman is our chairman? (May 19) on interlinking of rivers in India. I plead to differ. Interlinking of Indian rivers is meant for the...
View ArticleGovernment sticks to its guns
eeping aside the Opposition parties’ dissent against plans to exclude the northern parts of Ranga Reddy district from Pranahitha-Chevella lift irrigation project, the Government of Telangana appears to...
View ArticleNew storage plans needed for Krishna
Hyderabad: Heavy rains in June, the first month of the Southwest Monsoon, in Telangana and AP have forced both the governments to rethink on construction of irrigation projects to store water instead...
View ArticleActivists against Pranahitha design change
Social activists from across a broad political spectrum on Sunday told Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao that he could not unilaterally go ahead with a change in design of the Pranahitha-Chevella...
View ArticleState for inter-region river linking
The Telangana government is opposing intra-region linking of rivers within Southern India stating that all the river basins in the region are over exploited except Godavari, which is surplus only below...
View ArticleTelangana, AP on the edge
he refusal of combined Andhra Pradesh to agree for Scheme-B of water sharing, which included sharing of water deficit during the lean monsoon years like the present year, during the discussions held as...
View ArticleHuge mismatch between KCR’s words and actions, says BJP
The ruling TRS was doing more harm to Telangana State by taking contradictory decisions on irrigation projects, said former MLA and BJP senior leader M. Dharma Rao. The decision to stall the works of...
View ArticleTS, Maharashtra take up Pranahita issue
A meeting of Irrigation Minister T. Harish Rao with his Maharashtra counterpart Hasan Mushrif at Mumbai on Wednesday decided to finalise the alignment for Pranahita barrage, submergence area, full...
View ArticlePranahita-Chevella will be redesigned: KCR
HYDERABAD: Telanagna chief minister K Chandrasekahar Rao on Tuesday assured his Maharashtra counterpart Devendra Fadnavis that the Pranahita-Chevella lift irrigation project would be redesigned so as...
View ArticleT lodges complaint with Centre
The Telangana government on Monday formally lodged a complaint with the Centre invoking provisions of Inter-State Water Disputes Act stating that Andhra Pradesh violated the terms of agreement relating...
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