Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 21, 2024)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in Supreme Court, high courts and National Green Tribunal  

‘Groundwater depleting fast in Indus, Ganga and Brahmaputra basins’

Shanti Swarup Prize 2020 winner Abhijit Mukherjee says Indian states with highest groundwater depletion rates were subjected to water-…

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 13, 2020)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Centre seeks states' support on water framework law

States endorse national forum of state water and irrigation ministers to focus on water-related matters. Will it have teeth?

Ganga clean-up deadline revised again, but is it achievable?

Union minister Gajendra Shekhawat still has a number of challenges ahead if the target is to be achieved within next two years

‘Scrap 24 dams, save Ganga’

Wildlife Institute of India report warns against ecological impact of dams in Uttarakhand

Course correction

Climate change fuelling conflict in Lake Chad Basin: Report

Shrinking natural resources due to adverse weather heightening tensions, says human rights group

Three expert members quit Ganga basin authority

Resignation letters express dismay over hydropower projects being pushed in the river basin without their knowledge; accuse government of apathy …

“MoU virus” hits Arunachal Pradesh

Non-profits ask for white paper on the upfront payments received

NASA images show flood water spilling from Yangtze river dams

Water was seen moving through the gates of the Three Gorges Dam to the smaller Gezhouba Dam, around 26 kilometres southeast

Ban on illegal mining ineffective

It has only increased cost of illegally sourced construction material

‘Clean Ganga and Yamuna mission a failure’

Parliamentary panel says that not involving people living on the banks of the river is the reason for it

Passive neighbour

India remains indifferent as China builds dams on upper reaches of Brahmaputra  

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 10, 2023)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal 

China dams on Brahmaputra: Assam asks Centre to intervene

Admits that weak and old embankments are another threat to flood-ravaged Assam

Stop all hydroelectric projects in Himalayan region to avoid a Joshimath repeat: Experts

Ecological assessment pending for hydropower project plans in Himachal

Ganga's moment

Prayers for a little

Rivers’ flows must be maintained to protect the services they provide, but India has no legislation  

Public good, private concerns

Odisha is becoming a testing ground for ADB’s aggressive water sector reforms

Central Water Commission overestimates the country's usable water resources

Karnataka pollution board halts dumping of Bengaluru's garbage at Ramky landfill

Gives operators three months to clean up the area

Melting Hindu Kush Himalayas will decrease water in river basins by 2100, warns ICIMOD

Contribution of water from glaciers to Ganges, Brahmaputra and Indus will increase through 2050, then decrease by 2100

Ignorance and arrogance make for good floods

Livelihoods of 3 bln people living near river systems under threat: Study

Damming, sediment mining, water diversions and groundwater extraction inhibit efforts to meet UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, says report