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2012

February 2012

SANDRP Press Release on National Water Policy 2012, Feb 2012 (pdf file 88 kb)


January 2012


2011

December 2011


INDEX
 Page No
The threat of unsafe Mullaperiyar dam
 1
CWC Report on Water Quality Hot Spots says little, hides a lot
 5
Dolphins of the Ganga: Few fading, fewer frolicking
 8
How to ruin living rivers: Fall of River Shastri
 11
Traditional Water Management Systems of E Vidarbha-II
 14
European Commission to review CDM Hydro status
 18
Flood-banks along Krishna causing conflicts
 19
Fraudulent Hydropower companies in Karnataka
 20
Chenab basin projects, Luhri HEP face stiff opposition in Himachal
 21
WAPCOS DOES IT AGAIN: shoddy studies in Arunachal Pradesh
 22
MoEF approves project rejected twice by FAC in critical wildlife area
 24
West Bengal forms a panel on Wetlands
 25
Atrocious: Police burn 200 floating huts at Loktak
 26
Nepal: West Seti Hydropower project dropped
 28
International Court prohibits permanent work on Kishanganga
 29
Burma: Myitsone dam on the Irrawaddy dropped
 30
Three Gorges Dam triggered 3,000 earthquakes
 31
NEW PUBLICATION: ADB hydro project report in HP in HINDI
 32


November 2011


October 2011

INDEX
 Page No
Scam: UNFCCC registers Rampur hydro
 1
Reviving Adan River through conservation and employment generation
 2
Himachal bans hydropower projects in Tirthan & tributaries
 4
Traditional Water Management Systems of E Vidarbha: Community Conservation
 5
Dams, Rivers and Ecology
 9
Novel Conservation reserves on Kali, Bedthi and Aghanashini in the Western Ghats
 12
Freshwater Biodiversity Assessment in Western Ghats
 15
Lohit Basin Study by WAPCOS: A mockery of e-flows and cumulative impacts
 17
Dam Planners not accounting for climate change
 20
ISRO: Himalayan glaciers are receding
 21
FAC members critical of corrupt Forest bureaucracy
 22
HC orders fresh public hearing for Lanco Project
 23
Mismanagement of Hirakud leads to avoidable flood disaster in Orissa AGAIN
 24
Polavaram: Tenders lead to fresh controversy
 25
Sindhol Hydro opposed in Orissa
 26
Activists in Dibang being branded as Maoists
27
Teesta Dams & the Sikkim Earthquake
 28
Growing opposition to big hydro in Himachal Pradesh
 29
Bichhri case revisited: SC penalises polluting industry to evade court orders
 30
HC order: No construction within 500 m of High Flood Level of Ganga and Yamuna
 31


September 2011

August 2011
INDEX
 Page No
AHEC-IITR’s Ganga Basin Report: Flawed, Shoddy, Biased & Unacceptable 
1
The Official EAC on RVP critical of Ganga Basin Cumulative Impact Report 8
Ganga Basin Cumulative Assessment: A review of River Ecology Aspects 9
Ganga Basin Cumulative Assessment: A review of Water Quality Aspects 14
DAMS for Mumbai: No EIA, No Clearances, No hearings, no monitoring 
15
National Wetlands Atlas: Baby step in Right Direction 19
J Ramesh Tenure at MEF: BIG BANG, LACKING IN SYSTEMIC CHANGES 22
Workshop on Reservoir Operation Management in Kerala 24
IMD: Climate Change has induced increased flood risk in India 25
Adverse Impacts of Lower Subansiri 26
Report: ADB’s green label not working for 4 Himachal Hydro projects
27
Vidarbha farmers demand white paper on Irrigation Scam and Water Theft
28
IIM Report: Gujarat’s high Agri growth Not due to SSP
29
Leader trying to protect wetlands shot dead in W Bengal
 30
Ramesh clears 40 wildlife affecting projects in two hours without discussion
31
NEW REPORT, Eliot on Rivers 32

July 2011


June 2011



May 2011

INDEX
 Page No
Analysis of TAC guidelines and decisions in recent meetings
1
Conflicts over water in Chile – Between Human Rights and Market Rules
2
Dying Rivers of Goa: Impact of mining on water resources
 10
Blue Rivers of Meghalaya
 13
Small Projects, Big impacts: Micro & mini hydel projects in Himachal Pradesh
15
Himachal Fisheries Department compromises rivers for money
 16
Subarnarekha: A Streak of radioactive pollution?
17
Maharashtra amends water authority bill, cabinet gets unaccountable powers
 18
BOOK REVIEW: In search of Yamuna
19
Interlinking of Rivers in Bihar
 20
Inequality & climate Vulnerability Linked
23
Dams in the Western Ghats to quench Mumbai’s never ending demands
24
Villagers construct their own dams in Chhattisgarh
25
High Court puts on hold Mini-hydel projects in Western Ghats
26
Demand of release of freshwater into Yamuna round the year: key issues
27
Yamuna Bachao Andolan: To make the river flow
 28
Fate of Trouts in of J & Kashmir streams
 29
Jairam Ramesh: Ken Betwa Linking Disastrous
30
World Bank, India to help Afghanistan build Kabul River dams
 31
NEW PUBLICATIONS
 32


April 2011

INDEX
 Page No
Maharashtra gifts farmers’ water to industries
1
CIC orders CWC to disclose backwater studies in public interest
 2
Bihar Success Story in System of Crop Intensification
3
Bihar Floods, Breaching Embankments and Suppressing Information
 8
A Review of Krishna Water Disputes Tribunal-2 Report
10
Climate Change in Jharkhand: Extreme rain deficit
 13
SC Slams Govt on Gosikhurd rehabilitation
14
Sardar Sarovar will take 176 years: Gujarat MLA
 16
Below 16% allocation for Artificial Recharge of Groundwater could be spent
 17
Corruption in Kulu HEPs: Officers under scanner
19
Successful Participatory Irrigation Development in Vidarbha
20
Communities construct their own canals
 21
High Court: Limit withdrawal to 50% from rivers
 22
UN: Eco-Farming Could Double Food Output
23
Chhattisgarh proposal for River linkage: For private benefits?
 24
Chhattisgarh: Bogda dam sold for Private TPS?
25
Kerala law to hold Coke accountable for the damages in Plachimada
26
China water crisis and why dams wont help, but could worsen the crisis
 27
US: Dangers behind Aging Dams
 30
European Parliament asks World Bank not to fund big hydro, big dams
 31



West Flowing Rivers


March 2011
February 2011
INDEX
 Page No
The continuing farce called conditional clearances
1
Global Crop Water Footprint
3
Violation of environment law by Four Himachal HEPs: Will MEF act?
 4
River Schools can make the future look bright
14
How debris affect Himalayan Glaciers
17
MEF to AP: Implement Forest Rights Act in Polavaram Area
 18
BBMB refuses to provide irrigation water to Bhakra oustees
 19
Sardar Sarovar Land scam: IAS officers taken to High Court
20
Review all Arunachal Dams: Assam CM to PM
 21
Ranganadi downstream affected demand compensation
 22
TN HC: shut down Tirupur units or polluting Noyyal River
 24
Sand mining of rivers in Uttar Pradesh goes to High Court
 25
Padyatra against Par Tapi Narmada River Link Proposal
29
US report says climate change can stir Indo Pak conflict
 30
Writings on the Wall
 32
January 2011
INDEX Page
Wetland Rules 2010: Welcome, but won’t help wetlands
 1
Water Crisis in Ramsar Wetlands of India
 7
Can India be firm with China on Brahmaputra basin dams?
 12
Why MoEF needs to urgently take up some systemic tough actions
 14
Climate Change and Manipur’s wetlands
 15
India dodged UN to get climate credits?
 16
Kishau dam a National Project? Serious Questions about MWR
 17
INDIAN EXPRESS at it again: Blind advocacy FOR dams
 18
Srinagar HEP challenged in High Court and CEC
 19
Scam in the Maharashtra Irrigation Projects?
 20
Big Polluters of Orissa
 21
FAO predicts Food Crisis in 2011
 22
China: 36 punished over fatal dam breach
 23
Writings on the Wall
 24

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