During a high-level review meeting held at the Irrigation Department headquarters in Udayganj on Tuesday, Singh said that if any negligence is found in the work, strict action will be taken against the concerned officers and employees.
The session on water resources will bring together leading experts and industry innovators to explore practical, scalable and technology driven solutions for heightening the state’s water security, an official spokesman said on Friday.
Water resources are critical for economic growth, and essential for ecology. In India, water resources are under tremendous pressure. Water demand is continuously rising, and with high population growth, the per capita water availability is decreasing over time.
The world needs to act with speed, scale and determination to tackle the growing threat of water scarcity and climate shocks, the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, today told the 5th Baghdad International Water Conference.
Water resources are finite, critical for economic growth, and essential for ecology. India’s water resources are under tremendous pressure.
In a word, the prevalent heatwave could impede China's GDP growth. Most areas of the Yangtze River basin have seen extremely high temperatures since July.
This endeavour aims at engaging with the community on management, prudent water use, equity in water distribution, women as principal stakeholders in water governance, participatory irrigation management etc.
Noting that India and Bangladesh share 54 common rivers which directly impact the livelihood of people in the two countries, both sides commended the close cooperation that exists between India and Bangladesh in the matter.
In the wake of the monsoon season, the Punjab Water Resources minister Sukhbinder Singh Sarkaria on Thursday directed the officials…
With over three decades’ experience in dealing with India’s water resources sector, Central Water Commission (CWC) chairman S Masood Hussain…
