Nov 6, 2019
The 3rd International Conference on Sustainable Development of Water and Environment (ICSDWE2020) will be held on 13-14 January, 2020 in Inha University, Incheon, South Korea. Two papers of Arun Kumar Singh, Environics Trust, New Delhi, have been accepted for this...
Jun 18, 2018
NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet on approved a proposal for enacting the Dam Safety Bill 2018, which will help the states and union territories to adopt uniform safety procedures to ensure safety of reservoirs. The bill also seeks to constitute a national committee on dam...
Jun 16, 2018
The Tamil Nadu government today urged the Centre to keep in abeyance its decision to enact a Dam Safety Bill, recalling it had earlier raised some objections and that it had not received any revised draft on the matter thereafter. In a letter to Prime Minister...
May 18, 2013
Engineers require retraining, not the Ganga. This is where I left our conversation in my previous column. Why did I say this? The inter-ministerial committee in which I participated as a member was discussing how much the ecological flow – the water that should...
May 2, 2013
In Assam, India, an island is dissolving like a cube of sugar in a cup of the tea for which the region is famous, and a river is to blame. The New York Timesreports on the fate of Majuli, one of the world’s largest “inland islands,” which is surrounded by...
Apr 20, 2013
Indian Ministry of Power, Water Resources and External Affairs has approved the formation of a working group to coordinate with Bangladesh and Nepal on joint projects for the exploitation of water resources on common river basins, particularly for hydropower...
