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Himachal Pradesh’s Claim on Shanan Hydropower Project

The Himachal Pradesh government has reaffirmed its claim over the Shanan Hydropower Project. This project has a 99-year...

📅 November 9, 2024

World Water Day

Every year, March 22 is observed as World Water Day to raise awareness about the global water crisis...

📅 March 22, 2024

Global Bottled Water Industry: A Review of Impacts and Trends

The global bottled water industry has experienced meteoric growth in the last 50 years, becoming a major economic...

📅 March 17, 2023

Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT): NASA International Mission to Survey Earth’s Water

NASA has launched the newest Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) spacecraft to track nearly all the water...

📅 December 19, 2022

Cabinet approves India-Japan MoC on Water Resources

The Union Cabinet has given its approval for Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) which was signed between India and...

📅 March 23, 2021

Ordinance on Water Issues

The Punjab Government approved the legislation of “The Punjab Water Resources (Management and Regulation) Ordinance 2019”. This has...

📅 January 10, 2020

4th India Water Impact Summit held in Delhi

The Union Minister of Jal Shakti inaugurated the fourth water impact summit in New Delhi. In 2019, the...

📅 December 6, 2019

Gujarat tops in Composite Water Management Index 2019

Gujarat topped in 2017-18 in the Composite Water Management Index (CWMI 2.0) report  released by NITI Aayog. CWMI...

📅 August 24, 2019

Jal Jeevan Mission

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his independence day speech announced that more than Rs 3.5 lakh crore will...

📅 August 19, 2019

Water Crisis: Data from World Resources Institute

The new data from the World Resources Institute makes the following observations: About one-quarter of the world’s population is...

📅 August 7, 2019

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