Hydropower

Centre launches Jal Shakti Abhiyan

Water scarcity has a history … and that history is nothing less than the history of government. – Alatout, 2008.

Managing natural resources, the sustainable way

Government to launch rural piped water scheme

Surya Ganga, a film directed by Valli Bindana takes an all embracing view of the energy sector, especially the social and environmental consequences of big energy projects in India. The film was released in India recently.

HC orders Haryana government to supply adequate water to Delhi and monitor Yamuna through live Google maps

Mahakali, also known as Sharda in India, gushes through the hilly tracts of Nepal and Uttarakhand, collecting its water from the numerous streams it receives on the way.

Odisha's ecological hotspots severely affected by cyclone

A little over a third of the world's 246 long rivers remain free-flowing, as per a study by a team of 34 international researchers, including those from McGill University in Canada and World Wildlife Fund India.

The Yamuna was considered a nurturing and life-enhancing goddess in the past. Legend has it that bathing in the sacred waters of the Yamuna, the sister of Yama, the god of death, frees one from the ordeal of death. The 1376-km river is a tributary of the Ganga and originates in the Yamunotri glacier in the lower Himalayas.