India faces a critical challenge with excessive groundwater extraction, contributing 25 percent to global withdrawals. A parliamentary comm...

Groundwater levels across India have improved significantly. Over 73 percent of monitored wells show a rise in water levels compared to the...

The Indian government has received no complaints about data centres using too much water. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Techn...

The National Green Tribunal (NGT), Principal Bench, New Delhi, has expressed serious concern over the continued groundwater extraction by s...

Karnataka introduces charges for groundwater extraction, ranging from Re 1 to ₹35 per cubic metre based on usage and location. The new rule...

Delhi faces a severe water crisis as the CGWB reports a significant decline in groundwater recharge and availability for extraction. In 202...

Ghaziabad and Noida face severe water crises as groundwater extraction rates soar, with Ghaziabad extracting 123% of its total last year. E...

The Delhi Jal Board is tasked with creating a five-year plan to improve the city's drinking water supply, with specific focus on monitoring...

A report by India's Jal Shakti ministry has found that 20 of the 26 stadiums examined were using borewells/tube wells to extract groundwate...

Excessive groundwater extraction by humans over the period of 1993 to 2010 has caused a shift and displacement of approximately 31.5 inches...

The top court was hearing an appeal filed by Moon Beverages Ltd challenging NGT's order imposing an environmental compensation of Rs 1.85 c...

Even NGT would be aware that groundwater levels are not just a function of how much is extracted or replenished by a unit, but also by thos...

The onus of abusing groundwater resources also lies with wheat, rice, maize and oilseeds producing states like Punjab and Haryana.

Though the situation of groundwater use is more or less same in many states, Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan are especially guilty because of...

It could get much worse in the future if one looks at the way Delhi, Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan have been drawing water from the ground.

New guidelines to regulate groundwater came into effect on November 16, 2015, and a significant addition was to bring existing industries u...

Several real estate developers in Noida continue to extract groundwater despite a blanket ban imposed on it by the National Green Tribunal ...