Eco concerns slip through Karnataka's new sand policy
According to the Mines and Geology Department, in Karnataka, 38 lakh tonnes of M-sand and 14-15 lakh MT of natural sand is utilised. There is a shortage of around 15-20 lakh MT annually.
Explained | Effects of illegal sand mining
Some countries – including Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Cambodia – have banned marine sand export in the last 20 years, while others lack any legislation and/or effective monitoring programmes.
The environmental impacts of river sand mining
Even though it would be in nature's best interest, a worldwide ban on sand mining is not an option as the demand for sand is enormous and ever-growing (Gallagher and Peduzzi, 2019).Between 1900 and 2010 the global demand for sand increased 23-fold (Torres et al., 2017) and it is expected to grow to a colossal 82 billion tons by 2060 (Fritts, 2019).
Botswana's challenge of river sand mining: Guest post by …
Around the capital Gaborone, river sand has been depleted to the extent that in 2013, the Botswana Cabinet ordered for the ban of river sand mining in the area. In response, the construction sector shifted its focus to resources elsewhere.
'Digging your own grave': Illegal sand mining …
Last year, Janak Ram, then Bihar's minister of mines and geology, admitted in public that the state government incurs an annual loss of about INR 70 million (USD 880,000) due to illegal sand mining. But sources close to the …
Finite sand resource needs better governance
For example, sand extraction in the Yangtze River was banned in 2001, and from 2010, the country began promoting the use of manufactured sand for construction.
Sand Mining in India, Illegal Mining, Causes and …
Illegal Sand Mining. Illegal sand mining in India is a crime under Sections 378 and 379 of the Penal Code, 1860. This is because natural resources are public property, and the state is its trustee. Illegal sand mining can have …
Why Is Illegal Sand Mining Harmful
In its sand mining related environmental problems in the rivers draining the vemband lake. Illegal sand mining in Rajasthan, 36 vehicle impounded and they have mined from banas river on February 24,2018 the supreme court has said sand mining ban has extended the sand mining till march 13,18 and issued notice to the state government.
Illegal mining: Cauvery robbed of its sand, natural flow
In June 2015, the Kerala government imposed a total ban on sand mining from six rivers. The opportunity to sell sand to Kerala for very high prices was lapped up by mining mafia. As the sand mined from Cauvery is transported to Kerala, it leads to a drop in water levels in the Harangi and Lakshmana Tirtha rivers during the dry season.
Sand ecologies, livelihoods and governance in Asia: A …
Even so, sand remains an understudied commodity, with journalists (e.g., Beiser, 2018) and activist groups (e.g., Mother Nature, Sand Stories, Asienhaus) playing a significant role in highlighting particular cases, including deaths associated with the criminal nature of sand mining in India (Mahadevan, 2019), rampant sand mining in Bangladesh (Vice News, 2021), …
Sand Mining: A Need for Stricter Laws and Stringent …
any person for sand mining in the concerned area unless a sand audit is conducted. The most celebrated of such decisions was the order of the High Court of Bombay on September 23, 2010, imposing a ban on sand extraction across Maharashtra while asking the state government to come out with a new policy on sand mining, given the environmental
Illegal sand mining: NGT asks CPCB to prepare pan India …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Friday (November 29, 2024) directed the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to prepare a detailed pan India guidelines within three months for silica sand ...
Why the UN Should Regulate Singapore's Dangerous Sand …
A sand mining operation in Malaysia. Credit: Depositphotos Indonesia's recent announcement that it is ending its 2007 ban on sand exports to Singapore comes as no surprise.
Sand mining in Vietnam's Mekong Delta sinks homes, …
Sand – needed to produce concrete – is the world's second-most exploited natural resource after water, and its use has trebled in the past two decades, according to the UN Environment Programme.
Sand mining: Growing pains of cross-border trade
Satellite data and other tools document shifting coastlines due to rising seas and climate change, and mining nearby sand to expand distant beaches has become a sensitive issue. In Japan …
Sand Mining in India – Grain of Despair: Failure of …
Gujarat, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu have also reported about the negative impact that is the result of sand mining across their rivers. 4 The expansion of real estate and infrastructure industries has fuelled the need for excessive sand mining. indiscriminate sand mining against the laws of nature has become a serious threat to our environment ...
Sand mining: Growing pains of cross-border trade
In Japan sand mining has been banned for river channels since the 1960s but continues in seabed locations. The California Coastal Commission denied permits for Mexico-based Cemex, effectively ...
In Ilocos Sur where illegal sand mining ran …
Community discovers, documents illegal mining. Black sand mining in Ilocos Sur was first documented in 2008 when residents of San Vicente town and San Sebastian village, two areas separated by a ...
Sand Mining
In News. The Bihar government banned sand mining and sand digging near or around river bridges in a move to check illegal sand mining that threatens bridges in the rivers.. About. The state road construction department on March 10, 2021, issued an order banning sand mining around bridges in rivers and those under construction across the state.; The activity will …
(PDF) The way forward to sustain environmental quality …
In the year 2016–2017, districts as per the district survey report (DSR), which is the total supply of sand is 18.36 metric tonne (MT) with prescribed in the Sustainable Sand Mining Guidelines by 15.12 MT from river sand and 3.24 MT from M-sand (Sand the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Mining Framework Government of India ...
Is It Illegal to Take Sand From the Beach?
For example, activities that disrupt nesting sites for endangered species or alter natural water flow are often banned. Violations in protected zones can result in heightened …
Indonesia lifts sea sand export ban, angering activists and …
Indonesia began exporting sand to Singapore in the 1970s, primarily from the country's Riau Island chain.Numerous small islands have disappeared over the years because of excessive extraction, which is one of the factors that led then-President Megawati Soekarnoputri to implement a ban in 2003, as activists said the practice was harming local fishing …
Our use of sand brings us "up against the wall", says UNEP …
50 billion tons: enough to build a wall 27 metres wide and 27 metres high around planet Earth. This is the volume of sand and gravel used each year, making it the second most used resource worldwide after water. Given our dependency on it, sand must be recognised as a strategic resource and its extraction and use needs to be rethought, finds a new report by the …
425 illegal sand mining cases filed in FY24
In Kerala, illegal sand mining persists despite a ban since 2016, with 425 cases reported in FY24. Major concerns arise from environmental impacts, particularly in Malappuram and Kasaragod districts.
Tamil Nadu Sand Mining 2020: Persistent Court can't …
[Feature Image: Vital resource; Nearly 80% of the State's output of river sand comes from quarries on the Cauvery and Coleroon rivers in Karur and Tiruchi districts. File photo Credit: M. Moorthy/The Hindu] The 2019 overview for Tamil Nadu showed that the illegal sand mining incidents, protests, govt actions and court orders kept taking place…
Sand mining banned
Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding illegal sand mining in Jharkhand, 26/09/2023; Order of the Supreme Court regarding DSR's for mining sand in Bihar, 10/11/2021; Written submission by M/s V.V. Mineral on beach sand mining, Tamil Nadu, 16/01/2021 ; Question raised in Lok Sabha on Ban on Sand Mining, 27/11/2019
End illegal sand mining in China | Science
In Poyang Lake, illegal sand mining has caused rapid water-level declines, which have driven water shortages in nearby cities, devastated traditional fisheries, exposed …
Banned Continuous Use on River Sand
Supreme Court halts Rajasthan sand and Bajri mining. ban on Continuous Use on River Sand. ... This blog discusses the ban on the continuous use of natural sand for construction. It highlights the environmental and legal reasons for this ban. It also emphasizes the importance of alternative materials like M-sand and their benefits.
Extent of illegal sand mining in the Mekong Delta
Sand mining intensified in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta between 2013 and 2018–2020 with an increase in the allowable rate of sand extraction leading to reductions in the volume of illegally mined ...
Sand mining: Stopping the grind of unregulated supply chains
Sand mining in water is particularly harmful as it disturbs habitats and removes invertebrates, micro-organisms, and meiofauna upon which ecosystems and biodiversity …