Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Mumbai The severe water supply shortage over the past one year has served as a wake-up call: the number of buildings with rainwater harvesting facilities has shot up as never before. Of the 1,651 buildings that have set up such a facility since October 2002, when the BMC made it …
Rajahmundry, June 6: Governor of Pondicherry, Dr Iqbal Singh, called for preserving drinking water resources for future needs. Participating in the bhoomi puja programme for the supply of drinking water to Yanam under Pondy state from the Godavari river on Sunday, Mr Singh said that unless these measures were initiated …
KARACHI (June 07 2010): Administrator Karachi Fazlur Rehman has said that city government and town administration took timely measures for instant drainage of water after heavy rains in the city. He expressed these views during his visit to the city during rain on the night intervening Sunday. Karachi city government …
Pulicat lake, the country's second largest brackish water ecosystem after Chilka in Orissa, is facing an ecological crisis with its area shrinking and fish dwindling due to silting and indiscriminate fishing, a study has found. The lake in Tamil Nadu's Tiruvallur district is home to 160 different fish species and …
New Delhi: The groundwater levels in the city are plunging to such an extent that many parts of Delhi have already gone dry. Largescale exploitation of groundwater has led to a colossal problem of water availability in the city. The only viable way to preserve it, or at least replenish …
An underground pipeline on Sardar Patel Marg will carry an unusual substance: 60,000 litres of treated sewage water from a five-star hotel to a city forest. The Department of Environment and ITC Maurya hotel will utilise the treated waste water from the hotel for creating irrigation facilities at the Central …
These days the placid environs of Sukhna lake have been disturbed by the constant sound of an army of earth movers, trucks and tractors plying busily in and out of the dried up bed of the lake. The Regulator End, as it is called, of the lake has been cordoned …
New Delhi: Water may no longer be a free commodity even for the agriculture sector. In order to deal with an imminent water crisis that could haunt the country in the next few decades, the Centre has commissioned the Planning Commission to formulate a policy on integrated water management. Plan …
New Delhi: The centuries old Neela Hauz will have to wait for the Commonwealth Games to get over before it gets any attention from the Delhi Development Authority (DDA). Chief minister Sheila Dikshit, who visited the site with PWD minister R K Chauhan on Thursday, announced that unless DDA was …
The Sukhna lake, created for the pleasure of visitors, is soon turning into a big disappointment. Sand and cement on the pavement welcome visitors to the lake while a section of the promenade has been closed for repair work. The atmosphere is rather oppressive, with the muddy brown lake providing …
The Water Resources Department of the State Government has invited entries for the underground water regeneration award and National Water Award till June 15, 2010. In this regard the water resources department of the state government has sent letters to seven departments of the government and invited proposals from them …
MUMBAI: Water-starved Mumbai is seeing a rush for borewells as well as water tankers. The BMC has built 511 new borewells in just two months. Meanwhile, the demand for tankers in a city burdened by a 15% water cut has seen around 100 new tankers added to the fleet of …
GUWAHATI, June 2: A concept paper on the Brahmaputra river system and management based on hydrology and hydraulic will be prepared by German scientist Prof Wolfgang Flugel in association with Prof Nayan Sarma, head of the department, Water Resource Department and Management, IIT, Rourkee. The two scientists today demonstrated the …
Sukhna, the landmark waterbody of the City Beautiful, is dying. The water level of the lake has receded from 18 feet in 1958 to approximately four-and-a-half feet today. There are many to blame for the sorry state of affairs. Blame the babus. Over the years, the Chandigarh Administration has been …
A TRIBUNE INVESTIGATION * Chandigarh Admn, Haryana Govt share the blame for its sorry state * Much of lake catchment area denuded, check dams silted over * Pernicious weed throttling Sukhna, poor rainfall another woe Sanjeev Singh Bariana & Smriti Sharma Vasudeva Chandigarh, June 2 You can play soccer on …
Additional Chief Secretary and Principal Secretary (Industries) T Balakrishnan has let loose a controversy by expressing his charging over the government decision to close down the bottling plant of Coca Cola. The unit at Palakkad had to wind up production over excessive exploitation of water and discharge of effluents. Earlier …
