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. …
MP calls for collective efforts to check groundwater depletion Sunit Dhawan Congress MP from Rohtak Deepender Singh Hooda has exhorted the local residents to put in collective efforts to check the problem of water table depletion in Gurgaon. Instead of luring people with tall claims and hollow promises, Hooda put …
Chief minister Ashok Chavan has asked civic bodies in the state to dig more borewells to tide over the current water crisis. As the rains played truant last year, the state is reeling under severe crisis. Speaking at a meeting on this issue in several municipal corporations like Mira Bhayandar …
All arrangements have been made to improve drinking water supply in the town said Town Municipal Council president Dr Rahamatulla Khan. He was speaking after performing the ground breaking ceremony for the water tank being build at a cost of Rs 21 lakh in ward 12. The tank work will …
There can be no escaping an overhaul of water management systems if India is to develop and industrialise in a sustainable way. Post-reform industrialisation efforts have failed to reckon with a major constraint
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Pampa Action Plan (PAP), which had never really been put to action in the past eight years, will now be co-opted into a larger comprehensive Pampa River Basin Watershed Development Programme which will include within its scope not just the revival of Pampa but also the social and …
Srinagar, May 27 Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has called for the greening of the industrial policy and harmonising its development with protection and conservation of the environment. Speaking at the concluding session of a three-day conference on
Utkarsh Anand As groundwater depletes in the Capital at an alarming rate, Delhi is all set to have its own regulatory body to combat the twin problem of paucity of water and illegal extraction of groundwater. The new policy will be notified next week. A Delhi government affidavit, submitted in …
The Kerala Industries Minister, Mr Elamaram Kareem, has sought to absolve his Department Secretary of any wrongdoing after the latter's comment that he
Abhijit Prashar | Chandigarh Water conservation techniques like zero tillage technology, raised bed plantation and sprinkler irrigation are being popularised in Punjab on a large scale and with the Punjab Preservation of Sub Soil Water Act 2009 firmly in place, the State Government has also undertaken the rehabilitation of canal …
First Unit To Achieve Positive Water Balance By Replenishing More Water Than Used Ratna Bhushan NEW DELHI THE Indian arm of PepsiCo has become the first of its global units to put more water back into the environment than it consumes, the company said. The beverage giant has achieved
The Chief Secretary, Mr P. Prabhakaran, has been asked to inquire into the circumstances surrounding the reported remark by another top Government official expressing regret over the fate of the Coca-Cola unit at Plachimada in Palakkad. This was announced by the Chief Minister, Mr V. S. Achuthanandan, while briefing newspersons …
With Monsoon Round The Corner, TOI Does A Rain Check Yogesh Naik & Sanjeev Shivadekar | TNN Mumbai: The part of the Mithi river that flows under the runway of the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport will be widened soon. Announcing this, chief minister Ashok Chavan said that GVK, which manages …
The Himachal Pradesh Government has set up a State-level committee to re-estimate ground water resources in the State. The Principal Secretary (IPH) would be the chairman of the committee. Engineer-in-chief, I&PH;, Director of Industries, Director of Urban Development, Director of Agriculture, all chief engineers, superintending engineer (Hydrology), superintending engineer (WS …
Welcome to a quarry-filled Pallikaranai Once the marsh is filled, they can construct huge buildings there. What an idea! -- Shaju IT'S 2 am. A truck stops near the `Litter Free Zone' hoarding at the Pallavaram-Thoraippakkam Radial road by the Pallikaranai marsh. The driver switches off the headlights and presses …
Landscape changes were measured in two watersheds of western Himalayas over a period of 17 years using satellite images. Whereas the total forest cover was found to have been altered, there was substantial shift among different elements which could be attributed to the increasing populations that live off these watersheds. …
We report here an attempt to develop a Database Management System (DBMS) of bio-geo-hydrometeorological parameters needs of the stakeholders of local level planning for a representative watershed (viz. the Khulgad in Almora district) of Kumaun, Lesser Himalayan terrain in the Uttarakhand. The Khulgad DBMS is constituted of five Geographic Information …
Kolleru, the largest freshwater lake along the east coast of India in Andhra Pradesh (AP) had been encroached, mainly for aquaculture, to such an extent that most of the lake area was highly compartmentalized by 3
The area around Kunwari Pass in Central Himalayas is the source of a number of streams that include Dhaknala, Karmanasa, Patalganga, Belakuchi and Garurganga. The first is the tributary of Dhauliganga whereas the rest drain into Alaknanda. These streams are known for the devastation they have caused in the past, …
