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. …
Ignatius Pereira It got cut off from Ashtamudi Lake About 7,000 years ago Sasthamcotta largest freshwater lake in State Findings published in earth science journal KOLLAM: The freshwater Sasthamcotta Lake had a salty origin, according to a series of studies sponsored by the Centre for Earth Science Studies (CESS), the …
Trudging down the Leh bazaar, Ishay Tundup, an elderly farmer, holds up a bag full of green vegetables. An ordinary sight surely but it was far from that. This 70-year-old man had grown vegetables all his life. He had never needed to buy them from a bazaar. Tundup is one …
K. Palanisami. COIMBATORE: As much as 85 per cent to 90 per cent of the total water is used for agriculture. Hence, when one speaks of water management, the focus is only on agriculture. Even if 10 per cent of water is saved, 14 million hectares will benefit additionally, says …
Warangal, May 15: With monsoon not very far away, the irrigation minister, Mr Ponnala Lakshamaiah, highlighted the importance of rainwater harvesting, whose potential is not being tapped. Speaking on the sidelines of Praja Patham Patham rededication day, he said that due to lack of proper steps, groundwater levels in mandals …
ASIT JOLLY CHANDIGAR Having alread offended political veteran Mulayam Singh Yadav and Lalu Prasad Yadav, Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari has now drawn the ire most Punjabi politicians in suggesting the nationalisation of water resources through river-linking and the inclusion of irrigation in the concurrent list instead of the …
THE Madras High Court has directed the Tamil Nadu Housing Board (TNHB) to ensure that no water bodies were destroyed or blocked during the execution of its schemes across the State.
The government will take steps to protect the Sasthamcotta Lake, the largest fresh water lake in the State. Minister for Water Resources N.K. Premachadran told The Hindu on Friday that the government proposed to bring an Ordinance to form a statutory authority for protection of the lake. The government had …
A mammoth rally against prevailing water crisis in Indore has been organized by the Purvottar Bharatiya Sanskritik Parishad in the city here on Friday. The rally will commence from Rajwada at 10 am on Friday and after passing through the MG Road, will culminate at the office of the divisional …
This might sound perverse but this writer actually likes the water and power crises that is upon us. It is poetry to one who has long lamented young journalists’ lack of attention to the shortage of power and water and, of course, to the piling heaps of garbage in every …
women in Bikhnatori village in Bihar are jubilant they no longer have to walk hours to fetch water. For the first time since Independence, the border village is getting potable water supply. The Bihar government started supplying 3,000 litres of water daily through a tanker from March 25. Down To …
On reasons for conducting social audit Social audit means involving people in an audit process. It provides a platform to the public to voice their grievances. We wanted to reach out to the common man as many problems affecting them go unheard. A social audit would give them a platform.On …
Ron Duarah DIBRUGARH, May 13 ? Even as the Brahmaputra flows menacingly and threatens to erode major chunks of its banks on either side throughout Assam, the state Water Resources Department has been found wanting to meet emergencies. It is just that the erosion has not yet seriously affected major …
SHILLONG, May 13: Union Minister of State for Water Resources Vincent Pala today said that with joint efforts of the Cantonment Board and the State Government many problems afflicting the State such as scarcity of potable water, and sanitation and cleanliness hiccups can be solved. He said this at a …
Mumbai Two days after advising political parties to focus on issues like water rather than blood donation , MNS chief Raj Thackeray called on municipal commissioner Swadheen Kshatriya and demanded that open spaces and BMC buildings be used for rainwater harvesting during the monsoon. The MNS
Call it red-tapeism or lukewarm response, the delay in executing the proposed geo-fabric technology to arrest erosion along the banks of the Brahmaputra is allowing the river swallow vast stretches of the land near Rohmoria yet again. After the recent massive erosion at Nagaghuli and Panbari, the river is now …
Vinod Thomas/Ronald S. Parker The Secret Lake,once a main drinking water source for the Golconda Fort in Hyderabad, is shrinking due to encroachers dumping debris onto the lake bed. Photo: Mohammed YousufThe Secret Lake,once a main drinking water source for the Golconda Fort in Hyderabad, is shrinking due to encroachers …
Kadapa, May 10: Officials of the Rayalaseema Thermal Power Plant (RTPP) are searching for alternative water resources to cope with water scarcity as the water level is gradually depleting in the Mylavaram water body. At present, water stored in the reservoir is 0.88 tmc feet and four power generation units …
A study on variation in silica values in groundwater from a small part of the Central Ganga Plain has yielded valuable information on relative roles of geogenic and anthropogenic solute acquisition processes and depth to the deep aquifer system in the area. It is recommended that silica analysis should be …
