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. …
Jammu: Even as the government claims it has contingency plans ready to overcome water crisis during peak summer days, the state, particularly its dry land (kandi) areas, including the winter capital, may face a real tough time in days to come.
Subhash Chandra N S Bangalore, April 26, DHNS Need for conserving the existing water bodies is felt like never before as the City has been reeling under acute water crisis. But methods followed by the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) in conserving the lakes have not gone down well with …
Bhakti V Hegde Mangalore, April 26, DHNS Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat is thinking on innovative lines. With its water recharge project initiated at Munnur and Kolnad Gram Panchayats becoming a success, it is all set to extend the project to 13 other villages which have acute shortage of drinking water …
CHENNAI: Speakers at a meeting organised by Centre for Water Resources (CWR) on Monday called for an interdisciplinary approach in water resources management and for imparting training to young professionals to meet new challenges. The workshop on
Agricultural Water Management Solution Project; Livelihood and mapping workshop organizing by FAO (Food & Agriculture Organisation) and CARD on 27 and 28 April at Jahanuma Palace Hotel. Many national experts from different filed and institutions will gather in this workshop. The main purpose of the consultation is to conduct a …
Rajiv Shah | TNN Gandhinagar: The Gujarat government is planning to follow the Maharashtra model for regulating, managing, allocating and utilising the state
Allows Company To Build The Cement Plant While Protecting The Reservoir TIMES NEWS NETWORK Ahmedabad: In a huge relief for Nirma Ltd, Gujarat High Court on Monday gave a green signal to the company for construction of its cement plant in Mahuva in Bhavnagar district on certain conditions. This has …
Remote sensing has long been a useful tool in global applications, since it provides physically-based, worldwide, and consistent spatial information. This paper discusses the potential of using these techniques in the research field of water management, particularly for
BHAWANIPATNA: Many areas of Kalahandi are under the grip of water crisis. Long dry spell and erratic rainfall in the last monsoon have resulted in depletion of groundwater. The river beds of Udanti, Ret and Sandool had already dried up and in the absence of alternative drinking water sources, villagers …
The Central Secretariat-Gurgaon Metro corridor can now boast of an automatic train washing plant at the Sultanpur depot, the highest in Asia. Owing to the limited depot area availability (58,423 sq metres), the washing plant was designed in a unique fashion and constructed at a height to suit the requirements …
Speaker Pratapsing Rane has stated that proper utilisation and precise management on availability of water source will enhance agricultural activity. Rane was speaking at the foundation stone laying function for a flood protection wall at Harizan Wada, Dongurlim-Sattari.
Without exception, global warming affects the water resources in Korea. Several climate change projects have been initiated for future water resources assessment but have produced very different projections with a significant range of heterogeneities. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a standard procedure and scheme that can reduce this heterogeneity. …
As confirmed recently by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, climate change already exists with wide ranging consequences. Europe is as affected as all other regions of the world. Management responses to climate change include the development of new approaches to system assessment and design and the adoption of non-structural …
Climate change impact on water resources is uncertain. This article reviews water resources changes during the past 50 years in China, as well as the modelled results under different scenarios, to figure out a basic framework on the relationship between climate change, water resources and water resources management. China is …
North-east Algeria benefits from a Mediterranean and semi-arid climate. The surface water resource is a factor restricting the economic development of the country. Within the framework of the National Water Plan, we studied the quantity of water that can be mobilized on several dozens of dam sites. A first hypothesis …
Many climate change impact studies have been conducted using a top-down approach. First, outputs from global circulation models (GCMs) are considered which are downscaled in a second step to the river basin scale using either a statistical/empirical or a dynamic approach. The local climatic signal that is obtained is then …
Impacts of climate change vary from region to region. The 4th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) mentions that drier areas will be affected by more droughts while the rainfall regime, in general, will become
Climate change and global warming pose serious problems for sustainability of a sound human life. There have been many natural disasters such as floods, droughts, glacier collapses, typhoons, etc. Though many general circulation models have been developed and provided for worldwide hydrological and meteorological estimations, detailed causes and countermeasures on …
