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. …
Farmers and non-governmental organisations on Monday have strongly demanded an immediate stop to all mining activities in the catchment areas and buffer zones. At a public meeting-cum-exhibition held at the Lohia Maidan here this evening to commemorate World Water Day, NGOs demanded that the government immediately come out with a …
Project may be answer to depleting water table PANJIM, MARCH 22 The wanton depletion of water table in the Verna Industrial Estate due to digging of bore wells may have an answer in the rainwater harvesting and ground water recharge project for which a multi-disciplinary team has identified around 20 …
Pakistan, for reasons of its own, has decided to raise water as a major new issue with India. This is an ominous development, perhaps the most ominous ever in the troubled history of the relations between the two countries. If the Kashmir issue were to be miraculously resolved tomorrow, water …
Rajahmundry, March 22: Coastal villages in West Godavari are being plagued by high saline content in their drinking water due to seepage of sea water into the ground water. Sources say that the main reason behind this is excessive quarrying of sand on the Godavari river bed. According to ground …
Mumbai Nearly 75 Mumbaiites gathered near Mithi River to participate in the Wild River dance contest. Citizens, who gathered at Vakola nulla, recorded their dance on video cameras. The recordings will be uploaded on the website of International Rivers, a Berkeley-based welfare group working to save the rivers of the …
Today is World Water Day This just might be what the doctor ordered for the parched country.With the El Nino effect waning, India can look forward to a normal monsoon this year. This will bring cheer to farmers who were pinning hopes on the kharif produce. Abundant rain is also …
New Delhi: The alarm bells are ringing right below our feet. Delhi and portions of Rajasthan falling in the National Capital Region (NCR) extract almost double the amount of groundwater recharged every year. The situation is equally bad in NCR parts of Haryana, particularly Gurgaon and Faridabad, which largely depend …
Today, in commemoration of World Water Day, people all over the world are joining together to raise awareness about the importance of one of the most basic and fundamental components of human life: water. Water is a precious resource, and a reliable supply of clean water is one of the …
Initiative to refill 44 of 50 tubewells using rainwater harvesting systems In a first-of-its-kind initiative, which brings together public and private investments for water supply, 44 dry tubewells
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The current drought the state is facing now, is a man-made calamity, Water Resources Minister N.K.Premachandran said. He was inaugurating the 5-day celebrations in connection with the World Water Day which began at the Sasthra Bhavan here on Friday.
Pune A Campaign that started two years ago to promote watershed development activities in villages of Pune district is expected to bear fruit this summer, expect groundwater survey and development agency (GSDA) officials. Over the last two years, the GSDA has been helping people implement rainwater-harvesting schemes as part of …
JAIPUR: The progress of the World Bank-sponsored Rajasthan Water Sector Restructuring Project has been reviewed at Sinchai Bhavan here with a call to the project's engineers to regularly monitor the works and pay attention to maintaining quality in the canal-related tasks. State Principal Water Resources Secretary Ram Lubhaya presiding over …
The Tamil Nadu Government on Friday resolved to be firm on the Mullaperiyar issue. Presenting Budget 2010-11 at the new Assembly Complex, State Finance Minister K Anbazhagan said his Government had filed an interlocutory petition before the Supreme Court. This sought to recall its order constituting an Empowered Committee on …
As Egypt celebrates the 50th anniversary of the start of the construction of the Aswan High Dam, some scientists say that this wonder of engineering is contributing to an environmental catastrophe that could force millions of its citizens to abandon the lush, fertile delta. The worst of these is coastal …
After a gap of five years, India and Bangladesh on Thursday resumed discussions on the sharing of the Teesta river waters and issues relating to other rivers. The water resources secretaries of the two countries met here in the morning, followed by the ministeriallevel joint river commission meeting later in …
