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. …
Kumar Manish |TNN Ahmedabad: The ambitious Sabarmati riverfront project is the only project from India to figure among prominent ongoing riverfront projects promising to
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has asked the Centre to start the procurement of maize through central government agencies to ensure diversification from the wheat-rice cycle. Expressing concern over depleting water table, Badal has told Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar that unless the state diversified to other crops, the nation
New Delhi: Water may not be the point of entry into the debate on climate change but that it is at the heart of the issue was widely accepted at the World CEO Forum held during the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit 2010. Acknowledging the subject as an important part of …
Three years have passed since the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal (CWDT) gave its final award on inter-State sharing of the river waters. The Inter-State Waters Dispute Act, 1956 bars any court, including the Supreme Court, from having or exercising jurisdiction
Ramaswamy R. Iyer The fact that we must try to minimise the need for water supply augmentation by limiting the growth of its demand in every kind of use has not been widely recognised. - At the heart of the numerous water-related conflicts lies a competitive, unsustainable demand for water …
This note proposes a template for assessing the governance of urban water supply and sanitation (WSS) service providers and its impact of the quality of service and performance of operations. The template can be used for decentralized autonomous public corporations responsible for providing the WSS service to customers as well …
With a view to co-evolve and refine the technique of rainwater harvesting, the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) organised a colloquium to discuss a unique experiment undertaken by it on rainwater harvesting in the Sunderbans. The colloquium was organised in the city on Tuesday, according to a …
A total of 130 natural tanks in Chikmagalur district are being developed with the assistance of World Bank. As many as 40 tanks of Tarikere taluk have been brought under this project, said MLA D S Suresh. He was speaking after inaugurating a participatory rural study programme organised by Water …
L. Renganathan Industrial pollution-hit Karur farmers petition CM Even wells have been rendered waste by effluents Take steps to give compensation to affected persons KARUR: Farmers affected by the industrial pollution of water sources in the district have petitioned Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi to intervene urgently and prevent further degradation …
P. Oppili To be declared as Reserved Forest area The place is a cynosure for ornithologists and nature lovers CHENNAI: About 150 hectares of land in Pallikaranai marshlands will be handed over to the Forest Department for it to be declared as a Reserved Forest area. A decision in this …
RAWALPINDI (February 04 2010): Managing Director Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) Colonel Islam ul Haq (Retd) on Wednesday asked the citizens to conserve water in the wake of rapidly depleting reserves and extremely low rainfall. The water levels are depleting at Rawal and Simly dams and Wasa is forced to …
CHENNAI: Slide shows, distribution of pamphlets and awareness programmes marked the World Wetland Day celebrations in the city on Tuesday. Officials of the Kancheepuram Forest Division distributed pamphlets with the help of student volunteers from various city colleges near the Velachery bridge and at the Pallikaranai junction of the Thoraipakkam
Udhagamandalam: Under the aegis of the Public Awareness Association of Udhagamandalam, World Wetlands Day was observed here on Tuesday. At a brief function organised inside the verdant arboretum (tree garden) near the Ooty Lake, a number of tiny-tots studying in the CSI Matriculation School took a pledge to protect the …
Priti Narayan Total dissolved salts, chloride-alkalinity ratio gone down: study PUDUCHERRY: A recent study suggests that quality of groundwater in areas along the coast in Puducherry may have improved to a certain extent over the last 15 years. The study, conducted by an official of the Puducherry Pollution Control Committee …
PALAKKAD: The district administration is planning to plant bamboo, vetiver (ramacham) and lagar stroemea (neermarathu) as part of the efforts to protect the river banks, District Collector K V Mohan Kumar said. He was speaking after inaugurating the seminar to mark the observance of the World Wetlands Day at the …
The latest statement by Delhi Platform on Himalayan glacial melt controversy. Says that critics have missed key issues and have ignored impacts & perceptions of people who live in the vicinity of glaciers. This document contains the statement by Delhi Platform on the Himalayan glaciers issue. It recommends both the …
K Narasimhamurty, Kolar, Feb 1, DHNS: Even as the farmers in the drought-hit district are mulling over sinking borewells to a depth of over thousand feet to fetch water, people have taken up rain water harvesting in two villages of the taluk. Supported by Council for Advancement of Peoples Action …
