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. …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday emphasised the need for greater synergy between policies relating to water resource management and that of agriculture, if the country wants to double the farm sector growth. Maintaining that improvement in irrigation is key to increasing agricultural production and better strategy for sustainable water …
Sangeetha Neeraja SOUTH CHENNAI HEAPS 4,500 METRIC TONNES OF GARBAGE EVERY DAY AT THE SITE THAT WAS ONCE HOME TO FLORA AND FAUNA; GROUND WATER CONTAMINATED Though the ground water level is high, the water cannot be used due to its bitterness PALLIKARANAI marsh, a bio-diverse ecosystem that houses 106 …
Garbage is killing the very water resources that give Goa its greenery, says HARTMAN DE SOUZA F or tourists wishing to know what Goans grow, the answer could well be
Reacting to the report in The Indian Express (River interlinking project too costly, scrapped: Minister; December 3), the Ministry of Water Resources has said that it is
Dec. 6: The capital city and the state are facing acute shortage of clean potable fresh water and there are fears that the present resources will last only a few more years. The groundwater level in the city has plummeted to 2.16 metres and this gives an idea of the …
There could be some reason for environmentalists to cheer. This year has seen a significant increase in snowfall in the upper region of Western Himalayas, the primary source of river water for northern India, vis-
JAIPUR: The World Bank on Thursday extended its support to the Rajasthan Government with a proposed assistance programme of 490 million US dollars or approximately Rs.2,254 crore for four new State-level projects over the coming two years. The projects pertain to livelihood, water resources, rural roads and agricultural competitiveness. World …
T. Ramakrishnan Eco-restoration works to be carried out in Cooum, other watercourses of the city S. Ramasundaram, Principal Secretary (Public Works), presenting a publication on Singapore to Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi at the Secretariat on Thursday. M.K.Stalin, Deputy Chief Minister, and K. Deenabandu, Principal Secretary to Deputy Chief Minister, are …
The government on Wednesday told Parliament that it has dropped the plan to interlink the country's Himalayan and peninsular rivers saying that it entails an expenditure of Rs 4.4 lakh crores, which the government would not be able to afford. However, water resources minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said in the …
Coimbatore: Public participation was vital in promoting rainwater harvesting, District Collector P. Umanath said on Wednesday after inaugurating a rainwater harvesting structure at Ram Nagar in Coimbatore. The project to promote rainwater harvesting in the city is an initiative of the Ministry of Water Resources. It was being executed in …
CHENNAI: The Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority has announced the reclassification of areas of Kottivakkam, Palavakkam and Neelankarai villages under the Coastal Regulation Zone. A release from the CMDA said that the lands within 500 metres from the high-tide line of the Bay of Bengal in the three villages of the …
Large areas of Himalayas covered with seasonal snow during winter are rapidly changing during summer, significantly affects the stream flow of many rivers originating from Himalayas. This necessitates the efficient time series monitoring of seasonal snow cover in the rugged mountainous region throughout the winter and summer periods for weekly/monthly …
Hydrological modelling of large river catchments is a challenging task for water resources engineers due to its complexity in collecting and handling of both spatial and non-spatial data such as rainfall, gauge discharges, and topographic parameters. In this paper an attempt has been made to use satellite-based rainfall products such …
Remotely sensed data can provide useful information in understanding the distribution of groundwater, an important source of water supply throughout the world. In the present study, the modern geomatic technologies, namely remote sensing and GIS were used in the identification of groundwater potential zones in the Kanyakumari and Nambiyar basins …
Markov chains have been used to model spatial changes in a variety of spheres. Changes in social situations, economic standards, natural resource availability, and even weather conditions have been explored and predicted using Markov Random Function (MRF) and Markov Random Chains (MRC). In this section, the authors try to use …
Over the last four decades exploitation of natural resources to meet increasing societal demands for land based products has caused significant changes in land use and land cover not only in nature's best gifted regions but also environmentally sensitive arid regions. Through digital interpretation of IRS LISS-III data of 2004 …
