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. …
Seeking to build trust and understanding, India and China today discussed all aspects of bilateral relations with an aim of looking at ways to address irritants such as boundary question and other issues, reports PTI. External Affairs Minister S M Krishna and his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi met here for …
District administration has called a meeting of officers and legislators to chalk out an action plan on redressing drinking water scarcity in the City, on Oct 27. The officers have been asked to attend the meeting with suggestions on clearing the encroachment of raja kaluve, desilting of water bodies and …
The knowledge of hydrological variables (e.g. soil moisture, evapotranspiration) are of pronounced importance in various applications including flood control, agricultural production and effective water resources management. These applications require the accurate prediction of hydrological variables spatially and temporally in watershed/basin. Though hydrological models can simulate these variables at desired resolution …
The Supreme Court on Thursday rapped the Kerala government for passing a legislation, which in a way circumvented its earlier judgment permitting Tamil Nadu to raise the water level of Mullaperiyar dam from existing 136 to 142 feet. The three-member bench comprising Justices D K Jain, Mukundakam Sharma and R …
CHENNAI: A Czech delegation is in Chennai to explore business partnerships on water resource management and waste water recycling. The delegation which was here, as part of a trade mission to India, had preliminary discussions with officials of the TWAD Board and Metrowater. Addressing a meeting hosted by the Confederation …
As many as 124 tanks have been rejuvenated under Community-based Tank Management Scheme of Watershed Department, in a span of seven years. Whopping number of 2005 tanks spread over 34 taluks in 10 districts were selected for rejuvenation under the Rs 330.69 crore World Bank funded scheme, launched in the …
Expressing concern over reports of China constructing a dam on the Brahmaputra river in the Tibet Autonomous Region, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Tuesday asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to form an expert committee to ascertain and verify whether a reservoir dam, entailing diversion of water, was actually being …
The United Nations climate treaty may soon include a mechanism for compensating tropical nations that succeed in reducing carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, source of nearly one fifth of global carbon emissions. We review the potential for this mechanism [reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD)] to provoke …
M G Devasahayam Seawater desalination finds no mention in the Chennai Second Master Plan. Desalination plants are energy guzzlers and their cost of production would be high. Yet, the government is aggressively pursuing these projects CHENNAI Second Master Plan's (SMP) mission statement on water reads thus: "Provision of water supply …
Our journey of rural uplift started on October 2, 1985, when along with three others, I went to live in a village in Alwar, Rajasthan. I had quit my job as a national service volunteer at Jaipur. It was then that we realised that the real need of people was …
BHUBANESWAR: An integrated management plan of Chilika lagoon is now ready. The Wetland International South Asia (WISA) was commissioned by the Ramsar Convention to prepare a management plan to showcase the brackish water lake which was listed on Montreux Record and used to promote measures to correct changes in ecological …
Pune After going through a difficult time meeting the drinking water demands of the city, Pune Municipal Corporation has decided to rejuvenate existing water bodies in its jurisdiction along with finding new sources of fresh water.
As water woes multiply, the State government has begun an incentive-based scheme, coupled with stringent laws, to encourage rain water harvesting. From November 1, Bangaloreans will have to ensure that their new homes have a proper rain water harvesting system. According to an announcement made at a public meeting by …
