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. …
Worst victim of global climate change -- Bangladesh-- where incidents of typhoons, flooding and rising sea levels become very common, is now facing increased threat of an age-old danger, the biggest threat to children - drowning. Statistics show that at least 17,000 children drown and thousands more are left permanently …
Pakistan and China on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to promote co-operation in river fisheries and related technologies. President Asif Ali Zardari was also present at the signing ceremony between Indus River Fresh Water Fisheries Research Institute and Pearl River Fishery Research Institute of Guangzhou. From Pakistani side, …
The Supreme Court has directed the Karnataka Government to provide information about the use of forestland for the proposed Kalasa Banduri Nalla project, following objections from the Goa government. In an appeal before the apex court, the Goa government has alleged that Karnataka has been violating the Forest Protection Act …
Chandigarh: Water woes in Haryana have further deepened. As if deficient rainfall was not enough, the water table has registered a substantial fall of half a metre since last year while it has dipped by nearly three metres in certain pockets of the state. Though the water table has shown …
Forest ponds will be constructed to check the depleting groundwater and to harvest rainwater in Himachal Pradesh, state Forest Minister J.P. Nadda said Sunday. He said the 'van sarovars' or forest ponds will be constructed under the NREGA (National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) programme. "These would help check depleting water …
Climate change will lead to significant changes of groundwater recharge and thus renewable groundwater resources. Using the global water resources and use model WaterGAP, the impact of climate change on groundwater recharge and the number of affected people was computed for four climate scenarios by two climate models. Vulnerability of …
Lalitpur sub-metropolis has allocated five million rupees this year for the conservation of water sources in the area to minimise the shortage of drinking water. Due to excessive use of underground water in Lalitpur, most of the stone taps, ponds and other sources of water have dried up. The office …
Water shortages present the greatest future threat to the viability of Pakistan as a state and a society, warns a new book on Pakistan. Author Michael Kugelman argues that
LUCKNOW: Call it an irony of sorts. At a time when there is brouhaha over the depleting ground water table, the central ground water board (CGWB) has revealed a huge ground water reservoir hidden deep within the earth's crust. Virtually untapped, the extent of this reservoir in UP alone is …
A Nasa mission revealed Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan lost 109 cubic km of water in six years. With pumps being sunk in ever deeper, a bad monsoon has only shown how close to the edge we live Rajeev Deshpande & Nitin Sethi Nasa's twin GRACE satellites orbitting the earth in …
Scientists have detected mercury contamination in every one of hundreds of fish sampled from 291 freshwater streams, according to a U.S. government study released on Wednesday. More than a quarter of those fish contained concentrations of mercury exceeding levels set by the Environmental Protection Agency for the protection of people …
Anticipating difficult times ahead, the State Agriculture Department has readied a proposal worth over Rs 550 crore to help farmers tide over a situation created by deficit rainfall. If accepted, the proposal that has been submitted to the State Revenue Department could be a lifeline for farmers who have already …
At a time when the water level of Ranipokhari is decreasing due to increasing settlements in the area and the fish in it have started dying because of insufficient water, the Youth Red-Cross Circle (YRC) at Tri-Chandra College on Wednesday installed two more rainwater harvesting systems. The system was installed …
State Minister for Environment and Forest Hasan Mahmud said Bangladesh as one of the most affected countries due to world climate change impacts has been tirelessly working to save its land and resources from the environmental hazards by managing its internal rivers. Mahmud, who is now on a visit to …
BANGALORE: Minister for Home V.S. Acharya on Wednesday said Karnataka had released only excess water from the Krishnaraja Sagar (KRS) to Tamil Nadu. He told presspersons here that authorities had released excess water into the Cauvery as they could not impound water beyond 123 ft as the full reservoir level …
When government scientists went looking for mercury contamination in fish in 291 streams around the nation, they found it in every fish they tested, the Interior Department said, even in isolated rural waterways. In a statement, the department said that some of the streams tested were affected by mining operations, …
The government has posed the Rs 1197.60 crore Pabbar gravity drinking water scheme to the World Bank for funding to cater to the water requirement of the state capital for the next 35 years. This was stated by Irrigation and Public Health (IPH) Minister Ravinder Ravi in reply to a …
