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. …
May 27: Environmentalists are up in arms over the encroachment of wetlands. They maintain that wetlands serve to neutralise the toxins discharged through industrial effluents and domestic sewage, before letting the water percolate down into the earth to replenish aquifers. They argue that the government is violating norms by allowing …
The state government has started diverting the Tawi water toward the Ranbir canal to ensure that farmers of the Jammu region get 700 cusecs of additional water. Addressing a press conference here today, Minister for PHE, Irrigation and Flood Control Taj Mohi-ud-din said,
Top executives from companies likely to win from climate change policies demanded on Tuesday that governments turn away from fossil fuels when they sign a new climate pact, expected in December. Seven months before the world meets to try and thrash out a new global treaty to replace the Kyoto …
KOLLAM: The Kollam district committee of the Paristhithi-Samrakshana Ekopana Samithi will organise a convention for the protection of Sasthamcotta fresh water lake on May 31 at West Kallada. Human rights activist Joy Kaitharam will inaugurate the convention. Samithi district chairman R.Gangaprasad and general convener Odanavattom Vijayaprakash said that agitational programmes …
Mumbai With the water crisis hitting the metropolis hard, the Indian Water Works Association will be holding a seminar on Wise Water Management on June 5 and 6 at Mayor
The State government will set in motion its ambitious plan of rejuvenating 33 lakes in Bangalore, at a cost of Rs 294 crore, with Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa launching development works at the Ullalu lake on Wednesday. While Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) will take up rejuvenation work on 12 …
SAMBALPUR: Unbridled growth and unchecked encroachments have posed a serious threat to natural resources, particularly water bodies. And this assumes significance at a time when climate change, manifested in growing heat in the cities like Sambalpur, is taking a heavy toll. Sambalpur is hardly left with any forest cover and …
Lasting solutions to water challenges require a broad range of expert knowledge about climate, ecology, farming, population, engineering, economics, community politics and local cultures, says Jeffrey D Sachs MANY conflicts are caused or inflamed by water scarcity. The conflicts from Chad to Darfur, Sudan, to the Ogaden Desert in Ethiopia, …
Madurai, May 25 The European Union and the Netherlands-based Oxfam-Novib in association with the Madurai-based DHAN Foundation will assist in the implementation of a project to develop water resources in the rural areas in five districts. The aim is to save and use the village tanks and ponds. Over three …
The Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) on Monday submitted memorandums to the Task Force, Draft State Water Policy and the Water Resources Department demanding incorporation of suggestions put forward by the civil society groups in the final draft of the water policy. KMSS has stated that providing drinking water is …
Turkey has boosted the flow of the Euphrates river passing through its dams upstream of Iraq to help farmers cope with a drought after Iraqi complaints, but it is still not enough, a top Iraqi lawmaker said on Saturday. Iraq is mostly desert and its inhabitable areas are slaked by …
The top layer of accumulated sand washed down by floods over millions of years, makes river floodplains into giant aquifers. We propose a scheme for the natural storage of excess monsoon river-water discharge in the extensive and deep sand top layer of the floodplain of the river. The excess monsoon …
Water of the Buriganga and Shitalakhya rivers has become difficult to treat due to high level of pollution, said Dr MA Taher Khandker, director general of Bangladesh Haor and Wetland Development Board at a seminar yesterday.
Sweltering heat radiated by the scorching sun is likely to batter the NE people until the advent of the southwest monsoon. The southwest monsoon is expected to cover the entire region normally by the first week of June. By this time, adding to the woes of the people, power supply …
I t seems ironic that even as it announces a subsidy scheme for rainwater harvesting, the government continues to neglect the age-old, traditional rainwater harvesting technology developed by our forefathers over the centuries. In coastal Goa, nearly every village has a water tank or tollem, created by blocking a stream …
Leaders of Sylhet Division Development Action Council (SDDAC) yesterday demanded the resignation of Water Resources Minister Ramesh Chandra Sen, Shipping Minister Dr Afsarul Amin and withdrawal of Indian High Commissioner Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty for their controversial remarks on Tipaimukh Dam who earlier said that the dam on Borak River would …
According to Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan Narmada water will be provided in Malwa region too to solve the drinking water problem permanently. The state government's efforts are on in this direction, he said. Chouhan visited Village Hirani in Sehore district on Wednesday where intake well is being constructed under …
