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. …
Ranchi, April 27: The depleting ground water table across the urban landscape of Jharkhand has reached alarming levels, exposing sections of the population to arsenic poisoning and forcing others to contemplate relocating as more and more residential areas slowly turn dry. A survey conducted by the state
Water woes This April is proving to be too cruel for Giridih. First, the unbearable heat and now, an acute drinking water crisis looms large on the district with two of its water supply centres drying up, thanks to the sharp rise in temperature and the absence of rainfall. Water …
BHUBANESWAR: The surface water is going down with rising temperature and perhaps with an ever-increasing population. The depleting ground water table in many areas is found with a 12-25 feet fall in water level in wells. Sample this: Many wells in Jagamohan Nagar where a water table of 25 feet …
Gandhinagar: River Narmada as well as Bharuch-Dahej area have been kept out of the newly-designed Kalpasar region due to "serious ecological problems" affecting the sweet water lake to be build by damming Gulf of Khambhat. Sachivalaya sources said state environment department has prepared a note, which said that the area …
Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal has said the SAD-BJP government would stop river waters going to neighbouring states and for that Section 5 of the Punjab Termination of River Waters Agreements Act would be scrapped. He was here to address rallies in support of party candidate Hans Raj Hans from …
THE extent of pollution seeping into our rivers is mind-boggling and has been that way for years together. If there ever was any hope that remedial measures would be taken to deal with the problem, it now seems that hope was belied. That much becomes clear through a front-page report …
Wasa water has become a source of quick bucks for some dishonest government employees in the wake of unbearable water crisis in the capital, allege a number of city dwellers. They allege a clique of Dhaka Water and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) officials are exacting more money than the official rates …
Soft attitude of the government towards polluters and lack of awareness among city dwellers have literally left dead all the rivers and other surface waters in and around the capital. Over the years the government agencies conducted small-scale drives against the polluters without yielding any major success. The polluters have …
European ambassadors approved a European Union plan to ban imports of furs and other products from culled seals on Friday, moving the 27-nation bloc one step closer to a trade clash with Norway and Canada. Both seal-hunting nations have warned the EU in recent weeks that they could challenge the …
ROURKELA: That ground water resources are depleting by the day in the Steel City is no more a secret. But the grim scenario is yet to wake up the local authorities from their slumber. Residents of slum pockets including Gopabandhupali, Madhusudanpali, Tiklanagar, Balughat, Malgodam etc are often seen scrambling for …
Says senior leader Venkaiah Naidu appeal: BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu speaking at a public meeting in Ramanathapuram on Friday. RAMANATHAPURAM: Senior leader of the the Bharatiya Janata Party Venkaiah Naidu reiterated that the party would implement the Sethu Samudram project through an alternative route without breaking the
We present a local, self-sustaining, natural and economic way to secure a quality drinking water resource for a town or city. Most local rainfed aquifers in the environs of cities suffer from long-term contamination by chemical waste
This article offers an inventory of the risk of potential hazards to water resources and its implications to human and ecological receptors that may result from the climate change with special reference to India, a developing country. It is a study-based approach analysing various studies undertaken earlier in the field …
This article offers an inventory of the risk of potential hazards to water resources and its implications to human and ecological receptors that may result from the climate change with special reference to India, a developing country. It is a study-based approach analysing various studies undertaken earlier in the field …
By Suzanne Goldenberg Some of the mightiest rivers on the planet, including the Ganga, the Niger, and the Yellow river in China, are drying up because of climate change, a study of global waterways has warned. The study by the National Centre for Atmospheric Research in Colorado found that global …
The government will start compensating locals within a few days for land acquisition in the ambitious Hatirjheel-Begunbari development project in the heart of the capital. Around Tk 488 crore has been handed over to the Dhaka deputy commissioner for the compensation. The state minister for public works, Abdul Mannan Khan, …
Due to last three weeks of rains in the country, water shortage, which otherwise was estimated at 10 per cent for early Kharif, has ended, and the water planners hope to have
IIT Bombay's suggestion to divert the course of Mithi river alongside the internal boundary of the airport - which is the most viable option to prevent flooding of the river has already mired in controversy with both the Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL) and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) locking …
The Punjab Water Council (PWC) in an emergency meeting here on Thursday strongly opposed the recent moves for changes in the existing distribution system of water and said that 1991 Water Accord for distribution of water among the four provinces is linked with the construction Kala Bagh dam. "If there …
