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. …
Hail those who bail themselves out Move over, Dwalpment. Beyond boom-and-bust cycles, there exists the exponential effect of growing grass to bind the soil, planting trees once the soil is so held, catching every drop of water clouds supply, accounting for every drop of water demanded, and so prospering. The …
AS appeared recently in the media, sharp fall in underground water level will make about three lakh shallow tubewells inoperative during the Boro season hampering cultivation on eight lakh hectares of land, which is 16 per cent of total arable land. BADC sources have reportedly said this problem would ultimately …
Roy Mathew THIRUVANTHAPURAM: The Indian Biodiversity Forum has protested against the involvement of the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) in the expedition to fertilise sea near Antarctica with iron sulphate. The NIO is conducting the operation in collaboration with the Alfred Wegener Institute of Germany as part of a project …
Former Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed has expressed concern over the arbitrary exploitation of water resources of the state that has landed it in a financial mess and caused severe power shortage. Mufti Sayeed said it was an irony that despite being in possession of the richest water resources in …
The water table in the city has shown an improvement of 1.08 meters due to good rains last year, which may bring some relief to the residents here. As per the records of the hydrological department, the average water table in the city was at 27.25 meters in June 2008, …
Special Correspondent CHANDIGARH: The residents of this City Beautiful along with tourists and visitors will now witness a new, innovative and beautiful face of Sukhna Lake. An official spokesman said here on Monday that the Union Ministry of Tourism had given its nod to a proposal sent by Home Secretary …
ONTHESPOT - PORUI DASPARA POND The pond at Porui Daspara, most of which is under a thick cover of water hyacinth, while its edges have become a dumping ground for building materials. Pictures by Sanjoy Chattopadhyaya An alleged attempt to fill up a pond in Behala has taken a political …
SALINE IS SWEET IN GUJARAT Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Ahmedabad: Salinity has ingressed up to 12 km from the coast in Gujarat. Over 2,500 coastal villages in the state are partially or fully affected by salinity. Residents find it hard to get drinking water and farmers can
Staff Reporter CHENNAI: Irrigation tanks, which had become defunct in the wake of urbanisation, could be revived if there is community participation, emphasised speakers at the meeting organised by Neer Exnora in the city on Sunday. Speaking at the
Chandigarh: The UT Administration has fresh plans up its sleeve for the revamp of the Sukhna lake as well as the New Lake in Sector 42. From better illumination to landscaping of the areas surrounding the lakes, there are a number of proposals afoot. At Sukhna, there are plans to …
By Our Staff Reporter Bhopal, Jan 5: Citizens of the State capital and societies are performing voluntary labour with great enthusiasm for Upper Lake conservation campaign started under the joint aegis of district administration and Municipal Corporation. Under the campaign 315 trips of weeds and mud have been taken out …
Rajasthan owes Punjab billions of rupees for the water it has been receiving through Rajasthan canal for more than 40 years now. Though a meeting held on January 29,1955, under the chairmanship of then Union Minister for Irrigation and Power Gulzari Lal Nanda, had decided the allocation of surplus Ravi-Beas …
Gurgaon, famous for its plush buildings and luxury apartments, stares at a serious problem: water scarcity. Excessive drawing of groundwater has led to the water table receding almost six metres in the last two years, according to a study carried out by the Gurgaon administration. Compared to the adjoining blocks …
Bhopal: Badee Jheel, a picturesque water body that draws large number of people and also provides drinking water to nearly half the city, is fast drying up. From a once sprawling spread of 31 sq km, the Upper Lake has shrunk to less than nine sq km. This year the …
To tide over the shortfall of potable water in the city, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will fall back on sewage water - after being purified, of course - for non-drinking purposes like gardening, car-washing and fire fighting. A Rs200-crore plan is being put in place, wherein sequencing batch reactors will …
New Delhi, Jan. 4: Packaged drinking water and mineral water plants in the country use up to 7.03 million cubic metres of water per annum with Andhra Pradesh leading the tally having the maximum number of licences to manufacture packaged drinking water. According to figures available, a total of 1,940 …
