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. …
The Sethusamudram Shipping Channel Project should be scrapped altogether if the government cannot proceed further without destroying Ramar Sethu (Adam's Bridge), Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy argued in the Supreme Court on Wednesday. "It is established and admitted by the respondents that a structure, that is natural or constructed and …
The Delhi government has given approval to the artificial recharge of groundwater in the city. The irrigation department will implement nine different works in the different parts of the city to improve the water table. The government has also approved a Rs 110-crore proposal for the improvement of drainage in …
When Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, was asked to ponder the future of the world before an audience of powerful businessmen and politicians, at a meeting in Switzerland earlier this year, he could have chosen any topic he liked. What he focused on was both a hoary old favourite, and …
J&K; needs to move beyond the stage of rhetoric Divisional Commissioner Jammu's call for recharging the waning traditional water bodies to recover their lost irrigation potential particularly in consideration of arid and drought prone areas would certainly find favour among all the well-meaning citizens of the state. But at the …
Twice as much autumn rain and early winter ice helped Lake Superior, the biggest of North America's Great Lakes, bounce back from record low water levels reached last year. The deep, cold lake on the Canada-US border -- the largest freshwater body of water in the world by surface area …
The World Bank will provide technical assistance of $5 million for Project Management and Future Studies under "Water Sector Capacity Building and Advisory Services Project (WCAP), which will support the Pakistan Government, in particular the Ministry of Water and Power (MoWP) with project management. In an update project report, three …
Get wiser: Rain has to be stored or recharged judiciously. While in the countryside rain is a joyful event, in a city it is met with grumbles because it disrupts plans for an evening out or causes floods on the streets or causes power breakdowns. Interestingly, city centres and slightly …
The Chennai Corporation has bought six catamarans to be used to clear weeds and garbage floating on the city's waterways. The new equipment would be used to remove the floating masses and spray larvicide to control mosquito breeding, Mayor M. Subramanian said on Friday. The catamarans were deployed on a …
Punjab will set up an appropriate regulatory authority to control, manage and regulate water resources for its judicious and equitable utilisation. The state government will also formulate a new comprehensive and unified legislation on the management and administration of canals and drains in the state. These proposals are part of …
Operators of waterway transports have urged the government to take immediate steps for dredging of rivers the navigability of which, they said, have declined drastically on major routes blocking movement of vessels. Due to insignificant dredging, navigability of river channels across the country has shrunk to only 3,800 kilometers in …
Shipbuilders', Launch Owners' and Cargo Vessel Owners' Association yesterday urged the government to take immediate steps for dredging rivers to save the waterway transportation. The three water sector organisations that represent about 2,000 inland and coasting ships also demanded the government for zero tax facility in importing heavy capital machinery …
The objective of this notification is protection and sustainable development of the coastal stretches and marine environment through sustainable coastal zone management practices based on sound scientific principles taking into account the vulnerability of the coast to natural hazards, sustainable livelihood security for local communities, and conservation of ecologically and …
Ministry of Environment and Forests has been implementing the National Lake Conservation Plan (NLCP) since 2001 for conservation and management of polluted and degraded lakes in urban and semi-urban areas. The major objectives of NLCP include encouraging and assisting state Governments for sustainable management and conservation of lakes. Lakes being …
Ken Sutherland looks at the rapidly growing market in India for filtration and related separation equipment, in its national context, together with its growth trend and its driving forces.
Inspite of surplus water and one of the world's richest traditions of managing it, India's water crisis has reached critical levels, an author of a new book on the subject has warned. Goa is one of the places former business and environmental journalist Nitya Jacob has studied in what he …
Society for Promotion of Wastelands Development (SPWD) has been working in the Rayalseema reion of Andhra Pradesh since the mid 1990s on restoration of Panchayati Raj tanks. Around 40 tanks have been restored in the region by SPWD in collaboration with local Non Government Organizations (NGOs), through formation of representative …
This is the first Human Development Report of Andhra Pradesh. The state has several unique features-development of participatory institutions, innovative poverty alleviation programs, spectacular demographic transition, pursuit of state level economic reforms, etc. The report reviews states
This report begins with definitions of watersheds and watershed management, a characterization of the problem of watershed degradation, and a short history of watershed management operations and policies. It discusses the findings on watershed management approaches and methodologies. It looks at findings on institutions for watershed management and reviews the …
The National Water Development Agency (NWDA) was set up in 1982 as an autonomous society under Ministry of Water Resources to give concrete shape to these proposals by carrying out the detailed studies, surveys and investigation work and to prepare feasibility reports of the links under the National Perspective Plan. …
