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. …
Turf Wars in the state of Himachal Pradesh, not having sufficed with slicing river and stream gradients for hydropower generation, have moved into garnering underground water for drinking, industrial and commercial usuage.
The Sethusamudram Ship Canal connecting the Bay of Bengal to the Gulf of Mannar will be constructed by dredging a channel in the existing coastal waters either side of the Palk Bay. The canal will reduce the steaming distances between the east and west coast of India and will improve …
The present study analyses viable methods of rainwater harvesting in drought-prone Bolangir and examines different bio-physical and socio-economic factors that influence the performance and sustainability of the water harvesting structures (WHSs). The study reveals that the traditional WHSs have proved to be extremely useful not only in normal years but …
If soil quarrying is a threat in the terai, mining poses huge hazards in the hills of Kumaon. Soapstone or talc and magnesite quarries have been taking over commons for over two decades, depriving local people of large tracts of the forestland, pasture, watersheds and farming land. Eastern Bageshwar is …
Seen from the outside, Antarctica is a desert, frozen and all but lifeless. Dig below the surface, however, and you will find deep secrets. Thousands of metres beneath Antarctica's forbidding facade, at the place where ice meets rock, lies a land that is exotic, dynamic and above all, wet. Water …
The Department of Science and Technology is working on a proposal to set up a desalination plant with a processing capacity of 10 million litres per day off the coast of Chennai by 2007, Union Minister for Science and Technology Kapil Sibal said on Saturday. Another plant off the Chennai …
The Centre has given the much-awaited environmental clearance to the 100-million litres a day desalination plant to be established at Kattupalli, on the northern outskirts of Chennai. The approval has been given under the provisions of the 1991 Coastal Regulation Zone notification of the Union Environment and Forests Ministry. A …
Fourteen areas in the Capita have been found to have an abnormally high level of fluoride in the groundwater with Green Park in South Delhi leading the list. A recent report on the quality of groundwater, done for the first time as part of the Economic Survey of Delhi, 2005-06, …
Prof Samdhong Rinpoche, Prime Minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, has called upon the world community to protect water resources and ckeck pollution. He was addressing a gathering of tribal people during a religious function organised here today. "We have already started using bottled water for drinking, which should be an …
Widely acclaimed for saving water resources, Rajinder Singh, a Magsaysay award winner and Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal, today warned of an impending water crisis if Punjab did not stop its high-use pattern of consuming the precious natural commodity. The two, along with several other water management experts, NGOs and engineers, …
A national symposium in New Delhi on "Ground water governance: ownership of ground water and its pricing" has called for a new national water policy that should spell out the demarcation needs between the ownership and the right to use the ground water resource by enacting integrated water laws. The …
The Himachal Pradesh government could be the first one in the country to legislate use and regulation of ground water. It's moving to notify its Ground Water Act and is framing rules for its implementation early next year, said R Sandhu, Principal Secretary, Water Resources. Under the rules scheduled to …
