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. …
Maheshwar Devta, a local deity of Chagaon village of Kinnaur district, Himachal Pradesh has summoned Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh in his temple to hold "divine' talks on granting permission to Karcham-Wangtoo Hydro Corporation Limited, a subsidiary of Jaiprakash Associates Limited (JAL) to begin the construction work on the main tunnel, …
Taking a serious view of the dengue outbreak in the Capital, Delhi Health Minister Yoganand Shastri on Monday ordered immediate closure and drying of all artificial water bodies in the city including public fountains till the cases of the disease come down. Stating that the move was vital to check …
Chennai can look forward to a comfortable drinking water supply position the coming year, thanks to rising water levels in the city reservoirs. The reservoirs have been receiving good inflow for few days now with rain in the catchment areas. Poondi reservoir, the receiving point of Kandaleru water from Andhra …
For years, the 250 families of the 33-storeyed Avalon building at Powai continued to pay Rs 30,000 a month for tanker water. And then just before the rains this year, they invested in the credest form of rainwater harvesting - connecting open pipes from the top of the building to …
Variations in climate, land-use and water consumption can have profound effects on river runoff. There is an increasing demand to study these factors at the regional to river basin-scale since these effects will particularly affect water resources management at this level. This paper presents a method that can help to …
India is endowed with annual average rainfall of nearly 1,200 mm but a very small proportion of it is managed effectively. The various estimates on potential for rainwater harvesting suggest vast opportunities for mitigating the shortages. However, the socio-administrative measures in vogue do not encourage participation by the beneficiaries. There …
India has a rich history of water harvesting. The type of water harvesting structure in a region depends on its geography and rainfall distribution. These include surface water systems such as lakes, talabs, nadis and groundwater extracting systems such as wells, kundis and johads. These practices have often saved drought-affected …
The Planning Commission's approach draft for the 11th Five-Year Plan has raised concerns regarding the environmental and socio-economic impacts of the ongoing jatropha plantations for developing bio-diesel in various parts of the country. The report says being a water-intensive crop jatropha plantations could lead to a drinking water shortage, and …
The present paper is an analysis of the scheme for the interlinking of rivers on a National Water Grid that would transfer water from one basin to another, from a water source having surplus water to areas with scarce water resources. The idea of interlinking two of the great river …
A detailed hydrogeological investigation was carried out in parts of the Central Ganga Plain, India, with the objective of assessing the aquifer framework and its resource potential. The area was studied because of its dual hydrogeological situation, that is water logging and soil salinization in the canal command areas and …
It's that season again: when the prime minister, the Union and state ministers for agriculture and water resources, the Planning Commission, the World Bank and others busy themselves in finding a panacea for agriculture's ills. In fact, they do have a surefire solution: increase water storage capacities through large dams. …
the Himachal Pradesh High Court recently ordered the expansion of Ranbaxy's fermentation plant in Ganguwala village in the Sirmaur district to be stopped. The order came after residents of the village filed a petition. Villagers alleged that the company was violating environment norms as well as the land laws of …
The second edition of the World Water Development Report, Water, A Shared Responsibility was released in Mexico on March 22, 2006, the World Water Day. Published by the unesco on behalf of the World Water Assessment Programme
Azerbaijan's fisherfolk are defying a government ban on fishing for sturgeon, the country's national fish, whose caviar is in high demand across the world with an annual retail value of us $383-574 million. The Azerbaijan government introduced the ban after the Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered …
using gadgets available on three satellites, scientists at the us National Aeronautics and Space Administration (nasa) have measured the complete water cycle of an entire continent
relief declined: The Krishna Water Tribunal declined to grant an interim relief on the applications filed by Maharashtra and Karnataka seeking the tribunal's intervention in restraining the lower riparian state of Andhra Pradesh from going ahead with the construction of 11 projects in the Krishna and Godavari basins. The three-member …
A 4,500 year-old skeleton of a man recently discovered in Mexico could be the earliest example of dental work in the Americas, claim scientists. The skeleton, dating back to around 2,500 BC, was found buried in volcanic ash in a remote mountain of western Mexico. The man's upper and front …
Lead made a grand entry as an additive in automobile fuel in 1923. Its adverse effects are still being confirmed. According to a study in the May 23 issue of Neurology (Vol 66, No 10), accumulated lead is associated with lower cerebral functions. The research team, led by W F …
The Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS) will use geographical information system (GIS) to create a comprehensive database on the status of traditional water bodies in the peri-urban area of Chennai. S. Janakarajan, MIDS Professor, said that there were about 3,000 tanks with a command area of 2.86 lakh acres …
