... COASTAL PLAIN Lakshmi Narayanan, Shweta and Uma Maheshwari Three final year civil engineering students Ð Lakshmi Narayanan, Shweta and Uma Maheshwari from Anna ...... |
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Any land anywhere can be used to harvest rainwater The fundamental reason: extend the fruits of the monsoon The basic principle: Catch water where it falls HISTORY Genesis MEMBERS List of members... |
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Book your seats now! Earlier Yatras Paani yatra 1 Paani yatra 2 Paani yatra 3 Paani yatra 4 Paani yatra 5 Paani yatra 6 Paani yatra 7 Paani yatra 8 Paani yatra 9 Paani yatra 1... |
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Mostly muck Urban lakes in India are dirty and dying Udaipur Udaipur city, Rajasthan, is surrounded by the Aravalli hills and five lakes Pichola, Fatehsagar, Rangsagar, Swaroopsag... |
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Urban water scenario Even though the rate of urbanisation in India is among the lowest in the world, the nation has more than 250 million city-dwellers. Experts predict that this number w... |
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Anil Agarwal It was a meeting with an amazing lesson. The subject was rainwater harvesting. But the message was one on governance. And a truly stark one. If only India could learn from it... |
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Industry at any cost (This article first appeared in Down To Earth, April 15, 2000) Maharashtra and Gujarat. The brightest jewels in Indias industrial crown. But impressive indus... |
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Lessons learnt Following the monsoon failure of 1999-2000, two states Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh launched crash programmes to encourage water harvesting. An appreciable shift, becaus... |
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Yellow-coloured water gushes out of the 61-metre deep tubewell at a Ghazibad-based dyeing factory What goes down must come up It is a crime. Numerous factories deliberately inject un... |
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First visit (This article appeared in Down To Earth , January 15, 2000) With the failure of the 1999 monsoon in several areas of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, there is a serious drought.... |
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More results for 'engineering'.
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