... Thar Desert covers an area of 44.6 million hectare (mha), of which 27.8 mha lie in India and the rest in Pakistan. The desert is bounded by the Aravalli hills in ...... |
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... Ghats , a rugged, hilly terrain running almost parallel to the eastern coast of India, constitutes the watershed of many big rivers. The Eastern Ghats broadly cover ...... |
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... Indo-Gangetic Plains is the most important zone in terms of human concentration in India. It is a vast enclosed basin of numerous small and large rivers, separated ...... |
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TRADITIONAL Water has been harvested in India since antiquity, with our ancestors perfecting the art of water management.... |
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A Political Drought During one of the meetings of the World Water Commission, which recently submitted its report in The Hague to a bevy of water ministers, a member had strongly emphasis... |
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A Lesson There was a thirsty crow. It peered into an earthen pitcher. There was water at the bottom. "Dregs," it cawed alarmed. But it was thirsty. It began to drop pebbles into the pitcher. Drop... |
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Kolleru Lake is going! Crisis Pollution n Rivers n Groundwater Lakes Current Status Kolleru Farming Fishing Degradation Remedies Future Other lakes AT A GLANCE Scarcity n Urban n... |
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Blind to Rain With the spate of political support that the concept of rainwater harvesting has received in recent weeks from Central ministers and state chief ministers, the attack fro... |
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What is NFS? NFS is National Food Security. It is the food security regime the Indian state, like many other developing countries, is completely committed to. NFS means creating zones of intensive agr... |
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Scarce and unnatural Today, water is an increasingly scarce resource. And the scarcity is very real. There is cause for alarm, but not for alarm-mongering. Freshwater: a scarce resourc... |
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