Urban Lakes Urban waterbodies are an inherent part of Indian culture. They served a variety of purposes. In the dry central and Southern India--that fall in the rain shadow region--they ... |
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Inhumanly Mismanaged In India, from the 19th century onward, the paradigm of managing water has followed two interconnected routes. One, the state took upon itself the role of sole provid... |
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Inhumanly Mismanaged In India, from the 19th century onward, the paradigm of managing water has followed two interconnected routes. One, the state took upon itself the role of sole provid... |
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Promising Water Politicians do more to deplete water than provide people a sustained supply At the recent meeting of the World Water Commission in Stockholm set up last year with th... |
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What is drought? Droughts can be of three kinds:- (i) Meteorological drought: This happens when the actual rainfall in an area is significantly less than the climatological mean of that area... |
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Mismanaging water can create a crisis and lead to panic. This is exactly what led to a water riot near Jamnagar in Gujarat (This article appeared in Down To Earth , Jan 15, 2000) At l... |
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EASTERN HIGHLANDS Komal Lochan Jani A concerned villager, he mobilised his village Kursala in Kalahandi, Orissa, to overcome its persistant water shortage. The result is evident. The ... |
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... Most of the time when we think about air quality and air pollution, we think about the outdoor air, and ... |
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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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