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UEM Research Focus Capacity Building Disaster Mitigation Energy Management Environmental Education Green Construction Impact Assessment Slums and Squatters Sustainable ...... |
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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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When calamity Strikes Water harvesting is the new catchword for the government struggling against drought. ITs now official. Cherrapunji, which holds the record for the highest rain... |
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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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CENTRAL HIGHLANDS Harnath Jagawat Jagawat heads an NGO working in the field of natural resource management. He and his team work on the development and regeneration of local natu... |
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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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Damodar The Damodar is the most polluted river in the country today, thanks to the several industries that have sprouted on its mineral-rich banks. There are the coal-based industries that... |
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COMMENTS Khamranga Birds diversity dwindles Early Birds continued its birds census at Khamranga beel near Thakurkuchi Rly station for 18th consecutive year on 9th of January but failed... |
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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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More results for 'Environmental Pollution'.
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