Water and Society A comparison to show the difference that social organisation makes to the state of rivers and the environment About 400 years ago, there was a city in Japan called Edo. Most o... |
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EASTERN COASTAL PLAIN Lakshmi Narayanan, Shweta and Uma Maheshwari Three final year civil engineering students Ð Lakshmi Narayanan, Shweta and Uma Maheshwari from Anna University, Chennai are succe... |
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INDO-GANGETIC PLAINS Ahar Pynes This traditional floodwater harvesting system is indigenous to south Bihar. In south Bihar, the terrain has a marked slope -- 1 m per km -- from south to nort... |
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Tankas Tankas (small tank) are underground tanks, found traditionally in most Bikaner houses. They are built in the main house ...... |
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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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NETWORKING Carrying a torch to dark zones INITIATIVE Helping themselves Bank loans to harvest water Where there's a will,there's a way POLICY Watershed development: what next TECHNOLOGY Creating their own water world Simple yet ef... |
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Kul Kuls are water channels found in precipitous mountain areas. These channels carry water from glaciers to villages in the Spiti valley of Himachal Pradesh. Where the terrain is muddy, the kul is lined with rocks t... |
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CHENNAI: Endangered Urban Tanks Water has always been a scarce commodity in Chennai. The situation today ...... |
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THAR DESERT Barawa village, Rajsamand district, Rajasthan Jawan Lal Rebari Initially involved in adult education and health activities, Jawan Lal took it as a challenge to transform degraded ... |
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DECCAN PLATEAU Cheruvu Cheruvu are found in Chitoor and Cuddapah districts in Andhra Pradesh. They are reservoirs to store runoff. Cheruvu embankments are fitted with thoomu (sluices), alugu or... |
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