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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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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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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Urban Lakes Urban waterbodies are an inherent part of Indian culture. They served a variety ...... |
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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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Water scenario in rural areas Dependence on the state has meant that with the cost of water supply being high and cost recovery being poor, the financial sustainability of water schemes ha... |
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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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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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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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New Washermanpet tail-end areas get erratic water supply CHENNAI, MARCH 20. There are more 'to let' boards visible at the New Washermanpet area than probably any other part of the city. ... |
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