The Punjab Canal and Drainage Act, 2023
The Government of Punjab on December 27, 2023, notified the Punjab Canal and Drainage Act, 2023. The following has been stated: Section 2 talks about various definitions like “canal” “culturable command
Canal Irrigation
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Small is more
A small water harvesting structure can produce amazing economic crossover effects. The same may not be true for large canals
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A new paradigm
the search for a post-colonial paradigm in areas ranging from economics to aesthetics and the struggle for a more just world economic and political order (less burdened with neo-colonial categories)
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Lost in the Thar
The Indira Gandhi canal project is a costly failure that has led to destruction of habitat and loss of arable land
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Unhealthy trend
Rise in infectious diseases in the canal s command area
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Problem of pests
Ecological imbalance and pestilence in western Rajasthan
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The wonder grass
Adaptation in the desert
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EGYPT
The great Suez Canal - conceived in Pharaonic times and built by a French entrepreneur - which links the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, will be going in for a facelift. The trouble is that
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Pumping in diseases
THE recent outbreak of falciparum malaria in non-endemic areas in Rajasthan has underscored the link between development projects and the damage they cause to the human environment. Public health
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Mosquitoes storm the desert
A cerebral malaria epidemic in Rajasthan has its source in the Indira Gandhi Canal
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Farmers dig nature's dams
Using local material like boulders, wood and soil, Nepalese farmers have evolved an intricate system of canals and weirs for the optimum utilisation of scarce water resources