Delhi—a city and union territory of India containing the country’s capital, New Delhi—continues to grow in population, posing challenges to civic agencies in the provision of citizens’ essential needs.
The Forest Department has spent Rs 2.5 million on digging 27 new ponds and de-silting another 13 in the Cholistan desert.
STRESSING ITS NEED: Tiruvallur Collector Rajendra Kumar speaking at a function to launch water bodies' adoption programme at SRM Eswari Engineering College recently.
Pots labelled after major rivers and lakes in the State were lined up, symbolically representing the death of these water bodies.
Hypsometric analysis of four agricultural watersheds namely, Parga, Paharpur-1, Bhaluksunda and RK-35 falling in laterite zone of West Bengal was carried out for assessing their erosion status.
Wastelands occupy 20% or more of India. Since these wastelands are neither in agricultural or urban use, they would fall in the undeveloped category. In other
Acute shortage of water at Kotri Barrage has pressed the panic button in the Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) Hyderabad, to replenish it's water lagoons for 15 days keeping in mind the fact that e
With the long awaited approval of the post-Parthasarathy Committee common guidelines for watershed development finally being given in February 2008, it is time now to push hard for actualising the suggested radical reforms at the cutting edge level of implementation.
In parts of the world already facing unreliable food supplies, an uncertain climate adds to the future stress for soils, plants and people. March 20, 2008
Climate change, growing populations and political concerns are prompting governments and investors from California to China to take a fresh look at desalination. March 20, 2008
