The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
In the backdrop of misappropriation in watershed development projects, Madikeri Taluk Panchayat members demanded the suspension of Watershed department officer at the taluk panchayat meeting on Monday. The meeting was chaired by President H S Subhashini. In the past, a decision was taken to constitute a committee to probe into …
The World Bank-funded Mid-Himalayan Watershed Development Project has started making a positive impact on the quality of life of the people. The Rs 365-crore project has, over the past three years, increased returns from farmland and solved the problem of fuel and fodder to a large extent. According to a …
Bimlo Devi, like any other woman of Sherpur Village in Chamba District, would wake up before dawn and trek almost eight kms of hilly forest terrain every day to get fodder for her cattle. This daily grind had left the village women folk with little time to attend to other …
Inordinate delay in implementation of the Himachal Pradesh Groundwater (Regulation and Control of Development and Management) Act is leading to over exploitation of groundwater resources in some highly stressed areas. The state groundwater authority had at its meeting held in August last year expressed concern over the indiscriminate exploitation of …
THE protection of forests and rivers is at the heart of protecting the ecology of the Himalayas. But any long-term, sustainable effort must include the concerns of people living near forests and rivers. The strength of the Himalayi Paryavaran Shikshaa Sansthaan (HPSS) is that its work is rooted in an …
This article describes the estimation of natural recharge and determination of aquifer parameters of a watershed located in coastal belt around Tuticorin town, Tamil Nadu, India, using radioactive tracer and pumping test methods. Recharge measurements were made at several spots to weathered gneiss, shale limestone, quartzite and coastal alluvium formations …
Saubhadro Chatterji / New Delhi July 10, 2009, 0:15 IST The diplomatic tug of war between India and China over the $60 million loan from the Asian Development Bank, or ADB, for Arunachal Pradesh has entered a new arena: Japan. Both India and China are trying to win over Asia
A study was carried out for the simulation of sediment yield from an agricultural watershed falling in laterite zone of West Bengal using event scale Modified Universal Soil Loss Equation (MUSLE).
Land degradation, subsistence farming with poor crop harvests and lack of employment opportunities has resulted in poverty in eastern ghats of Orissa. To avert the situation, IWDP and TDET watershed projects were implemented in Kokriguda watershed which represents the resource position of this tribal region, during 1997 to 2003.
Hydrological risks to agriculture are mainly due to inadequate or erratic rainfall resulting in deficit water stress to crop plants. The susceptibility of agriculture production system to such risks can be assessed from the characteristics of rainfall, soil and plant. Besides direct availability of rainfall, a part of it is …
In this paper a new dimension has been added to watershed management by proposing a whole programme by reorienting Bioindustrial Watershed Management. Land holdings are small, and are getting smaller. Even after all the available agricultural production technology, the small land holder's income are still remain small. The way forward …
This project paper seeks the approval of the Executive Directors to provide an additional Grant financing from the Global Environment Facility in the amount of US$7.49 million for the India Uttarakhand Decentralized Watershed Development Project (UDWDP) ID PO78550 which in turn draws on the positive experiences from the Integrated Watershed …
Use of statistical morphometric analysis for the purpose and requirement of other disciplines may be far from the ground reality as it may be superfluous without corroboration by proper understanding of geology and geomorphology in the study. The present study attempts at the realization of such interpretations by considering drainage …
In a move which can open up old wounds in India, China has come down heavily on Asian Development Bank (ADB) for approving a $2.9 billion loan to India which, it said, meant interference in the political affairs between the two countries. Beijing was earlier said to have opposed the …
New Delhi: Despite strong dissent from China, India scored a major diplomatic victory at the Asian Development Bank board meeting today as all other members voted in favour to grant approval for the $2.9-billion India plan. China had blocked a consensus because it contained $60-million watershed development projects in Arunachal …
