Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
The "vast potential" of groundwater was either over-exploited or under-utilised, said minister of state for water resources and urban development P K Thungon at a seminar held in Delhi on March 22 to discuss the need for a shift in focus from large and medium surface-water projects to small dams …
The department of science and technology (DST) is seeking the cooperation of user agencies in north Indian states to generate information on glaciers and snow cover, to facilitate a better management of water resources. The Bhakra-Beas Management Board and the Himachal Pradesh State Electricity Board are expected to pool in …
Of thirsty queues and 400 litre bathtubs This is where the poor subsidise the water mania of the rich while the land dries up DELHI is a city with two stark antipodes. Two-and-a-half, come to think of it. Guzzlers: that man in Golf Links, upto his neck and kneecaps in …
DEAD drunk on its political clout, Delhi is blind to the fact that its water scarcity is directly proportional to its gargantuan wastage. At the peak of its "water crisis" in mid-January, Delhi's water consumption, at 215 Ipcd, remained 65 per cent higher than Bombay's. Water supply planners -an oxymoronic …
THIS is not a load of what you think it is. By the year 2001, the volume of sewage generated by Delhi is likely to top a mountainous 3,200 mId. The only way to flush it or purify it is with more water. And no one knows where that is …
THE 17 five-star hotels in Delhi try to do justice to the exotic aqua pura, the drink of dreams. pure and simple, they not only guzzle water that the city can scant afford, they refuse to recycle it as well. At 800 kilolitres (kl) daily per hotel, their water consumption …
TAKE just a tourist's passing measure of the vast leafy expanse that gives New Delhi its crowing distinction as one of the greenest capitals in the world and you'll know exactly where a full 10th of the Capital's water sinks. The 400,000 residents of the tiny 5 per cent area …
WITHOUT these 200 tankers - rusting and leaking ponderously - Delhi would be panting. And these dinosaurs come closest to the prices Delhi's people should actually be paying. While the New Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) charges Rs 250 for a tanker of 10 kl capacity, private tankers get anything between …
DELHI'S future -to mix metaphors -is in the hands of three dams. But of Renuka, Kishau and Tehri, only the last is under construction; it should supply the city with 675 million litres daily (mld) feeding the proposed 630 mld treatment plant at Shahdara. But next century. The Tehri Hydel …
UNDER the present dispensation, the three major water treatment plants at Hyderpur, Chandrawal and Wazirabad get 1410 mld from the Bhakra Nangal dam system and the Yamuna river. The Bhakra water is carried from the Bhakra main link canal through the Narwana branch. The branch canal carries about 1,775 mld …
URBAN India faces a water crisis Madras to Jodhpur, most cities are already facing the crippling effects of scarcity. There is hardly any city in India that canboast of a 24-hour water supply. But much of this crisis may be totally bogus. And there is no better example than Delhi: …
"For a long time now, we have been calculating the number of people below and above the poverty line. And, these numbers have become a hot political issue. But the important thing is to eradicate hunger. This can be done by identifying the critical areas of poverty and helping the …
THOUGH more than 200 Union and state laws can be interpreted one way or the other to protect the environment, they prove to be inadequate. An example is the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974, which was once acclaimed as the harbinger of a new environmental era because …
Interpreting dreams to help diagnosis was a major topic of discussion at a two-day convention organised by the Indian Homoeopathic Institute at Vijayawada in December 1993. The participants agreed their experiences indicated dreams could help diagnose various chronic diseases whose symptoms are otherwise not discernible. C C Desai, a Bombay-based …
Who organised this meeting and what was the specific purpose of this convention? The meeting was convened by the Global Infrastructure Research Foundation (GIRF) of Japan -- a body set up 10 years ago, with the Japanese government and business community as members, to sponsor very large infrastructures spanning countries …
RESIDENTS of Vachati village began sandal-tree felling in the late 1980s in a modest way, carrying the wood out of the forest in small headloads. But soon they became part of an organised network, supplying sandalwood to agents of bigger smugglers from the neighbouring villages of Kalasapadi, Kakkampatti, Nochkottal, Arsantham …
EVERY day, Surat's 220 synthetic textile processing units and 15 dyestuff manufacturers release more than 35 million litres of largely untreated effluents into drains and creeks around the city. Surat is one of India's biggest synthetic textile centres, with a capacity to manufacture 10 million metres of fabric a day. …
AMIDST the euphoric atmosphere, a time bomb is ticking away in semi-arid West Asia. On September 13, Israel signed the Declaration of Principles with the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and followed it up, in less than 24 hours, with the signing of the Common Agenda with Jordan. Though this has …
While the cultivation of paddy in Punjab (and Haryana) does need some curbing, the extreme forebodings of either total groundwater exhaustion in Punjab or of the state turning into a desert of paddy growing is not curbed forthwith are unwarranted.
LONG BEFORE Indians run out of land or air, they will run out of water -- unless, of course, they learn to make judicious use of this precious resource. The Mayurakshi river basin in West Bengal and the Sabarmati basin in Gujarat represent some of the serious problems water resource …
