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 …
East Calcutta Wetlands, a significant part of which falls within Salt Lake and Rajarhat, needs to be assessed immediately to finalise its roadmap for survival, observed a panel of experts during a World Water Day programme on March 22 held at the auditorium of Institute of Public Health Engineers (IPHE) …
The dramatic decline of Iran's Lake Urmia - once the second-largest hyper-saline lake in the world - has both direct human and climatic causes, according to new research. "Saving Lake Urmia will require both national action to improve water management, and international cooperation to address the issue of climate change," …
However, PPP model for effective utilisation of rivers, lakes will be encouraged The government today said there was no proposal for privatisation of water resources, but would encourage public-private partnership (PPP) mode for effective utilisation of the scarce natural resource. "Privatisation is not being done and it cannot be done," …
Salt Lake, Sector V, Dum Dum and New Town may get 120 million gallons of filtered water daily under a project planned by the state government. The previous government had designed a project only for New Town. The public health engineering department will execute the project along with the urban …
Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is organizing the Global Mining Summit 2014: An international Conference on 3-4 December 2014 in Hotel Hyatt Regency Kolkata, India, concurrently with the 12th edition of the International Mining and Machinery Exhibition (IMME 2014) scheduled on 3-6 December 2014 in Salt Lake Grounds, Kolkata, India.
