Typical agriculture sectors like animal production and processing, aquaculture and its processing, and fruit and vegetable processing, can be water-intensive and generate complex and sometimes severe pollution. Controlling pollution hinges on knowing its quantity (wastewater and solid waste volume) and characteristics (major pollutants and their concentration range, nature of wastes, …
Dr M S Swaminatha, noted agricultural scientist, on Wednesday suggested setting up of a National Water Trust (NWT) to coordinate management of water resources for ensuring efficient distribution of the life sustaining asset. In his inaugural lecture at the national seminar here on water management for sustainable agriculture: problems and …
The Hong Kong government ruled out giving compensation to fish farmers whose stocks have been devasted by a widespread algae bloom. The government has put the farmers losses at 80 million Hong Kong dollars. The farmers say their losses are more than three times that amount.
scientists in the us have discovered why Asians often do better at school. Parents and children in Asia think that one has to work hard to do well while those in the West think one must have a good teacher. Researchers trying to understand why children from Eastern cultures excel …
A massive algae bloom known as 'red tide' has killed 1,500 tons of farmed fish in Hong Kong. As environment workers disposed of rotting fish, Hong Kong warned people to keep out of the water as the algae appeared off several popular beaches.
A programme on the awareness of saving the threatened species of fishes was organized in the villages surrounding Ji-Bhorelli river, and at other locations as the Fisheries College (Assam Agricultural University) at Raha, among various fihsermen in Nagaon district (in Dharamtul) in fish markets of Bhalukpung, Balipara and in several …
The Himachal Pradesh Government has drawn up an ambitious Chamera Reservoir Fishing Development Scheme in the Chamera Lake in the Chandigarh district. Speaking to reporters today, Mr Kishore Lal, Himachal Industries Minister, said Rs 40 lakh had been earnmarked to be spent on the scheme during the current fiscal year.
Ladies beware! Your sindoor and bindis might contain toxic substances. Sindoor contains harmful lead oxide and kumkum contains mercury sulphide -both of which are highrly toxic compounds, Mumbai based Consumer Guidance Society of India (CGSI) says. These two compounds have been listed as poisonous substances in Schedule E (1) of …
Oxygen-guzzling organisms known as "red tide" have devastated Hong Kong fish stocks, killing two-thirds of the marine fish farm population and causing loses estimated at $9 million. The red tide, which has been present around Hong Kong since late March, is caused by a heavy build-up of microscopic organisms which …
More than 400 cases filed against shrimp farmowners for cutting open WDB embankments in Satkhira district have been pending for about 20 years. The farmowners release saline waters into their enclosures from nearby rivers for shrimp cultivation, by cutting the embankments. As a result, the saline waters inundate the croplands …
Even as the US and many Asian countries including India are engaged in a bruising trade battle over import ban of shrimps on environmental grounds, a small, coastal voluntary organisation in Orissa has begun to remove the root cause of the problem.Project Swarajya, with help from United Nations Development Programme, …
Spanish fishermen could get damages approaching $167m from the UK after the Court of Appeal in London rejected the government's appeal against a ruling that it must compensate trawlermen from illegally preventing them from fishing in British waters. The decision after a nine year legal dispute, follows rulings by the …
Leading environmental organisaions have condemned the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) ruling aginst a US embargo on shrimp imports from India, Pakistan and two other countries (Malaysia and Thailand).
Fish-kill on a massive scale is going on in the river Cauvery, particularly near the boundary between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Besides using huge nets, the poachers are "dynamiting" the river for a good kill. The great mahaseer, mural and other species of fish are poached near the Kanakapura belt.
The WTO ruled yesterday that sea turtles endangered by shrimp fishers cannot be used as an excuse for trade discrimination.A WTO dispute panel in Geneva said the United States had no right to ban imports from Asian shrimp traders who failed to take measures to prevent sea turtles being killed. …
In a decision that could undercut the use of trade sanctions to promote global environmental goals, the World Trade Organisation ruled that the United States was wrong to prohibit shrimp imports from countries that fail to protect sea turtles from deadly entrapment in the trawls of shrimp boats.
Improvements in a technique called reverse osmosis are gradually making desalination a practical technology. Even so, plugging holes in leaky mains might still be a better way to increase the water supply : a report.
The first major dam to be built in Laos in 20 years opens amid new environmental and commercial fears. The US$260 million Thuen Hinboun dam in central Laos will sell power to Thailand after being built with Norwegian and Asian Development Bank assistance in a consortium deal touted as a …
There is a strong tendency in Bihar to blame Nepal and the hill people for the floods and see flood control dams in Nepal as the only solution. "Building Kosi dam would mean exporting Bihar's problem to Nepal," says Deepak Gyawali. The environmental and macro-economic aspects need to be considered. …
As the date for the termination of JICA assisted Natural Water Fisheries Development Project (NWFDA) nears, Japanese and Nepali experts working in over one billion yen project fear whether the Nepali government would be able to provide operation cost for running the leading fisheries development institution of Nepal. After the …
Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a technical assitance grant of US Dollar 800,000 to assist the government to undertake reforms in the urban water supply sector to ensure sustainability of existing and future water supplies in Kathmandu valley.
