Egat cites energy security for stand against shutdown
The Pak Moon dam could not be decommissioned without affecting people living upstream and compromising Thailand's energy supply, Egat assistant governor Subhin Panyamag said yesterday.He also said that opening the spillways would cause flashfloods in areas below the dam since reservoirs were replenished by recent downpours and water runoffs from …
Ningxia to build state forest park
The State Forestry Administration has approved the Liupan Mountain in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region to become a state forest park. Located in southern mountainous areas in Ningxia, the Liupan Mountain plays an important role in sustaining the environment in surrounding areas.
PM raises spectre of a Waterless India
Nearly one billion people in the world do not have access to clean drinking water. And if governments and communities do not tackle this problem effectively, this number will increase to 2.5 billion in the next quarter century. What is disquieting is that most of these people without access to …
Harvest rain water
drought-hit states told : The overall drought situation in the states, particulrly Rajasthan and Gujarat, seems to have been brought under "control" with no report of any starvation death from any part of the affected region so far. With the expectations of an early break of the south-west monsoon over …
Water project inaugurated
Mr Vishnu Bhagwan, Principal Secretary, Chief Minister, Haryana, inaugurated a Rs 64 lakh drinking water augmentation project at Lilodh villager, 55 km from Rewari, yesterday.
CFCs smuggling on despite checks
Despite curbs on production and consumption of the chlorofluorocarbons(CFCs) and other ozone depleting substances (ODSs), these are arriving in India on a large-scale from across the bordering countries largely because of lax security checks.
Western Ghats' rain forests no longer safe from poachers
For several years now, the Mahabaleshwar-Panchgani plateau (which has the only surviving homogeneous patch of rain forests in Maharashtra's Western Ghats) has made news for all sorts of reaseons - reckless tree felling, illegal construction, environmental pollution, vandalism of natural and architectural heritage sites and structures by local developers-but it …
Panel on Periyar issue to be constituted
Kerala and Tamil Nady chief ministers met at New Delhi on Friday, only to disagree on the desired height of the Periyar reservoir-- prompting the Union water resources ministry to say it would form a committee to examine the issue after consultations with both states. Friday's meeting of the CP-led …
Lukewarm response to rainwater structures
Even as the deadline set by the Hyderabad metropolitan water supply & sewerage board (HMWS&SB;) for submission of applications to avail of 50 per cent subsidy towards construction of rainwater harvesting stuctures in houses and residential complexes ended on Saturday, only about 4,000 applications were received by Saturday evening in …
'Azad Kashmir not to extend forest cutting contract'
The Azad Kashmir government (Pakistan) has decided not to give new contracts for forest cutting nor their extension.Occupants of forest land would be expelled and forests would be protected at all costs senior minister Sahibzada Muhammad Ishaq Zafar said while talking with newsmen at the Central Press Club after assuming …
Violations choke checkdams
The state government has suspended construction of nearly 800 check-dams in 25 talukas of Saurashtra and Kutch following detection of large-scale irregularities.
Greater Noida industrial body exploits forest land
The Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority allegedly encroached one lakh square metres of reserved forest land, developed it and then sold it as residential plots to buyers who were unaware that use of reserved forest land cannot be altered. The buyers included the TISCO Housing Society.
20,000 villagers work to resurrect Jaisalmer's ponds
They are all bent to make a miracle happen, if not his year, at least next year. A brigade of over 20,000 villagers in the desert district of Rajasthan--Jaisalmer--which receives India's poorest rainfall, are working to their full capacity for the past one month to resurrect 443 water ponds situated …
Rain water harvesting brings new life to Gujarat village
Till a couple of years ago, it was saline water that the villagers got from their wells in this remote village. Today the scenario has changed. By harvesting rain water, the salinity content of the underground water now is bare minimum.
Paper inustry seeks redemption in recycling
It takes about 17 big trees or 2.5 tonnes of forest wood to produce just one ton of paper. The eco-friendly brigade has managed to shift focus towards hand-made or recycled pper demand for which is swelling gradually and feeding a small-scale indusry that holds a lot of potential, say …
TN, Kerala to revive dam talks
After a recent deadlock and a knock at the doors of the Supreme Court, Tamil nadu and Kerala on Friday decided to revive bilateral process to settle the Mullaperiyar dam height issue by setting up a technical committee to examine whether the dam could sustain additional storage.
Maharashtra forest officials confiscate teak from AP villages
Andhra Pradesh forest department officials were in the dark over the day-long raids carried out in Maharashtra border vilages of Pankena and Palimela of Mahadevpur mandla of Karimnagar district by the officials of Maharashtra forest department.
7.77 lakh samplings to be planted
A state-wide programme to plant 7.77 lakh saplings to create a green belt in urban areas and thus combat pollution caused by carbon-dioxide emissions, is to be launched on June 3.
