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Water is life because plants and animals cannot live without water. Water is needed to ensure food security, feed livestock, take up industrial production and to conserve the biodiversity and environment. Although, India is not a water poor country, due to growing human population, severe neglect and over-exploitation of this resource, water is becoming a scarce commodity. While this is a growing concern all over the world, India is most vulnerable because of the growing demand and...
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Zero tillage: A conservation agriculture technique that is helping South Asian wheat farmers increase productivity and conserve their natural resources - by spending le
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Forwarded to the portal by: Satyakam DuttaPress Release by Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti, Assam
23rd November 2010, New Delhi
Seeking a moratorium on clearances for large dams in Northeast India
Withdrawal of clearances granted to 2000 MW Lower Subansiri, 1750 MW Demwe Lower & 1500 MW Tipaimukh dams
Future steps on hydropower projects and dams only after full, prior and informed consent of people in the region
Protect the Brahmaputra river basin as a cultural and ecological endowment
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This report by the Agriculture and Consumer protection Department,
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1.UNEP, 'Worldwide Glacier Melting Underlined in Newly Released Data', 30 January 2007, Click hereThe results of glacier mass balance measurements collected by scientists all over the world and published by the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) in Zurich, Switzerland, confirms the trend in accelerated ice loss during the past two and a half decades and brings the average thickness loss since 1980 of the 30 reference glaciers of nine mountain ranges at about 9.6 metre w.e.
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In Bangalore City waters and private water tanker waters are stored in sump tanks of varying capacity by households.As water comes infrequently, usually 2 hours every alternate day, storage systems have to be created by households. Typically a residual chlorine of 0.2 mg/litre is ensured by the water service provider. However if water is bought from a private water tanker there will be no residual chlorine at all.
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David Hopkins has been monitoring weather data in a village in the mountains of Uttarakhand for the past twenty-five years. Today, this amateur weather station has an unbroken and reliable record of temperature and rainfall data for the area. Considering the difficulties involved in a sustained effort of this nature, this is a remarkable achievement.
In the article that follows, Hopkins talks about the weather station and presents a summary of the data collected for the decades 1990-99 and...
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This map shows the regions in the country that are regularly affected by floods.
