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  • Pre-monsoon rainfall deficient: IMD
    India witnesses 22 percent deficient pre-monsoon rainfall this year: IMD The India Meteorological Department (IMD) data has recorded 75.9 millimetres of rainfall from March 1 to May 15 which is 22 percent deficient from the normal rainfall. Moreover, out of the four meteorological divisions of the ...
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  • Cyclone Fani ravages Odisha's ecological hotspots
    Odisha's ecological hotspots severely affected by cyclone Cyclone Fani that battered the state on May 3 has left two of Odisha's ecological hotspots-- Lake Chilka and Balukhand-Konark wildlife sanctuary--in a crisis. The Chilika lake, which had two mouths earlier, has two more now due to wave energ...
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  • Cyclone Fani hits Odisha, 35 dead
    Cyclone Fani, strongest to hit India in 20 years, causes widespread destruction in Odisha Cyclone Fani, that made its landfall in Odisha on May 4, has caused widespread destruction in the coastal parts of the state, with Puri being the worst hit. The death toll has risen to 35 in the state and seve...
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  • Cyclone Gaja leaves 80,000 stranded, 40 dead
    Cyclone Gaja creates havoc in Tamil Nadu Cyclone Gaja struck the Cauvery delta region in Tamil Nadu at 120 kmph on November 15. The cyclone has caused 40 deaths and left 80,000 people stranded at relief camps. Six coastal districts and three in the hinterland besides Karaikal in Puducherry hav...
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  • India has 45 critically polluted river stretches: CPCB
    Polluted river stretches increases to 351, as against 302 in 2015 According to a recent assessment by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), there are 351 polluted river stretches in the country  with 45 of them being critically polluted. Although a greater focus is given to the Ganga riv...
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  • Centre calls Kerala floods a 'calamity of severe nature'
    Kerala floods: Death toll rises to 373 The floods in Kerala have taken away nearly 400 lives and have displaced around 1.2 million people. The Centre has classified the flood fury as a calamity of severe nature even though the state had pitched it as a national disaster. Reviewing the flo...
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  • IFAT India 2018 - India's Leading Trade Fair for Water, Sewage, Solid Waste and Recycling,October 15 -17, 2018.
    On the completion of five successful consecutive editions of IFAT India, IFAT India has now established itself as India's leading trade fair for Water, Sewage, Solid Waste and Recycling. This show will provide opportunities to the attendees to display their products, technologies and new innovations...
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  • Vacancy for Practice Area Knowledge Manager for Water & Sanitation (WASH) at Dalberg, India
    About Dalberg Dalberg is a global platform dedicated to social impact and global development. We believe that most important problems facing the world are too complex to be solved through any one discipline and that multidisciplinary problem solving is truly essential to progress. We are committed ...
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  • Save Thane Creek
    Thane Creek is an inlet along the shoreline of the Arabian Sea that isolates the city of Mumbai from the Indian mainland. It is Asia's largest creek with a length of 26 km. The creek is lined up with mangroves on both sides and plays host to a lot of species ranging from iconic flamingos to tiny cra...
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  • Mumbai drowns in flood water
    Destruction of river and mangroves blamed for Mumbai floods On August 29, Mumbai received 298 mm of rain within a nine-hour period which paralysed the city and caused five deaths. The inability to tackle the flood waters has been attributed to the authorities' failure in improving the city's draina...
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  • Ganapati idol immersion continues despite ban
    Despite ban, immersion of Ganpati idols made of PoP continue in Bengaluru lakes According to data released by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike, a total of 2,08,585 idols were immersed in Bengaluru lakes this year on the first day of the Ganesh festival. Despite the Karnataka State Pollution C...
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  • Flood situation improves in Bihar and West Bengal
    Bihar floods: Fear of epidemic looms large The recent flood in the state have taken 200 lives and affected nearly 1.5 crore people across 18 Bihar districts. Although the flood water has started receding, the fear of an epidemic has increased. To tackle the situation, medical facilities are being p...
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  • Loan waiver alone cannot solve farmers' woes: Experts
    Need to tackle core issues to end farm crisis: Experts According to farm sector experts, the Rs 34,000-crore farm loan waiver in Maharashtra alone will not help improve the situation of farmers in the state as they will continue to suffer from other important issues such as high input costs, l...
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  • Karnataka's drought solution: Dig 1 km deep borewells
    Ambitious solution to curb Karnataka's drought In a bid to tackle the water woes of the state, the Minister for Rural Development and Panchayat Raj HK Patil has announced a plan to drill 1 km deep borewells in 10 water scarce areas. The government is going to involve the private company, Water...
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  • Water in TN's reservoirs dips
    Just seven to eight percent water left in TN’s reservoirs The live storage of water in the major reservoirs in Tamil Nadu has reduced to just seven to eight percent of the overall capacity. However, the state has been saved from the heat wave, unlike the northern states. The data from the Ce...
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  • Can Sewri get back in the pink?
    Mangroves form an integral part of the landscape of Mumbai and are essential in maintaining the stability of the coastline. They prevent erosion, protect the coasts from disasters, decrease the effect of pollution of water on the coastlines, besides providing breeding and feeding grounds for a range...
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  • The search for a shelter
    In the last few decades, India has seen an increasing number of people migrating from rural areas to urban cities in search of work and better living. These migrants often get employed in the informal sector as construction workers, vendors, domestic servants, etc. They also live in informal settlem...
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  • Ganga clean-up programme has failed: IIT consortium
    Ganga clean-up fails, thanks to multiple authorities and no monitoring The consortium of seven IITs has told the National Green Tribunal that the multiplicity of authorities, lack of assistance from state governments and dearth of monitoring has resulted in the failure of Ganga cleaning p...
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  • Mumbai’s vanishing coasts
    The coastal regions of India are becoming increasingly vulnerable to climate changes, developmental activities and urbanisation. Sustaining the livelihoods of fishing communities and preserving the health of coastal ecosystem and biodiversity are important challenges that India faces. This article...
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  • Monsoon 2016: Rains create havoc
    Rains cause havoc in Hyderabad while Mumbai lakes, dams overflow with water Water reserviors in Mumbai record full capacity, while Hyderabad struggles as water logging and flooding is reported from several areas. Hyderabad municipal corporation has asked the Army for help in relief operations,...
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On the completion of five successful consecutive editions of IFAT India, IFAT India has now established itself as India's leading trade fair for Water, Sewage, Solid Waste and Recycling. This show will provide opportunities to the attendees to display their products, technologies and new innovations in front of potential customers and to meet with key decision makers and partners. One to one interaction with clients, meeting with industry stalwarts, networking opportunities and product display will be some of the highlights of this show.

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Dalberg is a global platform dedicated to social impact and global development. We believe that most important problems facing the world are too complex to be solved through any one discipline and that multidisciplinary problem solving is truly essential to progress. We are committed to transformative problem solving and innovation.

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Posted Date : Wed, 2017-12-27 15:53
The rich biodiversity of Thane Creek needs to be protected for it supports various flora and fauna with flamingos as its major attraction.

Thane Creek is an inlet along the shoreline of the Arabian Sea that isolates the city of Mumbai from the Indian mainland. It is Asia's largest creek with a length of 26 km. The creek is lined up with mangroves on both sides and plays host to a lot of species ranging from iconic flamingos to tiny crabs. 

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Centre issues drought advisory to six states (Source: IWP Flickr photos)
Wednesday, 22 May 2019 11:30
Drought advisory issued to western and southern states
Pre-monsoon rainfall deficient this year. (Source: IWP Flickr photos)
Wednesday, 22 May 2019 11:14
Pre-monsoon rainfall deficient: IMD
A glimpse of The Himalayas. Photo: Pixabay
Tuesday, 21 May 2019 14:47
Climate change affects glacier health
The Yamuna river and its people (Image: Shashwat Jain, Wikimedia Commons; CC BY-SA 4.0)
Tuesday, 21 May 2019 14:21
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