Prime Minister Jean Chretien yesterday cracked open the door to the possibility of Canada exporting water to a thirsty United States, setting up a special committee to examine the controversial

Drought, cyclone, earth-quake.... the list of miseries of Kutch seems to be endless. Unfortunately, one more grave news awaits Kutch. This time, it is ground water. With scanty rains and no other

Even as the Gondal nagarpalika has not yet paid Rs 53 lakh, collected as provident fund for its staff, to the regional provident fund commissioner's office, the civic body chose to spend Rs one lakh

With the Mahi-Narmada, waters being supplied twice a day and for over two hours each time, Barvala (Ghelashah) of Ahmedabad district with a population of 20,000 should not have nay problem. However,

An Indo-German watershed development programme, fond successful in Maharashtra, is likely to be extended to Andhra Pradesh. Negotiations pertaining to the programme between the National bank for

The Telugu Desam government is finally flexing its muscles to take up the issue of pending irrigation projects in the district even as the Opposition Congress has decided to launch an indefinite

Global Positioning System (GPS) monitoring has revealed that Africa's Great Rift Valley is widening, Kenyan researchers have

Washington's decision to reject the Kyoto treaty on global warming could be disastrous for small island nations like the Maldives, a government official said yesterday. The popular tourist

When 180 countries met in The Hague last November in a doomed attempt to finalise a 1997 deal to cut greenhouse gas emissions, scientific evidence that pollution was smothering the world had never

Researchers at Nasa and the University of Maryland, Baltimore Country (UMBC), U.S., studying changes in tropical precipitation patterns, have noted a higher frequency of EI Ninos and La Ninas over