Coimbatore: Siruthuli, a public initiative for conserving ecology and water bodies, has commenced a drive to plant 10,620 saplings in lieu of the 1,062 trees chopped off on Avanashi Road last year for widening the 17.2 km stretch into a four lane road. The afforestation activities commenced recently.
COIMBATORE: Solid waste management is progressing in all the 52 town panchayats in the district, even though at least half of them are struggling to find land to create landfills for the disposal of non-biodegradable waste.
But, almost all of them have managed to find ways to make manure out of biodegradable waste.
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COIMBATORE: India should take the lead in mobilising world nations to launch measures to prevent the phenomenon called global warming, organic scientist G. Nammalvar told a press conference here recently.
Food riots
He said the world faced two major threats, namely global warming and acute scarcity of food grains in many countries leading to food riots.
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COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore Corporation is closely watching the water position in the Siruvani Dam, which provides drinking water to one half of the city and also three municipalities and some panchayats south and west of the city.
As part of integrated solid waste management programme
Photo: M. Periasamy
PROMOTING CLEANLINESS: Mayor R. Venkatachalam (third right) hands over garbage bins to residents at Saibaba Colony in the city on Friday. Corporation Commissioner Anshul Mishra (right) is in the picture.
The concept of integrated and participatory watershed management has emerged as the cornerstone of rural development in the dry, semi-arid and other rainfed regions of the world. Most watershed projects in India are implemented with the twin objectives of soil and water conservation and enhancing the livelihoods of the rural poor.
COIMBATORE: The Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology (TNSCST) will establish Patent Cells in some universities to enhance patent filing of biotechnology products in the State, S. Vincent, Member Secretary of the Council, said here recently.
KARUR: Farmers in the pollution-hit Noyal river basin have urged the State Government to quickly disburse the compensation awarded to them by the Loss of Ecology Committee.
Coimbatore: The district administration and district engineer of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board have announced that orders have been served on 40 dyeing units for closure and disconnection of power supply connection on the charges of polluting the Noyyal Rajavaikkal and the ground water table in the area.
