Floods

Women wisdom

Our stock brokers can learn a few things about rising and falling prices from the Rabha tribe. Sheetin Rabha is a dynamic and wise women. Her group of 24 members decided to invest and took Rs 600

Publication Date:

14/08/2001

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

10

Issue:

20010815

pp:

0

Tags:

Water Harvesting, Irrigation, Floods, Tribals, Women, Technology, Panchayats, West Bengal, Jalpaiguri (D), Crops

Water Resources

Water: Charting a course for the future I

Water has suddenly become a favoured subject for seminars and conferences all over the world.

Publication Date:

31/03/2001

Author(s): Ramaswamy R Iyer

Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Vol:

36

Issue:

13

pp:

1115

Tags:

Water Resources, India, Drought Prone Areas, Cost Benefit Analysis, Irrigation, Watershed Development, Dams, Displacement, Rehabilitation, Water Quality, Floods

Environment

Villagers of Bhuragaon in Assam no longer depend on the government for protecting their lands from the currents of the Brahmaputra. They have, instead, adopted a new method to save their crop and hearth by digging in spurs

Publication Date:

30/03/2001

Author(s): Rachana Yadav

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

9

Issue:

20010331

pp:

0

Tags:

Brahmaputra, Floods, Flood Control, Flood Relief, Technology, Public Participation, Assam

Natural Disasters

Boiling point

Greenhouse gas emissions could raise global temperatures much more than previously forecast leading to drought and flooding as weather patterns shift and polar ice melts

Publication Date:

27/02/2001

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Green House Gases, Global Warming, Natural Disasters, Floods, Drought, Global

Climate Change

Truly global woes

While UK faces increased incidence of floods, the US water resources are threatened by global warming

Publication Date:

30/01/2001

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Water Resources, Climate Change, Global Warming, Floods, Environmental Science, Research, United Kingdom (UK), United States Of America (US)

Natural Disasters

Costly changes

Annual flood damages to rise in the future in USA

Publication Date:

14/12/2000

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Climate Change, Global Warming, Natural Disasters, Floods, Environmental Science, United States Of America (US)

Industry

INDONESIA

Rise in sea levels due to global warming threa

Publication Date:

14/12/2000

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Global Warming, Floods, Research, Indonesia

Animal Care

CHINA

The Yellow River of China may soon dry up. The reasons behind this are drought, deforestation and mismanagement of water waste. "The situation has worsened significantly since the beginning of the

Publication Date:

29/11/2000

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Hwang-ho, Water Management, Deforestation, Floods, Drought, China

Environment

Disasters galore

Even as the fuel tax protest has hit the headlines, incessant rains have brought the issue of global warming and environmental mismanagement to the fore

Publication Date:

29/11/2000

Author(s): Anil Agarwal

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

9

Issue:

20001130

pp:

12

Tags:

Environment, Floods, Disaster Management, Fossil Fuels, Governance, Anil Agarwal, Politics, India, Corruption, Environment Management, Green Products