Gujarat

Drought is in the mind

GOOD NEWS: There is more evidence to show that water harvesting can go a long way in dealing with drought and solving the water crisis, and even governments in India are learning
BAD NEWS: Crash programmes are not the answers by themsel

Publication Date:

30/10/2000

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

9

Issue:

20001031

pp:

0

Tags:

Environment Politics, Water Management, Water Harvesting, Narmada Valley Project, Watershed Development, Traditional Knowledge, Subsidies, Governance, Government Of India (GOI), Community Groups, CSE, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Rainfall, Rural Development

Fisheries

Blood on the beach

Fisherfolk on the coast of Saurashtra kill whale sharks to make a living. If this is replaced by an ecotourism scheme the people and the fish would both be better off

Publication Date:

14/10/2000

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

9

Issue:

20001015

pp:

0

Tags:

Ecotourism, Fish, Fisheries, Fisherfolk, Public Participation, Gujarat, Sustainable Development

Industry

Minutes of the second meeting of the "Gujarat Coastal Zone Management Authority" held on 28/09/2000 at Gandhinagar

Minutes of the second meeting of the "Gujarat Coastal Zone Management Authority" held on 28/09/2000 at Gandhinagar.

Publication Date:

28/09/2000

Source: Government of Gujarat

Tags:

Adani Port and SEZ Ltd, Kuchchh, Gujarat, Coastal Regulation Zone Notification

Industry

Environmental clearance for the proposed Port expansion project including dry/break bulk cargo container terminal, railway link and related ancillary and back-up facilities at Mundra Port, Gujarat by M/s Gujarat Adani Port Ltd. (20 Sept 2000)

Environmental clearance for the proposed Port expansion project including dry/break bulk cargo container terminal, railway link and related ancillary and back-up facilities at Mundra Port, Kutch District, Gujarat by M/s Gujarat Adani Port Ltd. (20 September 2000).

Publication Date:

20/09/2000

Source: Ministry of Environment and Forests

Tags:

Adani Port and SEZ Ltd, Environment Clearance (EC), Gujarat

Industry

New norms...

...are on the anvil for Gujarat s Amalakhari river

Publication Date:

14/09/2000

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Pollution Control, Rivers, Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Industry, Government Of India (GOI), Gujarat

India

Relocating lions

following the death of five lions in the Gujarat's Gir Sanctuary within a span of three months, the state forest department plans to shift some of the lions to the neighbouring Barda hill forest

Publication Date:

30/08/2000

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Carrying Capacity, Lion, Gir NP, Asia, Gujarat

Water Pollution

Pollution destroys crops

the Gujarat State Pollution Control Board has been forced to shut down Unimark Remedies, a chemical plant situated on the Ahmedabad-Bagodra highway. Pollution from the chemical plant has destroyed

Publication Date:

30/08/2000

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Water Pollution, Food Crops, Wheat, Chemical Industry, Government Of India (GOI), Gujarat

India

INDIA

Haryana government has set up a multi-discipline panel to identify long-term integrated strategies focusing on improved land, conservation and sustainable management of land and water resources.

Publication Date:

30/07/2000

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Planning, Gujarat

Water Resources