Water Resources

 Water wise in Uttarakhand

Scientific implementation of developmental programmes is needed for the optimal utilisation of water resources

Publication Date: 
14/04/1997
V C Goyal
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Himalaya, Fodder, Water Resources, Drinking Water Scarcity, Deforestation, Migration
India

 Taxus treat

A rare tree whose extracts are used for an anti cancer drug is being felled illegally

Publication Date: 
27/02/1997
Down to Earth
Tags:
Himalaya, Cancer, Drugs, Medicinal Plants
Water Resources

Dying wisdom: the state of India's environment fourth citizen's report

Dying Wisdom: Rise, Fall and Potential of India's Traditional Water Harvesting System provides a comprehensive overview of India's millennia-old traditions of water harvesting. This book triggered a nationwide interest in community-based water management.

for more: http://csestore.cse.org.in/usd/review/product/list/id/62/category/33/

Publication Date: 
Dec 1996
Anil Agarwal, Sunita Narain
Centre for Science and Environment
Tags:
Brahmaputra Valley, Deccan Plateau, Eastern Coastal Plains, Eastern Ghats, Himalaya, Indo-Gangetic Plains, Thar Desert, Western Coastal Plains, Western Ghats, Water Management, Traditional Water Harvesting, India
India

 Quaking mountains

The Himalayas are seismically an active mountain belt and require long term planning of townships and other long term measures to mitigate disasters

Publication Date: 
14/11/1996
Deepan Joshi
Down to Earth
Tags:
Himalaya, Earthquakes, India
India

 Steaming stones

Beneath the lofty Himalayan ranges lie extremely hot and radioactive rocks, the origin of which has remained a point of debate among geologists for years now. Recently, Audrey Huerta, a geophysicist

Publication Date: 
29/09/1996
Down to Earth
Tags:
Himalaya, Geology
India

 Here we come, eco chums!

Indigenous support systems that have been nourishing the Himalaya for centuries have become the current buzzword for progress

Publication Date: 
30/05/1996
Jay Prakash Panwar
Down to Earth
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19960531
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Tags:
Himalaya, Traditional Knowledge, India
Floods

Havoc in the Himalaya

Read this chapter from the report "floods, flood plains and environmental myths" published by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), that broke many myths about floods in the Himalaya.

Publication Date: 
01/01/1996
Centre for Science and Environment
Tags:
Floods, Himalaya, Garhwal, Natural Disasters, Dams, Bhagirathi, Alakananda, Ganga, Deforestation, Landslides, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Rivers
Agriculture

 A Himalayan plunder

RITA ANAND looks at changes in Himalayan forest cover in historical perspective, focusing on the Kaghan Valley in northern Pakistan

Publication Date: 
14/12/1995
Down to Earth
Tags:
Himalaya, Forest Resources, Deforestation, Population, History
India

 Rocking the Himalayas

Indian seismic experts are in a tizzy over predictions of an imminent gigantic earthquake in the central Himalayas

Publication Date: 
14/01/1995
Rahul Shrivastava
Down to Earth
Tags:
Himalaya, Earthquakes, India
Biodiversity

 Uphill task completed

IN THE past century, humans have polluted the oceans, poisoned rivers and lakes, made deserts of good, arable land, felled forests, and severely eroded the mountainsides. This book seeks to protect

Publication Date: 
14/09/1994
Anil Yadav
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Mountains, Himalaya, Asia

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