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Tarun Bharat Sangh of Alwar is well known for its work on reviving traditions of waterharvesting. But few know about the economic advantages of the water harvesting structures it has built and promoted in villages. For every Rs 100 invested in small e

How TBS helped communities revive the rural environment

When villages work with each other to regenerate the environment, there are unexpected blessings. Sometimes, they are as big as a river

THE Tokushima City Assembly in Japan turned down a request from local residents for a referendum on whether to replace a 250-year-old dam on the Yoshino River. Twenty-two of the 40 assembly members

The 21st century in India will be more like the 15th, better managed and wealthier, with much less trappings of the Western state

The government destroys natural resources; when villagers revive these, it reasserts ownership. This is an official loot of nature

In the present study, the temporal patterns of monsoon floods on five large rivers of the Deccan Peninsula have been investigated. Analyses of the long-term annual maximum discharge/state data, available for the last 100 years or so, show non-random behaviour in terms of distinct periods of high and low floods.

An ambitious reforestation plan has been unveiled in China. All logging in non-commercial woodlands will be banned soon. State forestry bureau director Wang Zhibao said the plan would

People of Deukhuri valley in Nepal are putting pressure on the Village Development Chairman (VDQ to check salutation in Rapti river. local people are demanding Rs 300, 000 out of the Rs

Floods are bad. But embarkments only make matters worse

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