Water Resources

Rainwater harvesting a must for Pune

Pune is a water-rich city with four dams and three rivers supplying water.

Publication Date: 
22/03/2011
Daily News Analysis (Mumbai)
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Pune (D), Maharashtra, Water Harvesting, Water Conservation, Watershed Development, Municipal Corporation
Environment

Earth economist: The food bubble is about to burst





Publication Date: 
05/02/2011
Alison George
New Scientist
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Agriculture, Environment, Groundwater, Population, Livestock, Bio Fuel Crops, Water Pricing, Water Conservation, Energy, Irrigation
Energy

Haryana to be power self-reliant by 12: CM

Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Wednesday said that efforts were being made to make the state self-reliant in power by 2012.

Publication Date: 
28/01/2011
Financial Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Faridabad (D), Haryana, Energy, Water Conservation, Horticulture, Sutlej Yamuna Link, Thermal Power Plants, Compensation, Rehabilitation
Energy

Energy and water supply services: improving efficiency through policy and regulation

Energy efficiency and water conservation are each important for the delivery of electricity and drinking water. Energy efficiency can increase affordability by reducing consumers

Publication Date: 
01/06/2010
Asian Development Bank
Tags:
Water Conservation, Energy Efficiency, Water Supply, Electricity, India, Global, Manila, Asian Development Bank, Energy
Environment

CM's call to conserve environment

With creating awareness of environment among people, the Delhi Chief Minister, Mrs Sheila Dikshit, today exhorted them to come forward to preserve and conserve environment of the earth planet. She further exhorted them to make rational use of natural resources to ensure better future. She said that her government would introduce water-harvesting scheme in 205 schools in the Capital for which an amount of Rs 40 crore has been earmarked.

Publication Date: 
24/04/2008
Statesman (New Delhi)
Tags:
Water Conservation, CFL, Energy, Environment Education, Delhi

2008: Year of Sanitation

The United Nations has announced 2008 as the Year of Sanitation.

Publication Date: 
23/03/2008
New Indian Express (Chennai)
Tags:
Water Conservation, Toilets, Sanitation, UN
Governance And Institutions

 Drought fails to crush a Bundelkhand village

Uttar Pradesh's Bundelkhand region has been devastated by drought and other adverse weather conditions over the past four years. Madhaiya Anghela village in Madhogarh sub-division of Jalaun district

Publication Date: 
28/02/2008
Bharat Dogra
Down to Earth
Tags:
Agriculture, Natural Fertilisers, Livestock, Water Conservation, Check Dam, Drought, Farmers, Governance And Institutions, Public Participation, NGO, India, Uttar Pradesh, Jalaun
Solid Waste

 Zero waste toilets developed by IIT Kanpur

IIT Kanpur develops zero-waste toilets that reuse flushed water and recycle waste.
IIT Kanpur develops zero-waste toilets that reuse flushed water and recycle waste

Publication Date: 
30/01/2008
Savvy Soumya Misra
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Conservation, Toilets, Solid Waste, Waste Treatment, Indian Institute Of Technology (IIT), India, Kanpur (D)
Industry

 The laboratory of development

How will vast regions of India, where highly unreliable rainfall makes the difference between famine and sustenance, cope with climate change? Over 85 per cent of the cultivated area in this country

Publication Date: 
30/12/2007
Sunita Narain
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Wheat, Sugarcane, Groundwater Recharge, Water Conservation, Water Harvesting, Rural Water Harvesting, Check Dam, Afforestation, Watershed Development, Drought Management, Rural Development, Governance And Institutions, Public Participation, Panchayats, Maharashtra, Ahmadnagar (D), Rainfall Pattern, Rainfall
Forests

 Saga of two villages

DTE tracks the developments in Sukhomajri which became a model of self-reliant development in the 1980s due to successful management of ecological wealth by HRMS. But the situation has changed now. The forest department has hijacked the forest created by the villagers, while control of water is going into private hands.

Publication Date: 
14/11/2007
Down to Earth
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Forests, Fodder, Livestock, Water Conservation, Water Harvesting, Dams, Forest Management, Forest Conservation, Rural Development, Public Participation, Governance, Haryana, Sustainable Development, Statistics

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