Vowing to protect

COMMUNITY leadership at its grassroots level have a major role to play in the Climate Risk Management Act 2008, drafted by the Climate Change Department of MS Swaminathan Research Foundation. Talking to journalists here on Monday professor Swaminathan , said the draft model act ("draft for consideration, adaptation and possible adoption by the State Government'') for local level climate risk management was drafted by the participants of the inter-disciplinary dialogue on "Community management of climate change, role of Panchayats and Nagarpalikas'' conducted by the institution recently.

The Department of Botanical and Environmental Sciences of Guru Nanak Dev University organised a workshop on

Cyprus, facing its worst drought in a decade, will start importing water from Greece within the next two months, Agriculture Minister Michalis Polinikis said on Monday. Reservoirs are dangerously low and the crisis has forced emergency water rationing and sped up plans by Cyprus to desalinate more seawater. Its two desalination plants are already running at full capacity. "We are looking at many options to find conclusive solutions to this issue," Polinikis told reporters.

State Finance Minister Raghavji presiding over a block level conference under Jalabhishek Abhiyan at village Raipur under Funda Block dedicated an additional room in government high school. The in charge Minister of Bhopal, Raghavji, MP, Kailash Joshi and MLA, Bhaktpal Singh performed Bhoomi Poojan of pond's deepening under Rashtriya Gramin Rozgar Guarantee Scheme of Rs 1,00,000 and construction work of three wells with cost of Rs 3,56,000.

Climate change could have "severe implications" for the Irish economy if its effects on water supply are not addressed, an expert has warned. Water supplies could be stretched by climate change Dr Conor Murphy, climate change expert and hydrologist, outlined his fears to the annual Engineers Ireland Conference in Limerick.

It's Earth Day on April 22 and we are no better off. Global warming is a larger threat than terrorism because it will affect each one of us. In India, the Ganges would dry up by 2030, according to UNFCCC.

The bitterness between Orissa and Andhra Pradesh over sharing the water of river Mahendratanaya has reached flashpoint with the Andhra Pradesh government going ahead with its irrigation project. Andhra Pradesh chief minister, YS Rajasekhar Reddy, laid the foundation stone for the Rs 127-crore irrigation project across the Mahendratanaya in Srikakulam district recently. In retaliation, the Orissa government has decided to construct two diversion weirs for instant utilisation of water as an interim measure.

Coca Cola India CEO ATUL SINGH sees water harvesting as one of the best alternatives to resolve the crisis IN INDIA, 17 PERCENT of the population shares less than four percent of the world's freshwater resource. Even if we get good rainfall, the water does not recharge the ground water locally; it goes elsewhere and at times leads to miseries. Only 11 percent of ground water of the country is replenishable and rest of the water goes as runoff due to lack of sufficient infrastructure and hydro-geological conditions.

Contrary to expectations, a microscopic plant that lives in oceans around the world may thrive in the changing ocean conditions of the coming decades, a team of scientists reported on Thursday. The main threat to many marine organisms is not global warming but ocean acidification, as carbon dioxide from the air dissolves into the water and turns into carbonic acid.