Water Resources

In Court

rapped for laxity: The Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) has received a sharp reprimand from the Delhi High Court (HC) for failing to ensure the closure of polluting units in the capital. The

Publication Date:

14/05/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

12

Issue:

20040515

pp:

0

Tags:

Pollution Control, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Public Interest Litigation (PIL), High Court, Delhi, Kerala

Water Resources

Narrow view

Expert opinion ignored in talks on Jarawa tribe s future

Publication Date:

14/05/2004

Author(s): Sanjib Kumar Roy

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Andaman Islands, Tribals, Legislation, High Court, Human Rights, Government Of India (GOI), NGO

Water Resources

Shoring up

The Baltic Sea, bar Russian waters, was declared a Particularly Sensitive Sea Area (pssa) at the 51st session of the International Maritime Organization's Marine Environment Protection Committee in

Publication Date:

14/05/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

12

Issue:

20040515

pp:

0

Tags:

Water Resources, Baltic Sea

Water Resources

Is water use sustainable?

No. In the last 100 years, global population tripled, but freshwater use increased sixfold

Publication Date:

14/05/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

12

Issue:

20040515

pp:

0

Tags:

Water Resources, Water Distribution, Drinking Water, Statistics

India

In a pickle

Mango crop runs into rough weather

Publication Date:

14/05/2004

Author(s): T V Jayan

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Water Resources, Mango, Climate Change, India, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Climate

Water Resources

Forecast bright, foresight lacking

At a time when water levels in most of the country's reservoirs have plummeted below their 10-year average, the Union government still seems to be on the high it got from last year's

Publication Date:

14/05/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Water Resources, Monsoons, India

Industry

Developing politics: Election 2004 is not the end

Elections always teach lessons. The outcome of the 2004 polls is still a few days away but we have already learnt from media reports that the water scarcity has left a countrywide imprint. The crying

Publication Date:

14/05/2004

Author(s): Sunita Narain

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

12

Issue:

20040515

pp:

24

Tags:

Environment, Water Management, Politics, India, Water Resources

Water Resources

Kolleru lake is vanishing a revelation through digital processing of IRS-1D LISS-III sensor data

Digital processing of the IRS-1D LISS-III image revealed a highly degraded state of the Kolleru lake.

Publication Date:

10/05/2004

Author(s): K. Nageswara Rao, G. Murali Krishna, B. Hema Malini

Source: Current Science

Vol:

86

Issue:

9

pp:

1312

Tags:

Wetlands, Land Reclamation, Godavari Delta, Krishna Delta, Agriculture, Weeds, Water Resources, Lakes, Aquaculture, Remote Sensing, Andhra Pradesh

Water Resources

Speed feat

An unmanned supersonic jet has startled the world with a flight speed seven times more than that of sound (Mach 7). The us' National Aeronautics and Space Administration (nasa) successfully tested

Publication Date:

29/04/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

12

Issue:

20040430

pp:

0

Tags:

Space Technology, United States Of America (US), NASA

Water Resources