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 A meeting of minds on rivers

The recently held Dhaka summit, sponsored by the Global Infrastructure Research Foundation, addressed the critical question of exploiting the potential of eastern Himalayan rivers and took positive steps towards identifying key projects and consensus on i

Publication Date: 
30/01/1994
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Water Resources, NGO, Bangladesh, India
Water Resources

 A village the authorities dare not enter

Vachati village, where the residents openly defy the authorities, has acquired a reputation for collective smuggling.

Publication Date: 
29/11/1993
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Water Resources

 A little common sense

Recycling water and chemicals has resulted in drastic reduction of effluents from Surat's textile units.

Publication Date: 
14/11/1993
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Pollution Control, Textile Industry, Surat (D)
Water Resources

 War over water

The issue of sharing West Asia's water resources threatens to explode into another Arab Israeli war, which will shatter the semblance of peace settling over the region.

Publication Date: 
30/10/1993
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Deserts, Water Resources, Irrigation, Conflicts, Asia, Israel
Water Resources

Groundwater depletion in Punjab

While the cultivation of paddy in Punjab (and Haryana) does need some curbing, the extreme forebodings of either total groundwater exhaustion in Punjab or of the state turning into a desert of paddy growing is not curbed forthwith are unwarranted.

Publication Date: 
30/10/1993
B D Dhawan
Economic and Political Weekly
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44
2397-2401
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Agriculture, Groundwater Irrigation, Punjab, Haryana, Rice, Wheat, Hydrology, Soil Capability, Drought, Water Demand, Rivers, Groundwater Recharge
Water Resources

 Running out

Unless better management strategies are evolved, water scarcity in the country will only be accentuated by growing industrial and municipal demands.

Publication Date: 
14/10/1993
Uday Shankar
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Resources, Sabarmati, Water Management, Drinking Water Scarcity, Irrigation
Water Resources

 The politics of globalisation

POLITICIAN, economist and teacher all rolled into one Johannes Pieter Pronk, better known as Jan Pronk, is in his second term as Netherlands minister for development cooperation. He has held the position of deputy secretary general of UNCTAD and has bee

Publication Date: 
29/09/1993
Sumanta Pal
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Development, Trade, GATT, Netherlands
Water Resources

 The embankment war

If the mid-August assault on some officials of the Bihar water resources department, on an inspection tour of the eastern Kosi embankment in Saharsa, is anything to go by, flood control officials in

Publication Date: 
29/09/1993
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Resources, Floods, Flood Control, Bihar
Water Resources

 Keeper of the nation's water kitty

MADHAV Chitale, former secretary in the ministry of water resources, is a recipient of The Stockholm Water Award, given by the Stockholm Water Foundation for outstanding work in the area of water management. Currently secretary general of the Internationa

Publication Date: 
14/09/1993
Sumanta Pal
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19930915
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Water Resources, Groundwater, Water Management, Water Conservation, Population, Rehabilitation
India

 India blamed for Nepal's slow development

Cheap hydroelectric power in the Himalayan region will not be forthcoming in the near future, going by the proceedings OF a seminar hold recently in Nepal.

Publication Date: 
14/04/1993
Daniel Nelson
Down to Earth
Tags:
Himalaya, Water Resources, Hydroelectricity, Exports, Bangladesh, India

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