Water Resources

Dying wisdom: the state of India's environment fourth citizen's report

Dying Wisdom: Rise, Fall and Potential of India's Traditional Water Harvesting System provides a comprehensive overview of India's millennia-old traditions of water harvesting. This book triggered a nationwide interest in community-based water management.

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Publication Date:

Dec 1996

Author(s): Anil Agarwal, Sunita Narain

Source: Centre for Science and Environment

Tags:

Brahmaputra Valley, Deccan Plateau, Eastern Coastal Plains, Eastern Ghats, Himalaya, Indo-Gangetic Plains, Thar Desert, Western Coastal Plains, Western Ghats, Water Management, Traditional Water Harvesting, India

Water Resources

Soot, loath and eyewash

DIESELMANIA is the epidemic that our cities forget to control when their roads get choked with soot-spewing contraptions running on subsidised diesel. They suffer not one but

Publication Date:

30/12/1996

Author(s): Max Martin

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

5

Issue:

19961231

pp:

0

Tags:

Vehicular Pollution, CSE

India

Backs to the wall

Kerala's backwaters are one of its most prized possessions. But they are fighting for survival today, with reclamation for the purposes of development and commerce increasingly choking them off

Publication Date:

30/12/1996

Author(s): M Ajith Kumar

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

5

Issue:

19961231

pp:

0

Tags:

Water Resources, Fisheries, India, Kerala

India

All rivers to Delhi?

In their greed for more water for the capital city, planners duck the question of wasteful expenditure of local water sources

Publication Date:

30/12/1996

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Water Resources, Yamuna, Urban Water Supply, India, Delhi

Water Resources

Checking the damage

MANTHAN se Pravah (strength from struggle) is a film on a number of largely women-based initiatives for revitalising drinking water resources in different parts of Gujarat. Remarkable in concept, the

Publication Date:

14/12/1996

Author(s): Himanshu Thakkar

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

5

Issue:

19961215

pp:

0

Tags:

Water Resources, Drinking Water, Gujarat

India

Farce on wrong flows

The issue of interbasin transfer of water in India has got muddied by controversies and official indolence

Publication Date:

14/12/1996

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Water Resources, India

Water Resources

The can conned

the colour is unmistakably red. The screaming television advertisements sell a lifestyle that makes red the desirable colour, the lifestyle "we've all been waiting for' and renders drinking Coke

Publication Date:

14/10/1996

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

5

Issue:

19961015

pp:

0

Tags:

Hazardous Products

Water Resources

A step towards nowhere

The Global Water Partnership (gwp) was launched with the first consultative group meeting held in Stockholm on August 9 this year. The idea of the gwp was conceived at the fifth Stockholm Water

Publication Date:

14/10/1996

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Water Resources, Global

Water Resources