Mumbai As the state is reeling under severe water shortage, the state government has decided to check whether seawater can be desalinated to tackle water woes.

The objective of this study is to broadly inform groundwater resources managers, engineers, policymakers and politicians world-wide on the subject of managing saline groundwater with the aim to enhance their general understanding, promote early diagnosis of possible changes and widen their inspiration for selecting effective measures for intervention (as far as required).

Chilika lagoon, along the east coast of India, is the largest brackish water lagoon in Asia. Hydrodynamics of an aquatic system like Chilika is extremely important. It has significant impact on sediment and pollutant transport, distribution of nutrients in water and sediments, and the productivity of the system.

Present study consist the spatial and temporal variations of depth, temperature and salinity, currents, flushing times and classification of the Krishna estuary. Temperature exhibited a distinct seasonal variation with higher values in premonsoon (30.0

Soil salinity and falling global prices push farmers to agriculture An increasing number of shrimp farmers in Bangladesh are going back to paddy farming. They don

No relief materials reached many remote areas in the south and south-west left battered by tidal surges whipped up by cyclone Aila even three days after the inundation in which thousands of people were marooned without food and drinking water.
The unofficial death toll rose to 178. The disaster management ministry on Thursday confirmed the death of 147 people.

The discharge of heavily contaminated domestic and industrial waste into Phuleli Canal in Hyderabad continues unabatedly and no relevant authority has taken notice of the grave threat this situation poses.

A large portion of the province, particularly the lower Sindh, has brackish and saline underground water due to the influence of the sea and water shortage in the Indus River.

Although there were less incidences of diarrhea in the city for last few days, the number of patients is likely to increase gradually over the next few days due to use of contaminated water, physicians at the ICDDR'B apprehended yesterday.

Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) has successfully established a network of water resources in Cholistan desert by constructing around 100 specially designed reservoirs.

THIS is apropos of the report,

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