Similar research framework, with minor customization, could be applied to any other district in India. Meerut district, with a population of around 3.5 million people is in an abysmal state as the rivers and groundwater are highly polluted. The last resort--the traditional water bodies are also...
Bodies of water of brackish lagoons, marshes and deltas are lakes with an average salinity and mixture of freshwater and seawater. Notable brackish bodies of water in India are Chilika Lake in Odisha,Kutch Salt Marsh,Pulicat Lake of Andhra Pradesh and Kerala Backwaters. These brackish bodies o...
Out of an average of around 953 MGD of water that is produced in the city, around 40 percent or 389 MGD comes from the Yamuna. WATER STRESSED COUNTRY Indian government's top policy think tank National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog (commission) has predicted that India will ...
Three particular reforms in the state of Maharashtra in western India are discussed – the commercialization of a parastatal body, the concept of self-sufficiency as it plays out in the context of urban local bodies, and the working of the regulatory body in water. The analysis of these ...
To address this issue, we need to strengthen pesticide use management, promote scientific pesticide application techniques, reduce excessive pesticide use, raise farmers' environmental awareness to prevent pesticide waste from being directly discharged into water bodies, and strengthen water quality ...
open water bodies, the ratio of the annual sum of actual plant transpiration to precipitation (ETaP) and the spatial anomaly of LST. ETaP distinguishes pixels in which plant transpiration exceeds precipitation, indicating a likely reliance on groundwater, and LST distinguishes GDEs based on their co...
Also, she should approach the UN for getting back the river shoals captured by India. Bangladesh should have a master plan of dredging rivers and canals for water storage and inland distribution to the depleted surface water bodies to reestablish the wetland ecosystem. This will help, to some ...
Exoplanet surveys around M dwarfs have detected a growing number of exoplanets with Earth-like insolation. It is expected that some of those planets are rocky planets with the potential for temperate climates favourable to surface liquid water. However,
49or integrated water resources management (IWRM)10,50of inland water bodies and transboundary rivers at local, regional, and global scales. The delineation of AB and implementation of RRLCC thus wisely support the new definition of IUCN protected areas (PA) inclusive of fresh waters15....
As such, whereas it may be easier for plunge-divers to detect moving prey in clearer waters (Eriksson 1985), it may also be relatively easier for the prey to detect the approaching danger and escape the attack in less turbid water bodies (Katzir and Camhi 1993; Abrahams and Kattenfeld ...