MUMBAI, Jun 30 (Xinhua) -- Water scarcity in India is turning into a grave crisis leading to a possible halting of residential construction in some cities and rising migration in rural areas due to farm distress. In the country's southern city of Bengaluru -- capital of Karnataka state, th...
Chand Baori is a 64-foot deep well that is accessible via several flights of stairs. It is located 100 miles west of Agra and 60 miles east of Jaipur. Baori means stepwell while Chand represents King Chanda of the Gujara Pratihara clan. He ruled much of Northern Medieval India when the...
Water scarcityNongpok SekmaiPublic healthIllegal miningRainwater harvestingCommunity awarenessMulti-pronged approachThis study examines the critical issue of water scarcity and its impact on public health in Nongpok Sekmai and surrounding villages in India. Despite government initiatives to provide universal...
water scarcitywater supply managementAgainst the discussion on the rationale and scope for water demand and supply management in India, this paper provides a brief overview of the status and effectiveness, as well as the technical, institutional and financial requirements of six demand management ...
The first day in India we went to Seghal Foundation's headquarters in Gurugram. Here, we listened to presentations about SMSF's work and projects. We then learned how to use the sensors we would be using in the field in the following weeks. ...
"In India, thermal coal power plants are by far the largest consumers of water as the country heavily relies on coal-based power generation," the report pointed out. "As water shortages worsen, coal power plants in water-stressed areas can face operational disruptions during droughts when securi...
作者: C Science 摘要: The research account by Garg and Hassan on water scarcity in India is based on the tables and figures of the Central Water Commission (CWC), Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) and National Commission on Agriculture (NCA) which were published during 1976收藏...
Assuring Sustainable Economic Benefit for Farmers by Using Ground Water in Semi-Arid, Hard Rock Areas in India & the Role of UNESCO-IUGS-IGCP Project 523 G... Out of about 1.2 billion people in India, 68% people live on agriculture as their main occupation. Ground water is therefore an ...
(1996) Global water scarcity: issues and implications with special reference to India. Verh. int. Ver. Limnol. 26: pp. 115-121Biswas, S. P., 1996. Global water scarcity: issues and implica- tions with special reference to India. Verhandlungen der Internationalen Vereinigung fu¨ r ...
In many places water is becoming scarcer. Treating it as a right makes the scarcity worse. Ideally, efficient water use would be encouraged by charging for it, but attempts to do so have mostly proved politically impossible. A more practicable alternative is a system of tradable waterusage rig...