In the desert state of Rajasthan, authorities started a train service to ferry water to Pali district, which is presently facing the worst water crisis. Reports said all sustainable water resources have almost dried up in the last decade in the district. The water scarcity began in March this ...
IndiainstitutionsNational River Linking Projectwater demand managementwater 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, ...
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...
Naina: The plan for today was to visit the check dam in the village of Baiwala ki Dhani in Alwar. One team was to take infiltration measurements and the others were to continue testing water from various wells in this area. Something that helped get us through the day was a nice cup o...
The report also cited data by independent agencies pointing out that the country's nearly 70 percent of water is contaminated, which puts India at the 120th position among 122 countries in the water quality index. The low performing states are mainly the populous ones like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar...
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...
(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 ...
water scarcity all year round (Mekonnen and Hoekstra, 2016). These figures nearly double previous estimates, in part by considering the flows required to remain in rivers to sustain flow-dependent ecosystems, as well as the goods and services they provide for people. In most, though not all ...
Understanding the effects of human pressures and climate change on global urban water scarcity and quality risks in an integrated way is important. Objectives The objective of this study is to assess the scarcity and quality risks to water security for 304 large cities (population > 1 ...
national hydrological model to quantify sub-basin-level river depletion, finding high-to-severe levels of irrigation scarcity in 30% of sub-basins in the western United States, with cattle-feed crops—alfalfa and other hay—being the largest water consumers in 57% of the region’s sub-basins....