A Political Drought During one of the meetings of the World Water Commission, which recently ...... |
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What is drought? Droughts can be of three kinds:- (i) Meteorological drought: This happens when the actual rainfall in an area is significantly less than the climatological mean of that area ... |
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Lessons learnt Following the monsoon failure of 1999-2000, two states Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh launched crash programmes to encourage water harvesting. An appreciable shift, becaus... |
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... harvesting. But the message was one on governance. And a truly stark one. If only India could learn from it ... |
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Inhumanly Mismanaged In India, from the 19th century onward, the paradigm of managing water has followed ...... |
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Inhumanly Mismanaged In India, from the 19th century onward, the paradigm of managing water has followed ...... |
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Any land anywhere can be used to harvest rainwater The fundamental reason: extend the fruits of the monsoon The basic principle: Catch water where it falls NEWS Compiled clippings DTE A... |
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... Thar Desert covers an area of 44.6 million hectare (mha), of which 27.8 mha lie in India and the rest in Pakistan. The desert is bounded by the Aravalli hills in ...... |
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... revival of traditional water harvesting systems in various ecological zones of India. Communities in the face of adversity have revived or created new ... |
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Forgetting Science Indian politicians take great pride in the country being a major scientific nation, what with all the nuclear power plants, missiles and atomic bombs that we build and ... |
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