Students at Nehru Memorial Museum & Library were engaged in an interactive session on different aspects of water including learning how much (or little!) water there is for our consumption.
Adequate budget, staff, capacity; a monitoring framework; interdepartmental cooperation - all need to be in place for effective climate change mainstreaming, according to UP officials.
Heat extremes and groundwater scarcity are but two of the impacts of climate change affecting India. Technology, political will, and international cooperation are needed to reverse these impacts.
Latha Anantha was awarded the Bhagirath Prayas Samman for spearheading the campaign to save the Chalakudy river in Kerala, at the recently concluded India Rivers Week.