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Society, Culture, Religion and History
Protecting Pili river from land and pond encroachment
Posted on 27 Jul, 2010 02:50 AMdear all, I have sent several mail to concern department including minster jairam romesh regarding the Protecting PILI river , due to filling pond , taal , river land , dam to a river land encroachment in my village KOPA , Unfortunately, I still haven't received my reply .
5th Global YES Summit, Rework The World - A trip report
Posted on 26 Jul, 2010 11:17 PMHad the opportunity to attend a recent worldwide gathering on the topic of youth and social entrepreneurship, which gave much food for thought. The event was the 5th Global YES Summit, entitled “ReWork The World”. Details of the gathering are at www.reworktheworld.org . The message there was that we need to do something radical in order to find productive work for the vast numbers of youth coming into the workforce especially in developing nations. The new jobs cannot be of the old variety, they need to be green, sustainable jobs. In other words, we need to ‘rework the world’. The conference was based on the premise that these new jobs will come out of social entrepreneurship.
Jagatguru Shankaracharya Swami Swaroopanand and Swami Ramdev offer support to Dr. G.D. Agrawal on his fast unto death
Posted on 23 Jul, 2010 11:42 PMJagatguru Shankaracharya Swami Swaroopanand of Dwarkapeeth sent his personal emissary Swami Dharanand to convey his support to Dr. G.D. Agrawal whose third fast-unto-death to ensure the natural flow in river Bhagirathi (Ganga) from Gangotri to Uttarkashi entered its second day. Yesterday (July 21) Swami Ramdev spent an hour in the evening with Dr. Agrawal and offered his full support.
Relevance of Meltwater in River Basin Hydrology
Posted on 23 Jul, 2010 10:53 PMA peer paper in Science Magazine focuses on the core of a riverine system, the upstream basin, and its impact on the entire river basin.
Project Boond - V, a comprehensive mitigation initiative in the drought prone regions of Bharatpur
Posted on 21 Jul, 2010 01:47 PMWith the failure of monsoons in Rajasthan and dry-up of the Bilaspur dam, the water situation assumes graver proportions in most parts of Rajasthan, besides Jaipur, Tonk and adjacent districts. These areas, now in the news for acute water shortage problems, have always depended upon monsoons for their traditional rainwater-harvesting systems and the riverine sources.
While the Government has taken remedial measures with construction of tube-wells across the rural and drought-prone areas, they have been sporadic and insufficient at their best. Merely announcing relief measures and planning of schemes on paper as an immediate disaster management strategy are not solutions to mitigation of water problems in this State.
Prof G.D. Agrawal resumes fast unto death to save the Ganga, Swami Avimukteshwaranand and others to join in support
Posted on 21 Jul, 2010 11:10 AMForwarded to the Portal by: Ayan Biswas
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Shankracharya designate Swami Avimukteshwaranand ji presided over an emergency meeting organized by Manushi Sangathan, Ganga Ahvaan and Ganga Yamuna Jal Biradri to express our strong protest against the patently illegal decision of the Group of Ministers giving clearance to the Loharinag-Pala dam on the Ganga River. The following expert members of the NGRBA also participated in the meeting to express their strong protest having been kept in the dark about the appointment of the GoM which has passed a virtual death sentence on the most sacred river of India: Rashid Hyatt Siddiqui, Rajendra Singh, Rama Raota and Ravi Chopra.
A rapid geohydrological study of microwatersheds from Bolangir district, Orissa state - A report by ACWADAM
Posted on 16 Jul, 2010 03:50 PMThis document by ACWADAM is a report of a rapid geohydrological assessment of some of the microwatersheds from parts of Bolangir district Orissa.
Bolangir district in Orissa forms a part of one of the hottest and backward regions of India with low land-productivity, and opportunities and technologies for agriculture in the district remain relatively unexplored.
Vagaries of rainfall and the underlying hard-rock geology further compound the problem and limit agricultural productivity to a great extent. Given such natural uncertainties, systematic implementation of a watershed management programme is the most viable avenue to overcome the problems of this region.
Bolangir district was thus selected as pilot area to conduct a pre-feasibility exercise for planning of water resources management. ACWADAM, Pune was invited, along with Samaj Pragati Sahayog, Bagli to conduct this pre-feasibility exercise.
Providing a plan to save civilization - Books from the Earth Policy Institute
Posted on 11 Jul, 2010 05:24 AMEarth Policy Institute, is a non-profit environmental research organization dedicated to providing a vision of an eco-economy and a roadmap on how to get there. The Institute was founded in 2001 with the following goals:
- to provide a global plan (Plan B) for moving the world onto an environmentally and economically sustainable path
- to provide examples demonstrating how the plan would work, and
- to keep the media, policymakers, academics, environmentalists, and other decision-makers focused on the process of building a Plan B economy.
The basic research of the Institute has been published in the form of seven books:
A study of saline freshwater interface phenomena in the Mahanadi delta region (Orissa)
Posted on 10 Jul, 2010 10:40 PMThe subsurface aquifer systems in Mahanadi delta region in Orissa (India) is largely characterized by two groups of freshwater aquifer systems, both of which are prone to saline water mixing/migration with time and development:
- The south western Mahanadi delta region is represented by unconfined to semi-confined freshwater aquifers underlained by brackish/saline aquifer systems with a diffusion boundary.
- The north eastern parts of Mahanadi delta is represented by deep freshwater confined aquifers overlained by brackish/saline water aquifers with aquitard/ aquiclude boundary.
Groundwater management: The critical issue dealing with normative concerns of equity and sustainability in watershed development in India.
Posted on 02 Jul, 2010 04:31 PMABSTRACT