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Drought
The Indian way for Africa?
Issue Date: Aug 31, 1996
african nations could possibly find some avenue out of the endless series of droughts, under-production of food and resultant civil wars, if they manage to emulate India by urgently acquiring and utilising appropriate food technologies to boost production, preservation, packaging and distribution of local food stuff.
The wasted land
Issue Date: Mar 31, 1996
THE mythic origins of Jodhpur's water crisis go back to the time when the Rao Jodha clan laid claim to the rocky outcrop that was to be the-Mehrangarh fort about 500 years ago. But to do so, they first had to dislodge the forts only inhabitant Chidiya Nathji1 a savant beloved by the birds of the hill. N athji left1 but a curse fell upon the city: drought1 and not once1 but every three years.
INDIA
Issue Date: Nov 30, 1995
Aquatic weeds need no longer be just
a nuisance. Kaiser Jamil, a scientist
from the Indian Institute of Chemical
Technology, Hyderabad, reports that
weeds such as water hyacinth can
remove toxic inorganic and organic
pollutants from waterbodies.
Air pollution ruins medicinal plants,
says a study conducted by the botany
department of the Jamia Hatudard
College. The study shows that airpollotion causes various illnesses and
decreases the curative chemicals in
plants.
The Sultanpur National Park in
Gurgaon is fast vanishing. Data collected in six different years, between
Water way
Issue Date: Aug 31, 1995
With the delayed monsoons and the threat of drought looming large over India, K 81kram Singh's first independent feature film, Tarpan, was premiered in July at the most appropriate time. Singh uses tarpan - the practice of offering water to the dead ancestors - as a metaphor to relate how the forces of compassion have to struggle against orthodoxy and superstition.
Cropped harvest
Issue Date: Jul 15, 1995
AT least 2 million tonnes of loss of rice production is feared in Bangladesh during the current kharif-1 -- a drought which has left small rivers, mostly canals, creeks and ponds dry and rendered hundreds of thousands of pumps used for lifting ground water for irrigation and drinking, dry because of fall of ground water table.
SUMMERTIME WOES
Issue Date: Jun 30, 1995
A long summer of discontent seems to be in store for residents of Pakistan's capital, Islamabad. Last year, the city's Simly Dam reservoir had dropped to a record low level because of a prolonged drought. Despite recent rains, water tankers are still visible on the streets of the city's 22 residential districts. To tide over the crisis, the government plans to dig an additional 50 wells around the city and bring water in from the Khanpur Dam reservoir, about 60 kms away.
ZIMBABWE
Issue Date: Apr 30, 1995
Zimbabwe is
gearing up for a bone dry
period ahead. A so-called
rainy season actually left the
country high and dry, and
turned out to be drier than
the great drought of 1992.
And the department ofwater
has let out the alarming news
that the country's dams are
on the average only 20 per
cent full. The situation has
reached a point where the
need to conserve water has
become the focal point of
campaigning by the candidates for the elections scheduled for April 8 and 9.
Harare, the country's
capital, has been particularly
hard hit by the water crunch.
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's 2nd
CHILE
Issue Date: Apr 15, 1995
You can't tilt against these windmills. A good wind has literally swept into the lives of the inhabitants of Chile's Coquimbo region as 31 windmills have been set spinning to pump water. Some of the ranchers in this drought-stricken area spend more than 8 hours a day drawing up the precious fluid. Now the windmills, an integral part of a support project sponsored by the United Nations Development Programme, will make water easily available for the people of Coquimbo.
Drought down under
Issue Date: Nov 30, 1994
Australia is in the grip of a severe drought. Recently, food production has decreased sharply, prices have soared and there has been water shortages and
Flowering in concrete jungles bush fires in the eastern parts of the country.
