A sperm whale was found washed ashore dead after swallowing 64 pounds of plastic debris. The male sperm whale was found on the Murcian coast in southern Spain in late February, reminding us how critical plastic waste in the oceans has become.
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By Reya Mehrotra
With no Cauvery water connection and borewells running dry, Green Glen Layout in Bellandur has got its forces together to catch every drop of rain. Various apartment complexes in the layout have taken up rainwater harvesting and each is doing it their own way. With each heavy rain, apartments in Green Glen Layout save more than 3,000-4,000 litres of rainwater and have installing meters to curb water usage.
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When the senses contact sense objects, a person experiences cold or heat or pain. These experiences are fleeting; they come and go. Bear them patiently.
Bhagavad Gita
The Philippines was able to save more than $1 billion in losses because of its natural systems, according to a World Bank report.
In its Lifelines: The Resilient Infrastructure Opportunity report released last week, the World Bank and the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) noted that “combining infrastructure with nature-based solutions” reduces countries investment needs.
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https://www.manilatimes.net/mangroves-reefs-reduce-losses-from-disasters-World-Bank/573837/
Are we repeating the same mistakes again and again. Right now Chennai is facing the worst water crisis in history. It has 3 Rivers, 4 Reservoirs, 5 Wetlands, 6 Forests. One of the reasons for both the drought and earlier floods in Chennai, was because of real estate encroachment in Wetlands and around Reservoirs. Now read this Hindustan Times report, to find out what is happening in Maharashtra
Manohar Khushalani was a Panelist in a discussion on Niti Aayog report on Loksabha TV
https://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ani/no-drinking-water-will-be-available-by-2030-if-we-don-t-conserve-now-report-119062000071_1.html
GEOTHERMAL ENERGY has been used for thousands of years in some countries for cooking and heating. It is simply power derived from the Earth’s internal heat.
This thermal energy is contained in the rock and fluids beneath Earth’s crust. It can be found from shallow ground to several miles below the surface, and even farther down to the extremely hot molten rock called magma.
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/geothermal-energy/
precipitation from the atmosphere. Some countries have large fresh water resources. The benefits these countries enjoy due to their vast fresh water resources are numerous.
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-with-the-most-freshwater-resources.html
https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/energy/will-new-categorisation-of-hydropower-plants-lead-to-sector-s-revival–65074
Prof. Manohar Khushalani, Editor, OneVorld, was interviewed extensively by the wire service, ANI, on the looming Water crisis in India. His interview forms part of it’s report circulated to all newspapers and news media in India and abroad.
He advocated water harvesting at community and individual level, quoting his own example, about how he built his own water harvesting in his home, as far back as 2003
No drinking water will be available by 2030 if we don’t conserve now: Report
The government is depending upon the desalination in Chennai which is very expensive also however they forget that the earth is a limited planet and oceans will dry. What will we leave for our children and grandchildren? We may have a lot of money but we cannot ask our children to drink money instead of water. Using ocean water and desalination is not the solution but water harvesting is” said former director of National Water Academy Professor Manohar Khushalani.
“It is a collective responsibility of the government and people of the country to save water and contribute to increasing the groundwater levels,” he added.
Mr Khushalani is presently working as professor in Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi and has also authored books ”Irrigation Practice and Design in five volumes”. (Published by Oxford & IBH Sponsored by NBT)
“It is not very difficult and expensive to harvest rainwater. One can easily do it commonly in group housing societies or individually. We will just have to make our heart little bigger and more responsible to be thinking about our next generation,” the professor told ANI.
He has made a water harvesting structure inside his residence, in which he has been harvesting rainwater since 2003, helping the raise the groundwater level in his area.
“I made this water harvesting structure in 2003 when my sixty feet deep tube well dried up. I decided to put all rain water collected on my terrace into it. There are two conditions in doing rainwater harvesting. Number one, first rainwater should not go into it, secondly filtered water should go into the ground otherwise it will contaminate the groundwater. The rainwater which is collected on my terrace flows through a pipe which is connected to the bore. After sixty feet, the soil filters the water by itself. The water which falls from the terrace or from height should be harvested but not the water on the roads during rains because it carries lots of dirt with it which may lead to groundwater contamination,” he said.
Mr Khushalani further suggested that the regions which are facing drought should not do farming of sugarcane as it absorbs a lot of groundwater. “By becoming aware today we can avert the danger tomorrow,” he concluded.
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Manohar Khushalani Recommends Water Harvesting
The ANI report has been featured in a large number of newspapers such as Pioneer, NDTV, First Post, New Indian Express.
http://www.pioneernews.in/21-indian-cities-will-run-out-of-groundwater-by-2020-report
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/21-indian-cities-will-run-out-of-groundwater-by-2020-report-2056129