Puri
Longest toilet queue campaign by WaterAid Orissa in Puri
Posted on 07 Apr, 2010 04:06 PMThe World's Longest Toilet Queue on 20th March 2010 at Puri sea beach.
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Press Release : Water Initiatives Orissa
Posted on 05 Jun, 2009 12:15 AMGuest Post by: Ranjan Panda
Sambalpur 27.5.2009
What 'Water Initiatives Orissa (WIO)' had found out three years ago have been substantiated now by a World Bank report, titled 'Climate Change Impacts in Drought and Flood Affected Areas: Case Studies in India'. The World Bank report , which took Orissa as a case study of flooding in a climate change scenarios - has referred to projections that 'temperatures, precipitation, and flooding are likely to increase, with adverse impacts on crop yields and farm incomes. Among the more substantial effects is a spatial shift in the pattern of rainfall towards the already flood-prone coastal areas'. Three years ago the WIO had found out significant increase in average annual rainfall in coastal districts like Baleswar and Puri. Now the World Bank report has projected 23 per cent increase in annual mean rainfall in that region.