Q&A and Discussion Forums

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Natural resources are limited and considering industrialization and global warming we should start focusing on preserving natural resources or need to find out optimum way to utilize these resources.

Earth, tree and water are linked to each other and due to vast industrialization we are breaking the nature rules now the time has come to give back or restore our natural resources.

The term skimming well is used for any technique employed with an intention to extract relatively freshwater from the upper zone of the fresh-saline aquifer. The types of skimming wells include: the conventional single strainer well, multi-strainers wells, scavenger wells, radial collector wells and dug wells.

The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (www.cag.gov.in) is starting a performance Audit on "Pollution of ground water, lakes and rivers in India". CAG has invited citizens to point out specific problems / issue regarding water pollution affecting them or the environment.

Forum for Policy Dialogue on Water Conflicts (Forum) in India, in collaboration with the Chalakudi Puzha Samrakshan Samiti and Kerala State Resource Centre of the Forum, is organizing a Training Programme on Understanding and Resolving Water Conflicts from 5 to 8 April 2010 in Kerala (the exact location in Kerala would be announced later).

Please see the letter addressed to Jairam Ramesh by Rajendra SInghji on Athirappilly Issue when he visited the river and the dam site on the 8th December. To read the letter Click Here.

Sometome back, in one of the interviews discussing large dams (with ADB) Ramaswamy Iyer said,

The survey was done using a closed-ended questionnaire which was administered to key stakeholders including teachers, school children and sometimes the SDMC (School Development and Management Committee) members. All government and aided schools were included in the survey.