Myriad Challenges of the Coasts of India
Monitoring from space, aerial and in situ platforms in coastal regions will help develop models for interactions between ecological and anthropogenic processes, helping sustainable management of coast...
Our Fragile Coasts: Scientific Approaches and Solutions
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Need of Flood Warning System for Coastal Metropolis
Integrated Flood Warning System (IFLOWS) is an integrated GIS-based decision support system developed for Chennai and Mumbai that provides flood inundation scenarios and helps state governments to put...
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Water Governance Role of Panchayats
Water is life giving. Planning for it is a collective responsibility. Panchayati Raj Institutions and the decentralized planning through active participation of community members provide some clues to...
Thinking Water Thinking Women
Several scholars have suggested that there is intrinsic affinity between women and nature and both are subordinated by patriarchal processes, women by men and nature by culture – an ideological positi...
Freshwater News
An update on recent happenings in the of world fresh water in the national perspective.
Cloudburst
Cloudbursts or downpours have no strict meteorological definition. The term usually signifies a sudden, heavy fall of rain over a short period of time. A localised weather phenomena, cloudbursts leads...
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