Restoring of irrigation channel demanded. CHITRAL: Irrigation channel has been damaged for village Jagomi Barinus due to land sliding after heavy earthquake at Chitral as a result 3 houses were totally and 5 partially damaged and cultivable land along with water channel also damaged of 9 families. Besides it irrigation channel of 450 […]
Deepwater Horizon Rig Disaster Threatens Drilling
BP Plc last September tapped into a new oilfield called Tiber, estimated to hold at least 3 billion barrels of crude, or six months’ worth of U.S. consumption. Discovered through seismic imaging and data crunched on a supercomputer, the field is almost six miles (9.6 kilometers) beneath the Gulf of Mexico’s floor, in a spot […]
J&K Governor working for restoring glory of Dal-Nagin Lake
Srinagar, March 27(Scoop News) — The Governor, N. N. Vohra today said that for generating awareness about the Dal-Nageen Conservation and Management Project, it is very important that the University and College students are associated with the awareness programme. Further, appropriate information about these conservation-oriented initiatives must be regularly disseminated through the print and electronic […]
Nigeria: The lack of drinking water and dangers of water boreholes
strategist@afripol.org www.afripol.org In classical physics, the study of fundamental principle of matter gave us the law of conservation of matter which states that matter can neither be created nor destroyed. Water is a matter and the quantity of water in Nigeria has not been altered. Therefore when we say that we lack water in Nigeria, it […]
FRAC Act-Congress Introduces Twin Bills to Control Drilling and Protect Drinking Water
In a widely expected move [2] that is sure to draw the ire of the oil and gas industry, Democratic members of Congress today introduced twin bills to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act and give the Environmental Protection Agency authority over the controversial drilling process [3] called hydraulic fracturing [4]. The stand-alone bills in […]
Water Pollution Awareness Campaign -Vigorous campaign needed to preserve water-bodies: Kapur
Describing people as major stakeholders in restoring pristine glory of our water-bodies, Chief Secretary. S. S. Kapur has called for a vigorous campaign for their preservation as well as of other natural resources bestowed on the State. He urged people to come forward and lend supportive hand in government’s initiative to conserve its precious gifts […]
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