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Tehsils at loggerheads over water sharing

Edit The Times of India 09 Apr 2016
The Ichalkaranji Municipal Council has officially opposed release of water from a check dam near the town to ensure that more water is supplied to its citizens ... The villagers from Danoli too have opposed the water lifting scheme from its check dam which is meant for supplying water to Ichalkaranji, the textile hub of the state ... The eastern tehsils of the district, Hatkanangle and Shirol, are largely dependent on water from dams....

Chithirai festival: Acute water shortage in Vaigai may dampen devotees' spirit

Edit The Times of India 09 Apr 2016
Every year, the public works department (PWD) releases water from Vaigai dam for agriculture, drinking water and for the ceremony ... This year, however, there is question mark over the release due to shortage of water in Vaigai dam which on Friday had a capacity of 6,091 mcft ... Thus, we have suggested not to release water from the dam ... "Till 15 years ago, there was continuous release of water from Vaigai dam....

Farmers demand de-silting of dams

Edit The Times of India 09 Apr 2016
Farmers from Nashik district met district guardian minister Girish Mahajan, who is also the state water resources department minister top request him for the de-silting of dams in the district ... capacity of dams....

Hurdles in railways plan to supply water to Latur hits roadblock

Edit The Times of India 09 Apr 2016
Nashik ... We have not given the railways any permission to lift water from the Hatnoor dam here ... Railway officials said they were looking at water supply from the dam ... If at all we get water, it will be from pipelines connected to the Hatnoor dam ... ....

Water scarcity in 101 villages, Chandgad tehsil worst hit

Edit The Times of India 09 Apr 2016
The tehsil does also suffers from lack of sufficient dams and water bodies which only added to its woes ... Other works such as improving borewells, financial assistance for digging wells, and removing sediments from wells weirs and check dams to improve storage capacity have also been proposed under the funds," he said ... Even so, the two major dams in ......

TGIF? Fridays off, but Venezuelans not exactly happy

Edit The Times of India 09 Apr 2016
The socialist government blames the electricity shortage on three years of drought, which have choked off the 18 hydroelectric dams the country relies on for power ... But the (hydroelectric) dams are in critical condition ... The dam currently has a water level just three centimeters (about one inch) above the critical limit....

Hunger, power cuts in Zimbabwe, Zambia as lake level hits record low

Edit The Times of India 09 Apr 2016
"We just hope that God hears our pleas for rain and the dam fills up so that we can get back to fishing, otherwise we will just starve.". Lake Kariba has fallen to 12 percent of its capacity, hitting the fishing industry and also vital hydroelectric power production in Zambia and Zimbabwe, according to the dam's operators....

Tanker water used to fill sacred pond Ramkund

Edit Zeenews 09 Apr 2016
It was for the first time in last 139 years that Ramkund had dried up as water stock in Gangapur dam had gone down due to severe drought and scanty rainfall last year ... ....

A grinder to the end, Tom Watson eschews emotion in saying bye to Masters

Edit Baltimore Sun 09 Apr 2016
If you were expecting a waterfall of tears, the dam never broke. If you were thinking Tom Watson would spend his 134th and final round at the Masters exuding emotion and becoming engrossed in deep reflection, you've miscalculated how he's wired. Instead, what the galleries at Augusta National... ....

Solapur aims to cut number of water tankers in operation

Edit Indian Express 09 Apr 2016
(Source. Express Photo by Javed Raja) ... Share This Article. Related Article ... Dams drying up, tankers pressed into service to supply water in districtDrought starts to pinch hard,all hopes rest on monsoon advanceDrought ... 6, slideMargin. 3 }); }); ... Parineeta Dandaker, associate coordinator for the South Asian Network on Dams, Rivers and People, lauded the efforts taken to recharge groundwater as well as not allow digging within 500 metres....

Snakes in the bracken

Edit The Guardian 09 Apr 2016
Big Moor, Derbyshire The glimpse resolved itself into a knot of plump, scaly flesh, two adders wound around each other. @calmandfearless ... That morning’s blue skies had given way to dark, scudding clouds and a keen wind. Twelve hundred feet up, it felt too cold for snakes ... The moor, rich with curlew and lark, is split by Bar Brook, dammed in the past but no longer; it descends to enter a smaller reservoir, sheltered with birch and willow....

Modern Mennonites embrace old-fashioned skills

Edit Canada Dot Com 09 Apr 2016
Scripture guided their forbears to reject electricity and cars, writes Josiah Neufeld, but these modern Mennonites spurn our tech-obsessed culture for other reasons ... “My two underperforming oxen,” he says affectionately as he leans on his pitchfork ... It was slow going ... Rempel himself had done advocacy work with First Nations communities in northern Manitoba whose traditional hunting and trapping lands had been destroyed by hydro dams ... ....

Inside the world's most dangerous dam

Edit CNN 08 Apr 2016
Mosul Dam, Iraq (CNN)Only one of the two bottom outlet gates is functioning, angrily spitting out water in a foamy white churn as birds fly above the spray. This is the Mosul Dam, considered by some experts among the most dangerous of its kind in the world. Completed in the mid-1980s, the dam was considered a necessity at the time ... An employee works at strengthening the Mosul Dam on Iraq's Tigris River....
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