
Streamlining of water usage pattern stressed
The Hindu
Streamlining of water usage patterns is the need of the hour, according to Shekhar C.Mande, Secretary, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and Director General, Council of Scientific Rese
Streamlining of water usage patterns is the need of the hour, according to Shekhar C.Mande, Secretary, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and Director General, Council of Scientific Research.
Delivering the Dr. V. Subrahmanyan Memorial Endowment Lecture organised by the National Institute of Food Technology, Entrepreneurship and Management, Thanjavur, in virtual mode on the topic ‘Food, Nutrition and Agricultural Challenges for the 21stCentury’ on January 31, he cautioned that water crisis might crop up in future as available data indicated that 54% of the total area of the country fell under high to a very high category of places where availability of water was scarce.

The Ottiyambakkam panchayat had an harrowingly difficult time keeping people from swimming in the deadly quarry with its protruding rocks under the water. There had been many deaths. And then nature intervened, and the fatal accidents stopped. An invasive, floating weed that is a bane of water sources everywhere, the water hyacinth is not just tolerated in the quarry but welcomed












