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CSE’s Weekly News Bulletin

August 31, 2021

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BULLETIN HIGHLIGHTS
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  • Editorial by Sunita Narain
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  • Stories from Down To Earth
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Message from Sunita Narain
The Clean Air Concern
Sunita Narain
Editor, Down To Earth
Twiiter @sunitanar Twitter: @sunitanar
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Water for fruits:
Why Abohar and Ganganagar's citrus revolution needs encouragement
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The pear tree I am looking at is nearly bent to the ground under the weight of fruits — 50-100 kilograms grows on each tree in this 50-year-old orchard. Then my gaze shifts to guava, plum, peach and miles of kinnow and other citruses. And, of course, there was date palm.

No, I did not visit Israel last fortnight. I was in Abohar in Fazilka district of Punjab, at the border of Pakistan and then crossed over to Sri Ganganagar district in Rajasthan. This is the region of the Rajasthan Canal, also known as the Indira Gandhi Nahar.

It was incredible to see how water can transform land; and also to learn of the initiative, the scientific knowledge and the risk that the pioneers took to make the desert green. The Indira Gandhi Nahar extends almost 400 km, bringing water of the Sutlej and Beas rivers up to Bikaner and Jaisalmer.

But as the journey of water lengthens, the demand goes up. Along with prosperity, the canal brings conflict and competition over the increasingly scarce water. But instead of working to build a water-prudent economy, water-guzzling paddy is now being grown where the canal reaches... Continue Reading
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Announcements
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Training
A YE MasterClass
The Story of Honey, September 11, 2021
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Online Training
Understanding Environmental Laws for Better Environmental Management, Sept 1-10, 2021
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Online Training and Workshop
Renewable Energy: Pathways and Technologies, September 1 - 15, 2021
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Residential Training
Liveability in cities: Greening the Construction Sector, September 6-9, 2021
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Basic Laboratory Training
Faecal Sludge Management, September 13-17, 2021
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Advance Training Programme
Continuous Emission and Effluent Monitoring System, September 27-29, 2021
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From Down to Earth
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World freed from toxic leaded petrol: A global win
While global eradication of toxic lead in petrol needs to be celebrated, this also reminds us how tough it is to undo wrong if the evidence of harm is ignored
Dealing with the discarded: E-Waste management in India
India is the third-largest producer of e-waste after China and the United States. More than 95% of this waste is handled by informal sector
Switch it off!: How light pollution disorients ecosystems
Living beings depend on daily cycle of light and dark that governs behaviours such as reproduction, sleep and migration
What’s on our plate: The goodness of consuming native Indian vegetables
Bitter gourd, rich in vitamins A and C, iron, phosphorous and carbohydrates, needs to be re-introduced on our dinner plates
WATCH: Lightning strikes kill more people than other natural calamities, climate change is making it worse
1,697 people killed in India after being struck by lightning between March 2020 and April 2021.
Conserving Chitkul: Why the ‘last village of India’ cannot be allowed to drown in plastic
The pristine hamlet has heaps of plastic waste lurking in its inconspicuous corners
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