Climate Change and Water - Articles. The July 2010 flooding of the Indus River Basin was one of the most devastating natural disasters in recorded history.
Researchers are working with communities to help reduce their vulnerability to future extreme weather events. Research focusTo understand the underlying causes of Pakistan’s 2010 flooding and its impact on marginalized communities in the Indus Basin, and to identify strategies to reduce their vulnerability. The challenge In July 2010, unusually heavy monsoon rains in Pakistan's Indus River Basin swelled waterways, swamping adjacent communities.
Twenty million people were affected as homes, livelihoods, and infrastructure were wiped out, access to food and clean water were cut off, and transportation, energy, and communication systems were disrupted. Ricultural country was submerged by the flood waters for weeks, and the World Bank estimated recovery costs at US$10 billion. Flood relief efforts were undermined by ongoing political instability and poor governance. Integrated hydrological data book (non-classified river basins) by Central Water Commission, Ministry of Water Resources. This book is a compendium of hydrogeological data related to major river basins in India This data book published by Central Water Commission (CWC) is a compendium of important hydrological information on major basins in India.
It provides updated site wise data for 12 non-classified basins that covers aspects such as location, drainage area, population, temperature, average runoff, seasonal water flow, historical water levels, average sediment load, water quality parameters and land use statistics. The statistics of year 2006-07 to 2009-10 are used as the base for the data mentioned in the book. The book is divided into six chapters followed by an exhaustive appendix consisting table on hydrology and land use statistics in river basins. The introduction of the book briefly discusses about the need for a “comprehensive and reliable” data on hydrological aspects for the purpose of designing and executing any water resource project.
Chapter 5 is on water quality statistics. Solve water problems or forget growth, India told. Facing water shortages, Indian farmers dig in. Kai Ryssdal: There are, plus or minus, 7 billion people now living on this planet.
By the middle of the century, the United Nations tells us it's gonna to be 9 billion. Among the many, many questions that raises is how we're gonna feed them all. The answer is complicated -- a mix of politics, culture, science, and traditions all affecting the global food supply. Here's part of the science. The average person drinks a couple of quarts of water every day, but it takes more than a thousand times that to produce a day's worth of food. Today on our series "Food for 9 Billion," Jon Miller went to India to meet a man who's trying to do something about it. Jon Miller: Rajendra Singh lives in a patch of forest hours from anywhere in the dry hills of eastern Rajasthan.
Rajendra Singh: When I came here I don't know about the water management, I don't know the water engineering. This was the 1980s, and Singh had recently finished a degree in traditional Indian medicine. Not that it never rained.