Feature Article

This article examines the making of a modern colonial city through the rhetoric of ‘improvement’ and ‘progress’ in relation to water. The reference is to the history of water in the city of Delhi and what may be called ‘the first science of environment’ in a colonial urban context, with a focus not so much on the ‘extent’ of water supply and drainage, and its (in)adequacy in the colonial city, as on concerns around the ‘(im)purity’ of water, narratives of pollution, technologies of purity and the transformations they effected in a colonial context.

Eleventh Plan aiming to add about 78 GW of new capacity by 2012, the power sector is now the focus of a lot of action. Higher capacity unit sizes of 660 MW and 800 MW are the talk of the Indian Power Sector. This dissertation makes an effort to understand the technical and execution aspects of installing these high capacity units.

The Ratle Hydro Electric Project located on River Chenab in J&K state of India is planned to be developed as Run of the river scheme. It is located down stream of Dulhasti Project and Upstream of Baghlihar Project near the village Drabshala in Kishtwar District.

The author describes how the investment in modernization, focused on automation of large unlined, gravity fed irrigation systems has resulted in increases in efficiency of the system from about 70% to 90% in Victoria, Australia.

This paper provides an overview of the author's 20 year experience in the successful implementation in development, adaptation and application of automation technology to existing open channel irrigation system in Australia and a few other countries.

Clean and safe drinking water is a basic human need and providing it for everybody would be the greatest achievement by 2025. Out of 6 billion people on earth not more than one six lacks access to potable water. Also of the total water resources only 1% of fresh water is available for human consumption. To solve this problem, the means and ways have to be explored to reduce, reuse and recycling of water we have. Recycling of water using Solar Still is one of the popular and economic methods.

Pachmarhi biosphere reserve is one of the richest biodiversity regions of Madhya Pradesh. Various weeds are abundant in the croplands as well as in the forests of this region.

The present study evaluated different collections of Hypericum perforatum L. growing in Himachal Pradesh for biomass yield and hypericin content.

Commercially important bamboo, Bambusa bambos (L.) Voss is the abundantly occurring in the forests of Kerala state in India. The average growing stock of B. bambos per ha in different stand density classes in the forests of Kerala was estimated through a statistically designed field survey in natural forests.