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Water storage. Water storage is a broad term referring to storage of both potable water for consumption, and non potable water for use in agriculture. In both developing countries and some developed countries found in tropical climates, there is a need to store potable drinking water during the dry season. In agriculture water storage, water is ...
[7] [57] However India can use the western river waters for irrigation up to 701,000 acres with new water storage capacity not exceeding 1.54 billion m 3 and new storage works with hydropower plants (excluding permitted water storage under unlimited run of the river hydro projects) with storage not exceeding 2.0 billion m 3 and nominal flood ...
Water conservation aims to sustainably manage the natural resource of fresh water, protect the hydrosphere, and meet current and future human demand. Water conservation makes it possible to avoid water scarcity. It covers all the policies, strategies and activities to reach these aims. Population, household size and growth and affluence all ...
Thursday’s data, coupled with a cooling but resilient labor market, is an encouraging sign that the Fed will be able to fulfill its dual mandate and begin easing sky-high rates in September. The ...
The economy grew at a 1.4% rate in the first quarter. U.S. central bank officials regard a 1.8% pace as the non-inflationary growth rate. Still, growth was slower than the 4.2% pace logged in the ...
India accounts for 18% of the world's population and about 4% of the world's water resources. One of the proposed solutions to solve the country's water woes is the Indian rivers interlinking project. [ 2] Some 80 percent of its area experiences rains of 750 millimetres (30 in) or more a year. However, this rain is not uniform in time or geography.
The recession bells aren’t ringing for Crofoot, Tedeschi and other economists because the economy is still growing (a robust 2.8%, in fact, during the second quarter); consumers are still ...
Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. August 2024 Kursk Oblast incursion. Rockets launched by the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroy a Russian bridge over the Seym river in the Kursk Oblast, killing multiple volunteers who were evacuating Russian civilians. Russia's foreign ministry asserts that the missiles were launched by ...