Kerala Women Dig 190 Wells To Save Their Villages From Drought.
These mettlesome women from the village of Kerala made it into a male bastion.
They turned well-diggers across drought-hit villages in Kerala.
Battling various challenges, these homemakers have dug over 190 wells across drought-hit village and proved they truly belong to the most literate state of the country by governing their lives on their own.
But the idea of doing work that only men have been doing for years, was interesting in itself.
But when other women proved we could also dig wells, I joined them.
“We never had any experience of digging wells.
Now we have warmed up to it and most of us get into 80-feet deep without any fear,” K Radha reportedly said.
But the master circular discontinued a few activities, and said that the workers cannot go back to work in the same coconut farm every year.
This threw up a challenge before us, that is to generate enough employment to all the workers.

Zimbabwe: Trust Mobilize Communities On Wetlands Protection.
In a bid to increase awareness on the need to preserve wetlands, the Harare Wetland Trust has started a campaign aimed at mobilizing communities to be actively involved in the preservation of wetlands in Harare.
Residents from various suburbs around Harare are set to be part of Local Environment Action Plans (LEAPs) which are local plans that local authorities develop for the management of the environment within areas under their jurisdiction.
The City of Harare has given its support to this initiative.
Section 95 of the Environmental Management Act mandates local authorities to develop the action plans on environmental management.
Speaking during training programmes held in Rugare and Dzivarasekwa high density suburbs on Tuesday, Hardlife Mudzingwa, who is a Programmes Officer for the wetlands preservation project emphasized the need to preserve wetlands as they are important sources of water.
"Residents need to be actively involved in the preservation of wetlands as they are important sources of water.
"The involvement of communities that benefit from the wetlands is thus very critical.
Wetlands are among the major sources of water for Harare.
Ramsar sites in Zimbabwe include the Monavale Vlei, Cleveland Dam, Mana Pools, Lake Chivero, Driefontein Grasslands, Chinhoyi Caves and the Victoria Falls National Park.

The campaign was a success – it generated 1.5 million interactions on social media, over 17 million impressions and several cans of trash.
But how does one get around to building engagement on social media?
Content marketing has emerged as one of the better ways to drive conversation on social media.
This is done by not talking about the brand directly but creating a story around it.
He suggests that instead of talking to all and sundry on social media, brands should segment the audience carefully, and find a way to reach only that audience over a period of time.
The platform in use is also a major deciding factor when driving engagement.
Because another study suggests that a Facebook post with images usually records 2.3 times more engagement than those without images.
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No Place for Hate Germany has passed a law under which social media networks would have to bring down any hate speech posted on their sites within 24 hours or face a fine of upto 50 million euros.

MCC to supply Cauvery water to UOM.
Mysuru, July 12:- Post graduate hostels of University of Mysore (UoM) will get Cauvery water supply from Mysore City Corporation (MCC).
The varsity was depending on borewells for its water needs and had not taken the water connection from the Mysore City Corporation (MCC).
Faced with water scarcity, it had approached the MCC for water connection.
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah too had directed the civic body to extend the facility to the students.
There are 19 hostels run by the UoM including undergraduate hostels, three for men and three for women, rest are for undergraduate students.
Last month, when students belonging to PG Hostel at Manasagangotri campus, complained of water problems, Dayanand Mane, acting Vice Chancellor, himself visited the hostels and promised to solve their long-pending problems.
As a temporary arrangement, VC provided mineral water through cans.
After the issue was brought to the notice of the Chief Minister, he called upon the authorities to provide Cauvery water to all the hostels.
UoM dean Rudraiah said, “Every year during summer most of the hostels face water inconvenience.

‘Jagan spreading canards’.
The TDP Government is relentlessly striving for the development and welfare of women in the State, Minister for Panchayat Raj and IT N. Lokesh has said.
Mr. Lokesh, who is on a two-day tour of Kadapa district, participated in a motorcycle rally on Tuesday along with Rajya Sabha member C.M.
Ramesh and Government Whip M. Mallikarjuna Reddy at Rajampet.
Later, interacting with women at Madhavarampodu in Railway Kodur, he said: “Don’t give credence to the dubious promises of the opposition parties.” Taking a dig at YSR Congress president Y.S.
Jagan Mohan Reddy, the Minister accused him of spreading canards and trying to mislead people.
Addressing a review meeting with officials at the Kadapa Collectorate, Mr. Lokesh said there was scope for obtaining a special package of ₹30,000 crore for mitigating drinking water scarcity in the villages.
He promised provision of basic amenities in all the villages by 2019.
Marketing Minister C. Adinarayana Reddy said 32 types of works were linked to the NREGS.
Agriculture Minister S. Chandramohan Reddy said Mr. Lokesh was committed to rural development.

Open Letter to Rouhani: Water Crisis in Iran Spells Future Conflict.
Print Email INU – An Open letter to Rouhani: Water crisis in Iran spells future conflict An open letter from an organisation dedicated to treating the water crisis in Iran criticising Iranian President Hassan Rouhani for his mishandling of the crisis has been released.
The letter, signed by 110 experts, researchers and scientists in the field of water security, warned Rouhani that Iran is facing an unprecedented water crisis and if left along, this could lead to “escalating conflicts…in the near future”.
The letter read: “In the near future, competing for limited water resources will expand, and conflicts over shares will spread across the country.” The head of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of the Iranian parliament, Alaa El-ddin Boroujerdi has previously confirmed that the “water crisis” has become a security issue and the Parliament established the Water Security Committee to track the consequences.
Boroujerdi said: “The water resources in the country are very limited; Iran is one of the driest places in the world and we have a water crisis that has practically become a security issue.” In a different interview, Boroujerdi said: “The country has very limited water resources, so that we are among the world’s most water-stressed countries… Meanwhile, wastewater is pouring into many rivers across the country, thereby ruining the healthy water.
“ Rahim Maidani, the water official at the Iranian Energy Ministry, said that 295 cities, including six large cities, are facing drought as the water crisis spreads across the country.
This water crisis has led to protests and demonstrations all over Iran, with protesters worried that the Iranian Regime has been directing water towards the Persian provinces in the centre of Iran, which has led to remote villages being abandoned in favour of the bigger cities.
Earlier this month, Iran Focus wrote a report on the crisis in which they commented: “Disruptions to water supply could cause health problems, especially during the current heatwave, mass migration as resident emigrate in order to find reliable water, and widespread protests as people become more and more concerned that their government isn’t doing enough.” The National Council of Resistance of Iran said: “[The] Regime is in crisis in all areas.
The environment, for instance, has turned into a huge crisis due to regime’s destructive policies.
Excessively digging deep wells and using groundwater resources besides regime’s failing to set up water distribution networks have caused citizens to suffer severe water scarcity.” Two years ago, the former agriculture minister Issa Klanter warned of the impending water crisis and said that 50 million Iranians would have to emigrate over the next twenty years in order to survive, creating another wave of refugees.

Here’s the storyline: By 2050, the United Nations predicts that global population will expand to nearly 10 billion people – an increase of more than 2 billion – which will require a significant increase in the food supply.
In addition to many more people to feed, growers will have fewer acres of farmland to grow that food and less water available to irrigate the crops.
Unfortunately, the people who are working to develop the tools and technology that will help protect the world from the “evil forces” are often villainized.
Monsanto scientists have developed a fall-armyworm resistant maize seed that has been genetically modified to contain a naturally occurring soil bacterium called Bacillus thuringienisis , or Bt, within the plant itself.
There is a large friendly force of us that wants to be able to give them those tools.
There are thousands of researchers at Universities and other public institutions, startups and other private companies who understand that “big ag” isn’t the bad guy – because we’re all on the same team.
I think if we can just get the facts in front of kids at an earlier age – explain the challenges the world is facing and how we’re using science and technology in modern agriculture to create solutions – they’ll get it.
There is nothing on earth more important that making sure future generations have enough food, water and natural resources – and right now, even as we look forward to the next superhero movie release, there is a team of non-fiction heroes working on a noble mission to help save the planet.
We are scientists, farmers and scientific communicators.
We are the real Guardians of the Galaxy.

Global Mobile Water Treatment Market – Size, Projections, Drivers, Trends, Vendors, and Analysis Through 2021 by Technavio.
Global mobile water treatment market is projected to grow at a CAGR of nearly 12% over the period 2017-2021.
Tweet this In this report, Technavio covers the market outlook and growth prospects of the global mobile water treatment market for 2017-2021.
Mobile water treatment products and services provide highly purified water for critical industrial applications.
Owing to the development and growth of these industries, demand is more for mobile water treatment systems in times of emergencies.
Technavio’s research study segments the global mobile water treatment market into the following regions: Looking for more information on this market?
The growth in the water reuse rate, increasing mobile water for tourism, and emergency applications are the major reasons for the rising demand for mobile water treatment in the overall region,” says Thanikachalam Chandrasekaran, a lead analyst at Technavio for water and waste management research.
Most industrial users are looking at technological support for processed water demands.
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Climate change to deplete some US water basins, reduce irrigated crop yields.
A new study by MIT climate scientists, economists, and agriculture experts finds that certain hotspots in the country will experience severe reductions in crop yields by 2050, due to climate change’s impact on irrigation.
The most adversely affected region, according to the researchers, will be the Southwest.
Production of cotton, the primary irrigated crop in the Southwest and in southern Arizona in particular, will drop to less than 10 percent of the crop yield under optimal irrigation conditions, the study projects.
“A more integrated world” While many researchers have investigated the effects of climate change on crop yields, Blanc’s study is one of the first to consider how a changing climate may shape the availability and distribution of water basins on which irrigated crops depend.
“Most modeling studies that look at the impact of climate change on crop yield and the fate of agriculture don’t take into account whether the water available for irrigation will change,” Monier says.
They then used a crop model to simulate daily water requirements for various crops, driven by the researchers’ modeled projections of precipitation and temperature, and compared these requirements with the amount of water predicted to be available for irrigation in a particular basin through the year 2050.
“The biggest finding is that it really makes a difference in specific regions, whether you take into account how irrigation availability will change in the future and how that will impact yields,” Monier says.
For example, though climate change will significantly reduce cotton production in the Southwest, the bulk of the country’s cotton production does not occur in this region.
We also want to make clear that climate mitigation is better for U.S. irrigated agriculture than not doing anything.” A climate-changing landscape Under the same business-as-usual scenario, the researchers projected higher yields for irrigated crops such as wheat, soybean, and sorghum.

Food and farming: Two futures.
The first path is industrial, and was paved by the poison cartel, which was born during the war to create chemicals that can kill people.
After the wars they redeployed war chemicals as agrichemicals — pesticides and fertilisers — we were told we can’t have food without poisons.
Bt crops were supposed to control pests but they have created new pests and superpests.
In 2013, Monsanto acquired world’s largest climate data corporation, Climate Corporation, for $1 billion.
Climate Corporation does not bring to farmers the knowledge that the solution to climate change lies below our feet, in the soil.
This is the next step in a dead end future that ignores the intelligence of seeds, plants, soil organisms, our gut bacteria, farmers and our grandmothers.
They are thus sowing the seeds of food democracy — a food system in the hands of farmers and consumers, devoid of corporate control, poisons, food miles and plastics; a food system that nourishes the planet and all humans.
Contrary to the myth that small farmers should be wiped out because they are unproductive and we should leave our food future in the hands of the poison cartel, surveillance drones and spyware, small farmers are providing 70 per cent of global food using 30 per cent of the resources that go into agriculture.
We cannot solve climate change without small scale, ecological agriculture, based on biodiversity, living seeds and living soils and local food systems, with minimal food miles and devoid of plastic packaging.