to shortage which ends up in conflicts. There
3. Amid
drought,
California
is also the exploitation of water resources by
exporting
corporates and political nexus.
hay to fuel China’s growing demand
alfalfa
for dairy.
[Source Down to EarthJanuary 2016]
Equipment invented to measure water
water-intensive
is
4. Four iconic places in Los Angeles
viz. Dodgr Stadium, Forest Lawn,
the Getty and Exposition Park seek
Students of MCKV Eng. College Lillooah,
innovative ways to consecutive
invented an equipment named “Smart
Irrigation System” to save water from excess
irrigation. It is to be placed on a farm land,
water drying drought.
5. Sao Paulo’s (Brazil) 20 million
people are suffering from a historic
which is being watered by shallow water
pump, to measure required water for
irrigation. As soon as it reaches the target,
water crisis.
6. Iraq’s
marshes
are
disappearing – A decade after the
the equipment will automatically stop, and
restoration of their once-fruitful
alert farmer so that he also could stop this
wetland, the Marsh Arabs are
pump to avoid wastage of water. Students
struggling
claim that the equipment has been successful
to
cope
with
the
country’s water shortage.
in operation in their laboratory. Now the
Authorities are to accept it for further
famed
7. Birds dying as Drought ravage avian
highways-
confirmation.
Migrating
birds
are
weakened or sickened as they wing
[Source ABP, 22.05.16]
their way along the warm pacific
flyway in search of fresh water.
Some International Water News
8.
1. Lack of snow due to rising temp.
and declining snowpack results
drought across the western U.S.
2. Drought and the resulting shortage
of melting snow are driving the
Drought
has
been
deadly
for
indigenous people in Columbia’s
desert
peninsula,
undergoing a global crisis. People
are forced for their homes as
weather turns into extreme.
historic water shortage across much
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