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Nepal, India put rampaging flood river back on original course
Kathmandu (AFP) Jan 27, 2009 A Himalayan river which broke flood defences last year and displaced millions of people in Nepal and India has been put back on its original course, officials in Nepal said Tuesday. Indian and Nepali technicians plus hundreds of labourers managed to shift the Saptakoshi river late on Monday, said the head of Nepal's Natural Disaster Relief Department, Pratap Kumar Pathak. "We do not know the bearing capacity of the dams though. So we are not sure if it will be able to handle the monsoon floods this year," Pathak cautioned. The floods last August left hundreds of villages under water and millions of people destitute in southern Nepal and the impoverished northern Indian state of Bihar. Related Links Water News - Science, Technology and Politics
Energy-Efficient Water Purification
New Haven CT (SPX) Jan 22, 2009Water and energy are two resources on which modern society depends. As demands for these increase, researchers look to alternative technologies that promise both sustainability and reduced environmental impact. Engineered osmosis holds a key to addressing both the global need for affordable clean water and inexpensive sustainable energy according to Yale researchers. |
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