Mysore/Mysuru: With the onset of summer, good Samaritans in the city have started feeding water to animals and birds by hanging coconut shells from the trees. Corporator B.V. Manjunath launched the initiative taken up jointly by Rotaract Mysore and Ambari Organisation, by hanging coconut shells from the trees at Ward No. 51 on Thursday. Keeping…
College students help birds quench their thirst
March 14, 2023Use old helmets to place water, food for winged creatures Mysore/Mysuru: With the city experiencing a rise in mercury levels and the atmospheric temperature, the NSS students of Seshadripuram College in Hebbal have taken up an initiative to help birds survive the heat by keeping water inside the old helmets at open spaces. The soaring…
Share the Water
March 14, 2023By Ragoo Rao, Ethologist Summer is fast arriving. Days are getting warmer; lakes and ponds are going low on storage and water scarcity is fast approaching. We, humans, have made good arrangements for our supply of water even through scarcity spells. What about the creatures around us, like birds, mammals, and reptiles? They also need…
Minister suggests ‘Water Bell’ in schools to uphold importance of hydration
November 13, 2019Bengaluru: Minister for Primary and Secondary Education Suresh Kumar, known to be always keen to effect a positive change to improve any system, has now come forward to introduce ‘Water Bell’ in all schools in the State as being followed at schools in Kerala. He has asked the Commissioner of Department of Public Instruction to…
Beware, want of water wisdom
April 25, 2017Denizens of the forest are figuring in media reports along with womenfolk in rural parts across the land for all bad but virtually the same reason. Graphics and videos during telecast by news channels are portraying the thirsty jumbos and the hard-working women desperately in search of water, mainly for drinking by both parties and…
Avoid stagnation of water during rainy season
April 18, 2017With the district receiving pre-monsoon rains, the District Vector-borne Diseases Control Officer Dr. S. Chidambar, in a press release, has requested people to avoid stagnation of water around the house, prevent accumulation of trash near house and keep surroundings clean to avoid breeding of mosquitoes responsible for spreading of diseases like Dengue and Chikungunya.
Water: Whose business is it anyway?
April 12, 2017By Dr. R. Balasubramaniam Last week on my early morning walk, I could not resist the temptation of walking up to a middle-aged woman washing the entrance to her house. She seemed to be oblivious to any concerns of water scarcity and was pouring large quantities of precious fresh water onto the concrete walkway leading…
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