According to IMD, isolated very heavy rainfall is very likely over Punjab, Haryana, West Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh on July 21 and over Uttarakhand from July 21-23.
Surat: The Diamond City Surat also known as the hub of man-made fibre (MMF) in the country could be staring at chronic water shortage and food security issue in the near future owing to increasing population, decreasing water availability along the climatically sensitive Tapi river basin.
This was the conclusion of a study done by researchers of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Institute of Technology (SVNIT), Surat and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai. The researchers who investigated the long-term changes in the flow of Tapi river and its and socio-environmental implications detected abrupt and gradual changes in the river’s flow between 1973 and 2013