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Coliform

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group of bacteria, found in human intestines,
whose presence in water indicates contamination by disease-causing
microorganisms.

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Amrita Devi Bishnoi
National Award for Wildlife Conservation

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It is given in the memory of Amrita Devi
Bishnoi, who in 1731 sacrificed her life along with 363 others for the
protection of ‘khejri’ trees in Khejrali village near Jodhpur in Rajasthan

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Sal forests

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Forest in the southwestern districts of the West Bengal
state

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Chipko Andolan

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(‘Hug the Trees Movement’) was the result of a grassroot level effort to
end the alienation of people from their forests.The movement originated
from an incident in a remote village called Reni in Garhwal, high-up in
the Himalayas during the early 1970s.

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Kulhs

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Kulhs in Himachal Pradesh
Parts of Himachal Pradesh had evolved a local system of canal irrigation called kulhs
over four hundred years ago. The water flowing in the streams was diverted into
man-made channels which took this water to numerous villages down the hillside.

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Indira Gandhi Canal

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Canal in Rajasthan.

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Water Harvesting in India..Various states

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Water harvesting is an age-old concept in India. Khadins, tanks
and nadis in Rajasthan, bandharas and tals in Maharashtra, bundhis
in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, ahars and pynes in Bihar,
kulhs in Himachal Pradesh, ponds in the Kandi belt of Jammu region,
and eris (tanks) in Tamil Nadu, surangams in Kerala, and kattas in
Karnataka are some of the ancient water harvesting, including water
conveyance, structures still in use today (see Fig. 16.3 for an
example).