It is one week since Uttarakhand’s worst disaster in living memory. Flash floods resulting from extremely intense rainfall swept away mountainsides‚ villages and towns‚ thousands of people‚ animals‚ agricultural fields‚ irrigation canals‚ domestic water sources‚ dams‚ roads‚ bridges‚ and buildings — anything that stood in the way. A week later‚ media attention remains riveted on the efforts to rescue tens of thousands of pilgrims and tourists visiting the shrines in the uppermost reaches of Uttarakhand’s
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the river Brahmaputra. It is surrounded by hills and has a tropical climate. The weather is often hot and humid in summer‚ cold and frosty in winter‚ but in the rainy season and also to some extent‚ in summer‚ it is often bombarded by heavy rainfall. Rainfall is frequent in the summer season and very frequent in the monsoon. The city experiences an annual downpour of almost 400cm. But apart from quenching the thirst if the residents of the city‚ it often arises some problems for them. One of the
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1.if selecting samples of size n = 10 from a population with a known mean and standard deviation what requirement‚ if any must be satisfied in order to assume that the distribution of the sample means is a normal distribution The population must have a normal distribution. 2. find the area of the shaded region. The graph depicts that standard normal distribution with mean 0 and standard deviation 1. M: 0 δ: 1 Z: 1.13= .8708 2ND DIST. #2 LOWER: -999999 UPPER: 1.13 U: 0 δ: 1 =.8707618393 3. Shaded
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inconceivable without the existence of trees in the world. Trees absorb carbon dioxide and give us oxygen without which no living being can live. Trees give us shade‚ medicine‚ food‚ fruits‚ furniture‚ fuel etc. Trees also keep the weather cool and cause rainfall. They also bind soil and thus prevent erosion. The land of Bangladesh is suitable for the plantation of different kinds of trees. Trees can be planted in the vast areas of sea beaches. Both sides of the roads and railways offer great scope for planting
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Rainwater Harvesting: Grab hold of Water Where it Falls! Mrs. S.D. Khandagale ‚ Mrs. V.A. Joshi # # * Lecurer‚ Instrumentation Department V.P.M’s Polytechni‚ Thane‚ MS‚ India smita_khandagale@hotmail.com * H.O.D‚ Instrumentation Department V.P.M’s Polytechnic‚ Thane‚ MS‚ India Abstract Till about thirty years back‚ the areas around our homes and offices used to be unpaved and the rain falling on these areas would percolate into the soil and remain there for being drawn through
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special water-harvesting structures like dug wells‚ percolation‚ lagoon‚ check dams etc. Rain water harvesting is not only proving useful for poor and scantly rainfall regions but also for the rich ones. The annual average rainfall in India is 1‚200 mm. It is astonishing fact that Cherrapunji (Assam)‚ the place receiving the second highest rainfall is 11‚000 mm still suffers from water scarcity. Rain water harvesting has the following objectives: (i) To reduce run-off loss. (ii) To avoid flooding
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rather live in Egypt. Both civilizations rely on a river or rivers. Mesopotamia is between the Tigris and Euphrates. Egypt was built along the northern delta of the Nile River. In Mesopotamia‚ though the rivers could drought or flood depending on snowfall and rain‚ well in Egypt the Nile flooding came at the same time each year and was even predicted when it was coming from the birds that flew by. Egyptians also used their surroundings to help protect and guard them where the Mesopotamia’s had no
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Life (1841)‚ he gave up law to devote himself to literature. B. Author’s Major Works and Awards * The Biglow Papers * A Vision of Sir Launfel C. Title and Genre of the Selection 1. Stanzas on Freedom – Poem 2. The First Snowfall – Poem D. Brief Plot Summary 1. The poem is about slavery and the way people should feel about it in Lowell’s opinion. 2. The poem is about the description of snow and the gradual shifts to the healing process of the death of his daughter
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natural world is extremely varied‚ so an easier way biologists and people can better understand the Earth’s environment and its ecosystems is to categorize it into groups called biomes. Biomes are arranged by specific environmental conditions (i.e. rainfall‚ temperature‚ and humidity) and house specific types of vegetation or factors that allow organisms adapt to these environments. Cataloguing organisms that share similar adaptations makes it easier to study all the environments found on Earth (Lomolino
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divisions‚ 85wards and 346 villages. CLIMATE The region receives rainfall of between 500 mm and 800 mm per annum. Rain season commences in November to April. The dry season covers all months from May to October. The region forms part of the semi- arid central zone of Tanzania which experiences low rainfall and short rainy seasons which are often erratic with fairly wide spread drought in one year out of four. Total rainfall ranges from 500mm to 800mm per annum with high geographical‚ seasonal
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