CLIMATE CARE - NORTHEAST INDIA

MONOJ GOGOI FEWS Parts A Flood Early Warning System contains following parts; Transmitter end: Transmitter Box : it contains a circuit with small chips. These chips use for decoding signals. Sensors : Sensors are use for detecting the level of water. As water enters the sensor lead, former pushes the later which leads to generate signals on transmitter box. Sensor pipe: It is long plastic pipe fixed with sensors. It has holes which help during cleaning the interior part of sensor pipe. Antenna : a small antenna needs to fix with the transmitter end to send the signal to receiver part. Battery: a small battery of 6Volt needs to fix with transmitter box. It supply power to the whole transmitter end. Solar panel: a small solar panel needs to fix with transmitter box which supply power to charge the battery. Bamboo pole : one bamboo pole is use to fix whole system along with sensor pipe, transmitter box, solar panel and antenna. Recei...

Dr David Molden, the Director General (DG) of Kathmandu based International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and also a world renowned water expert and an environmentalist talked to Monoj Gogoi 1. Dr Molden, you have visited Dihiri in Dhemaji district and Borsala in Lakhimpur district. Both of these two villages are worst flood affected villages of the region. You also interacted interacted with the communities of these two villages. What was the purpose of this visit? Will you share your experiences? Ya, the purpose of the visit is to understand what's happening in the sites. We have two different kinds of projects- one is the Community-Based Flood Early Warning System (CB-FEWS), the second one looks at how best to use remittances from the migrants to build up the livelihoods of the people. So these are important programmes, important ideas from ICIMOD and partners and so that's the purpose of coming here. The second, to try and see how we can...