{"id":79944,"date":"2019-09-27T00:15:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T18:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=79944"},"modified":"2019-09-27T00:15:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T18:45:16","slug":"lawmakers-propose-starting-mountain-solutions-prog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/09\/27\/lawmakers-propose-starting-mountain-solutions-prog\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers propose starting &#8216;mountain solutions prog&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>BENGALURU, Sep 26:<\/strong> MPs and MLAs from different hill states of the Indian Himalayan region have proposed starting a &#8216;mountain solutions programme&#8217;, including a &#8216;water solutions lab&#8217;, for the Himalayan region.<br \/>\nThe proposal was raised during the &#8216;parliamentarians&#8217; and legislators&#8217; dialogue on water policy for the Indian Himalayan region&#8217; held here in Karnataka on Wednesday as part of the ongoing &#8216;Water future conference: Towards a sustainable water future&#8217;.<br \/>\nThe lawmakers of the Himalayan region emphasized the need for a comprehensive water policy for the states of the Himalayan region, and explored areas of strengthening research, action and policy directions.<br \/>\nThey discussed several critical areas of concern with regard to water sources, water quality, management, increasing water scarcity, and the rapid decline in the freshwater biodiversity of the Himalayan region.<br \/>\nMeghalaya MP Agatha Sangma highlighted the rising conflicts caused by water scarcity in many rain-fed areas, and called for reducing the ecological footprints. &#8220;Polluting companies should take responsibility for the mess they have created,&#8221; she said.<br \/>\nFormer Sikkim MP, PD Rai, who chaired the conference, emphasized the need for creating &#8220;more interactive platforms between the scientific community, policymakers and communities to arrive at better solutions in building towards a water secure future.&#8221;<br \/>\nArunachal PHED Minister Wangki Lowang and MLA Zingnu Namchoom attended the conference, organized by the Integrated Mountain Initiative with support from the Divecha Centre for Climate Change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU, Sep 26: MPs and MLAs from different hill states of the Indian Himalayan region have proposed starting a &#8216;mountain solutions programme&#8217;, including a &#8216;water solutions lab&#8217;, for the Himalayan region. The proposal was raised during the &#8216;parliamentarians&#8217; and legislators&#8217; dialogue on water policy for the Indian Himalayan region&#8217; held here in Karnataka on Wednesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-79944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}