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National seminar on water management at Poovathoor

PATHANAMTHITTA: Pampa Parirakshana Samiti, a Kozhencherry-based environment group, will organise a two-day national seminar on ‘integrated water resources management in Pampa river basin' at the Environmental Resource Centre at Poovathoor near Aranmula on Saturday and Sunday.

Anto Antony, MP, will inaugurate the seminar at 10 a.m. and K. Sivadasan Nair, MLA, will preside over the function.

Fr. Thomas Peeliyanickal, Kuttanad Vikasana Samiti chairman; Varghese C. Thomas, journalist; Jose Parakkadavil, former principal of BAM College at Thuruthicaud; and N.K. Sukumaran Nair, PPS general secretary, will address the meeting.

K.M. Nair, former director of Centre for Earth Science Studies; D. Padmalal, scientist; George Aby of CWRDM; and Abraham Varghese of Kerala Water Authority will deliver lectures on ‘sand-mining and its impacts on riverine system' in the forenoon.

World Environment Day will also be celebrated at the centre on Sunday.

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