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<div><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#1A1A1A">The New Indian
Express</font><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="-3" color="#1A1A1A">
Published: 14th December 2015 05:45 AM Last Updated: 14th
December 2015 05:54 AM</font><font face="Arial" size="-1"
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</font><font face="Georgia" size="+2" color="#000000">Man-animal
Conflicts on Rise in Telengana's Drought-hit Villages</font></div>
<div><font face="Trebuchet MS">By P Krishna | ENS</font><font
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</font><font face="Arial">SANGAREDDY: With the Manjeera River fast
drying up, two major problems now stare in the face of villagers
living along its banks. While the dried up river has intensified the
affect of drought, it has also left the villagers face to face with
crocodiles and leopards.<br>
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Officials believe that there are around 700 crocodiles in the 95 km
stretch irrigated under Manjeera and about 20 leopards in the forest
area along the river. Now, with the only source of water for these
wild animals gone, they are foraying into the nearby villages in
search of food and water.</font><br>
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<div><font face="Arial">Speaking on the issue, the forest officials
said, "These animals are in search of food and water and
therefore they stray into the villages. The recent leopard attack
incident in Tukkapur village of Kulcharam mandal is one such example."
They added that a severe water shortage in the forest is forcing the
leopards to enter the villages.<font size="-1" color="#1A1A1A"><br>
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"There will be photosynthesis, ... "<br>
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George Woodwell. The Energy Cycle of the Biosphere.<br>
<i>Scientific American </i> September 1970<br>
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"Irrigation begins to significantly reduce temperatures and
temperature trends during boreal summer over the Northern Hemisphere
mid-latitudes and tropics beginning around 1950; significant increases
in precipitation occur in these same latitude bands. These trends
reveal the varying importance of irrigation_climate interactions and
suggest that future climate studies should account for irrigation,
especially in regions with unsustainable irrigation resources."<br>
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Puma, M. J., and B. I. Cook (2010), Effects of irrigation on global
climate during the 20th century,<i> J. Geophys. Res</i>., 115, D16120,
doi:10.1029/2010JD014122.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Times" color="#1A1818">"New assessments of decades'
worth of snowpack measurements show that snowpack levels have dropped
considerably throughout the American West in response to a 0.8°C
warming since the 1950s."</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" color="#1A1818"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Times" color="#1A1818">"'Snow is our water
storage in the West,' says Philip Mote, a climatologist at the
University of Washington (UW), Seattle, who leads a team that has
produced much of the new work. 'When you remove that much storage,
there is simply no way to make up for it.'<br>
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"The impacts could be profound."<br>
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Robert F. Service. As the West Goes Dry.<br>
<i>Science</i> February 20, 2004</font><br>
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