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IIT-K workshop educates children on quakes

IIT-K workshop educates children on quakes

THE CIVIL Engineering Department of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-K) organised a workshop for the school children at the computer science auditorium to impart them basic education about earthquakes and measures to mitigate the destruction and suffering caused by the earthquakes.

Three eminent professor delivered their lectures on the topics Water, Earthquake— How safe are we and Global Warming.

Speaking about the relevance of water in the global context a professor from JNU Dr V Rajamani said that indiscriminate use of water had led the level of underground water to go deeper. In many areas the underground water had become scarce, he said.

He advised the children that they should learn proper management of water resources. With the depletion of the underground water the rivers would go dry and they would change their course. Besides, the probabilities of earthquakes would also grow.

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