Blue and Green Drop Project Report 2024
The 2024 blue drop results show an alarming increase in unsafe municipal drinking water, with 13% of blue drop tests across the country that point to unsafe drinking water. The drinking water of 28 towns
Drinking Water
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UNJUSTIFIED LAW
The European Commission (EC) will file a lawsuit against Germany in the European Court of Justice in a bid to get a German law amended. The German packaging regulation 1998, EC claims, is
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Water from waste
With water scarcity gripping many parts of the country, people are talking about rainwater harvesting, but none about wastewater, which can also be recycled to boost our fast depleting water resources
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Urban rain water harvesting
The Japanese capital Tokyo receives 1,400 mm of rain in a year. But concrete prevents it from percolating into the ground. Urban flooding and acute water scarcity affected the people almost every
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Voices from Making Water Everybody s Business Talking about water
Water is bound to dominate the agenda of the country s politicians and planners in the future Though ignored for years by the political leadership and mismanaged by a myopic bureaucracy, there is still hope.
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Drinking water shortage
Scarcity of water makes the life of women in rural India particularly problematic. They have to walk several kilometres to fetch a bucket of water. Utthan, a voluntary agency in Ahmedabad, Gujarat,
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Three countries in South East Asia
Three countries in Southeast Asia -- Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines-- have made efforts to provide drinking water by capturing rain. In Thailand, the absence of foreign assistance for
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TANZANIA
One third of Mount Kilimanjaro's ice fields have completely melted in the last two decades and the rest of the mountain's ice could disappear by 2015, says Lonnie Thom pson, a professor at the us
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Bottled poison
Most bottled water brands are contaminated in Pakistan
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Talking about fluorosis
Participants failed to come up with workable solutions at a recent international conference on fluorosis
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Dirty and thirsty
Anybody can tell you they are essential for a decent way of life: safe drinking water and sanitation. Since the 1980s governments have made drinking water available to more and more people across the