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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Cleanup time
A campaign by an organisation to clean up the polluted lakes of Udaipur has finally paid off. The Rajasthan High Court clamps down on erring government officials
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Groundwater arsenic contamination in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India
Nine districts in West Bengal, India, and 42 districts in Bangladesh have arsenic levels in groundwater above the World Health Organization maximum permissible limit of 50
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Futureware
Some very promising technologies were on display at the World Water Fair. Two samples </i>
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Toxic water
Bangladeshis may still be drinking arsenic laced water
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PUBLIC OUTCRY
For the past several months, Delhi has been witness to a half hearted government being prodded by a determined Supreme Court to clean the Yamuna. In September 1999, when the court banned the discharge of industrial effluents into the river, several indust
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Clean drinking water
the uk celebrated a decade of steadily improving drinking water and marked it with a weeklong celebration. "In England and Wales, water companies operate under some of the toughest quality
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New schemes in Haryana
the Haryana government has sanctioned Rs 8.88 crore for 21 sewerage and water supply schemes for the villages and towns in the district of Fatehabad. Also in the pipeline are six more schemes
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SOUTH KOREA
Come 2001 and residents of the Naktong River basin in the southeastern parts of the country will start paying a water-use charge. The government has finalised plans to overhaul the water quality of
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Drought? try capturing the rain
This paper presents the potential of rainwater harvesting for drought-proofing India's villages. It urges members of parliament and state legislative assemblies to ensure that the governments take up rainwater harvesting on a large scale to improve local food security. There is enough rainwater in every village of India to meet drinking water needs and critical needs of agriculture. This strategy would complement India's current water management and agricultural strategy which aims at ensuring national food security rather than local food security.
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Defying logic
Koodankulam in Tamil Nadu is already experiencing water scarcity. A proposed atomic power project may further aggravate the problem