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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The French connection
The French manner of dealing with an apathetic government needs to be replicated in the Indian context
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Draining Delhi
The capital s drains are the biggest contributors to the pollution
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Yamuna s DDT overload
A study carried out by H C Agarwal, P K Mittal, K B Menon and M K K Pillai of the department of zoology, University of Delhi, published in August 1985, traced DDT residues in water, bottom sediments
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Delhi, The biggest culprit
“Round-the-clock monitoring by a network of zonal laboratories and a central laboratory ensures water quality. In Delhi, where people are very vocal, we cannot afford to be lax even for a moment,”
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Indian rivers are getting polluted
The answer to the whole issue of murky rivers lies in preventing their pollution, rather than polluting them first and then treating the raw river water for drinking purposes
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Cost: Three rupees...
..per villager per year. And the benefit of an ultraviolet disinfectant is potable water for a community of 1,000 people for 15 years
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In Focus
Parched and thirsty. A more gloo mier scenario could not have been predicted for Asian countries in the coming years by the World Bank (WB). And this is in spite of the periodic floods that visit
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Checking the damage
MANTHAN se Pravah (strength from struggle) is a film on a number of largely women-based initiatives for revitalising drinking water resources in different parts of Gujarat. Remarkable in concept, the
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Clean and pure
water in the us will now flow with a guarantee. President Bill Clinton recently signed a bill designed to upgrade municipal water systems in view of the deteriorating water standards. The new law
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IN MURKY WATERS
Irked by Britain's failure to enforce Euro pean Union (EU) standards on the quality of drinking water even after six years of efforts to reach an agreement, the European Commis sion (EC) has decided