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
-
A fluid paradox
International aid agencies and local people do not agree on what tastes like real water
-
Sign language
FILMS and videos have been used by environmentalists as promotional material for spreading their message. In addition to this, flash cards and posters have always formed an integeral part of the
-
The taste of arsenic
EVEN as diseases caused by arsenic-tainted water continue to ravage several districts of West Bengal, the state government has initiated a Rs 15-crore action plan to supply safe drinking water to the
-
Pioneering project
Drinking water in Delhi may soon be safer and more potable. For the first time in India, the Delhi Water Supply and Sewage Disposal Undertaking (DWSSDU) expects to introduce, in May, the ozonisation
-
Pumping iron
The training of women in the maintenance of hand pumps has not only flooded them with confidence, it has rescued a government water supply programme from sinking.
-
New light on water disinfection
With a simple modification, ordinary tubelights can be used to provide clean drinking water.
-
Contaminated water
Municipal authorities in Thrissur, Kerala, have been accused of dilly-dallying though a deadly chemical has reportedly flowed into the town's drinking water reservoir, resulting in at least 30
-
'Environment ministers have a hard time'
Union environment minister Kamal Nath talks to Down To Earth about India's environment strategy and the attitude of Western nations towards environmental problems.
-
Municipality blamed for Delhi water poisoning
Municipal authorities in Delhi deny they were responsible for the deaths of eight people caused by contaminated water
-
The world in his pocket
Kamal Nath is one of the few Indian ministers to have acquired an international image. He has traversed the globe to attend various environmental conferences and has also played host to several of his foreign counterparts. Nath argues the new found green