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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Water warriors
Traditional water harvesters recount their success stories
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Cleaning the lifeline
The toll of diseases across the world could be reduced to a great extent by using safe water, hygienic latrines and by washing hands before handling food. Staying healthy is, therefore, easier for
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A few questions
Why are there pesticide residues in bottled water? This isn"t an isolated query. It condenses 3-4 lines of questioning: • What kind of water do companies use as raw material?
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Picking up the tab for industrial growth
NO OTHER region of India has paid a heavier price for India's industrialisation than the Damodar valley, which traverses the poor states of Bihar and West Bengal. Rich in coal resources, the region
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Conspicuously missing
ANYBODY reading the national media would have thought that environmental issues had precious little to do with the current round of elections in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Himachal
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For a few dollars more...
Developing countries immunised 80 per cent of their children by 1990 and saved millions of lives. But 35,000 children, under five years of age, still die every day all over the world, because of malnutrition.
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Jawan Lal Rebari
Barawa village, Rajsamand district, Rajasthan
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What does India want?
India has been quite vocal about its interests at several international environmental conference
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Manukhbhai Suvagia
Shapar, Rajkot, Gujarat
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New injectable male contraceptive
A styrene maleic anhydride 'plug' has few side effects and is reversible.