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Water Pollution

  • The Team

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  • Future power

    Future power

    the uk government is promoting solar energy in a big way. It has offered energy companies three million pounds to help develop solar power systems for public buildings like schools, churches

  • Malarial backlash

    Ecological changes wreck havoc in Orissa

    • 14/11/2001

  • Hollow men and ailing systems

    Hollow men and ailing systems

    Forget vision, the Indian scientific establishment lacks even basic infrastructure to tackle known diseases. Surveillance to unravel the mysterious ones seems a far cry

    • 14/11/2001

  • EL SALVADOR

    Following a severe drought, at least 50,000 people in El Salvador may die of starvation in the next six months, report officials of the World Food Programme (wfp). "Some 10,000 families in El

  • ARGENTINA

    Health officials of Buenos Aires have filed a lawsuit against McDonalds Corporation as Escherichia coli (E coli) bacteria was detected in hamburgers from four outlets. The officials have urged

  • CHILE

    The growing fear of biological warfare has brought a small manufacturer in Chile a good business opportunity. Masprot, a Santiago-based firm manufacturing gas masks, has received orders from

  • Sumptuous greening

    to increase the forest cover of the country from 19 per cent to 33 per cent by 2012, the Indian government has decided to combine the Greening India programme with the food-for-work scheme.

  • Environmental impact of coal mining on water regime and its management

    Coal mining is one of the core industries that contribute to the economic development of a country but deteriorate the environment. Being the primary source of energy coal has become essential to meet the energy demand of a country. It is excavated by both opencast and underground mining methods and affects the environment, especially water resources, by discharging huge amounts of mine water.

  • Productivity peril

    Crop yields will decrease substantially posing danger to food security

    • 30/10/2001

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