WHO global report on sodium intake reduction
<p>The world is off track to meet its target of reducing salt intake by almost a third by 2025, costing thousands of lives, according to this new report by the World Health Organisation (WHO).</p>
Salt
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Anyone out there? Saturn moon may harbour life-giving ocean
Salt Particles In Enceladus Geysers Point To Presence Of Water Paris: Huge geysers on Saturn
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Geo-chemical behavior of uranium in the Sambhar Salt Lake, Rajasthan: Implications to "source" of salt and uranium "sink"
<p>Among several salt lakes in the Thar Desert of western India, the Sambhar is the largest lake producing about 2 9 105 tons of salt (NaCl) annually.</p>
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Use of unhealthy salts: health department, Jamia Ashrafia told to submit replies by June 27
The Lahore High Court directed the Federal and Punjab health department and Jamia Ashrafia to submit their replies by June 27 in a petition challenging the use of unhealthy salts in making of chips commonly sold in the market. The petitioner Qari Sanaullah has questioned the fatwa given by Jamia Ashrafia declaring the use of the said salt by chips manufacturing company.
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Two mine workers die
Two mine workers were killed while another received serious injuries when a boulder of salt fell on them at Golewali salt mines on Sunday. According to police, Imran, Riaz and Muhammad Sadiq were busy in their routine work in salt mine when all of sudden a boulder of salt fell upon them. As a result Imran and Riaz died on the spot while Sadiq received serious injuries.
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Quest towards eliminating iodine deficiency disorders
To eliminate iodine deficiency, India needs to adopt an alternative approach and use a different set of agents to achieve universal salt iodisation.
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The salt of the earth
Manas Dasgupta The Little Rann of Kutch contributes about 60 per cent of the salt manufactured in the country. But Gujarat
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Adaptive management response of a rural fishery community due to changes in the hydrological regime of a tropical coastal lagoon
In the coastal community of Chabihau, Yucatan, Mexico, hurricanes Gilbert (1988) and Isidore (2002) opened breaches in the coastal dune. The government modified these breaches with a floodgate, channels, and bridges, allowing tidal influx that has transformed the swamp ecosystem into a coastal lagoon.
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Salt of the earth
Sub-surface pipes and bio-drainage are helping revive water-logged and saline land Sub-surface pipes and bio-drainage are helping revive lakhs of acres of water-logged and saline land.
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Global aid to iodise Rajasthan salt
Pilot project has helped producers boost their output, profits Mohammed Iqbal A unique project: International experts watching a crusher-cum-salt iodisation machine provided to small salt producers at Nawa under a UN World Food Programme-sponsored project.