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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Coastal belt, once seen as unproductive zone, has proved to be silver lining
SALINE IS SWEET IN GUJARAT Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Ahmedabad: Salinity has ingressed up to 12 km from the coast in Gujarat. Over 2,500 coastal villages in the state are partially or fully affected by salinity. Residents find it hard to get drinking water and farmers can
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RaPoPb isotope systematics in waters of Sambhar Salt Lake, Rajasthan (India): geochemical characterization
The Sambhar Salt Lake hydrological system, including river waters, groundwaters, evaporating pans and sub-surface brines, has been analyzed for the salt content (TDS) and naturally occurring radionuclides (210Po, 210Pb and 226,228Ra).
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Recovery of better quality reusable salt from soak liquor of tanneries in solar evaporation pans
The segregation, collection and disposal of saline wastewater streams into solar evaporation are practiced in tanneries to minimize the Total Dissolved Solids (TDS)and Chlorides in the treated effluent and to protect the environment. The wastewater
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Salt farmers
while the Andhra Pradesh government is yet to recognize salt makers as farmers, two recent government orders mention
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Old Farming Habits Leave Uzbekistan a Legacy of Salt
Salt crunches underfoot like frosty soil on this bare stretch of land in western Uzbekistan. Cotton, to be used to make a mattress, is stacked in a home. The status of Uzbekistan as the world's second-largest cotton exporter is in danger because of environmental destruction. "Thirty years ago, this was a cotton field,' said a 61-year-old farmer who has lived near this city all his life. "Now it's a salt flat.'
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State Pulse: Gujarat: Scorching salt
People have to be placed at the centre if conservation has to make sense universally. What makes things even worse, is that these so-called protected zones allow commercial activities to go almost unchecked- Ravleen Kaur The earth is cracked and the horizon bare.The deathly silence is broken by the occasional whirring of crude-oil pumps.Women, going about their daily life in bright mirror-work lehangas, add a dash of colour to an otherwise arid background. This tough terrain has dominated 50-year-old Shantabhai Maganbhai Bamania's life since he was 10.
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The wounds of salt
Kharaghoda, a large village located on the edge of the Little Rann of Kutch in Gujarat, has a population of 12,000. Here's the shocker: 500 of them are widows.
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The wounds of salt
Kharaghoda, a large village located on the edge of the Little Rann of Kutch in Gujarat, has a population of 12,000. Here