The price of water
Low water prices have been pinpointed as being responsible for wasteful consumption by both domestic and industrial consumers, but what does the government propose to do about it?
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Patancheru: water woes
While the apex court has brought to Patancheru's effluent riddled land some relief in the forms of compensation and drinking water, it has not yet remarked on the government agencies' non functioning complacence
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Coating Autonomy With Colonialism
In the year of UNCED, the green movement continued to take tosses in the global context. The perception of the environmental crisis as mainly being a failure of technology and management was only one obstacle. Even more disastrous, UNCED paved the way for
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Puberty too soon
Chemicals resembling oestrogen, may be causing sexual irregularities in adolescent girls
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Missing the bus
The whole world is moving towards CNG. But the crisis of governance in Delhi keeps the air filthy
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Sustaining terra firma
Scientists in New Zealand have developed a low cost technology that can clean contaminated soil
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Dirty detergents
Detergents are rated for how ecofriendly they are
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Bottled water costs us the earth
The botted water industry is global in nature. But it is designed to sell the same product to two completely different markets one water rich and the other water scarce. The question is whether this
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Food Safety in Bhutan
<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Food Safety in Bhutan</strong></span></p> <p><img alt="Food Safety" src="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/country/bhutan/foodsafety_hl.jpg" style="width: 530px; height: 300px; border-width: 2px; border-style: solid;" /></p> <p>Bhutan regulates public health and safety in regards to food under the Food Act of 2005.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FA05_13-0"></sup> The Food Act establishes the National Food Quality and Safety Commission and the Bhutan Agriculture and Food Regulatory Authority ("BAFRA"), both of which are overseen by the Ministry of Agriculture. While the Ministry of Agriculture is singularly authorized to author regulations under the Food Act, the Minister of Agriculture may delegate authority to ministries responsible for health, trade, and customs.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FA05_13-1"></sup></p>
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Clear concepts, unclear courses
THE National Front (NF)the opposition alliance (between the JanataDal (it)) and some regional parties)led by V P Singhcame to power atthe Centre in 1989. The JD'S environmental concernsone of themost
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Crying over split oil
Rapid modernization in the oil industry is needed, as sloppy management and efficiency in tracing recent subterfuges has led to the loss of thousands of tones of oil in Russia. The environmental impact remains to be assessed
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Delhi ridge: a lifeline in danger
Encroachments by the poor and the rich alike are proving to be the ridge's bane. The malady is monumental, and the court's healing touch has provided incomplete relief at best
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Hybrid buses: green steps in dark shadows
<p style="line-height: 22px; font-size: 14px; margin-top: 5px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The pilot project on electric, hybrid buses for public transport
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In A Spot
Are the new industrial siting rules a boon or a bane?
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Taking the lead
India's chief ministers are beginning to take note of environmental problems. But just about. The Centre for Science and Environment conducted a survey of <i>Down To Earth</i> readers and India's environmentalists. A report on the nature of the work carri
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Peer Review
Environmentalists express their views on the chief minister of their states
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Dead fish tell tales...
...as the case of Betwa proves. Tales which have the power to move a whole town in Madhya Pradesh and send the notoriously slothful official machinery into a whirligig of activity. It is all about a people’s struggle to save the highly polluted Betwa rive
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For the people...
Conservation policies practised in the developing world need to tread cautiously on territories which had for generations, belonged to the people, says a statement by the Centre for Science and Environment
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'Serious study has not yet begun'
R Uma Shankar, Department of Crop Physiology, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, speaks to Down To Earth
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The spirit of the sanctuary
<I>FIVE YEARS ago, the social forestry department in Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra cleared several trees from a forest near Nandivse village to plant acacia trees. It did not know that the 4-ha patch was a sacred grove surrounding the temple of a powerful local deity, Kal Bhairon. The villagers, too, joined in because they were paid for the felling and planting.