Mughal system stilll supplies water at zero cost
Mughal builders are known the world over for the Taj Mahal. But their water engineers built a supply system in 1615 that still provides water to a Madhya Pradesh town at no cost.
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Inviting the plague
With all its wealth and affluence, Surat remains the least concerned about health and hygiene
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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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Earnest endeavours
West Bengal s women panchayat members have become the torchbearers of rural development programmes in the state
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A watery affair
The real issues of global water management took a backseat as crisis mongering and anti dam protests hijacked the Second World Water Forum at the Hague
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A plague on this country
The plague today holds the same threshold of dread that it did in the 14th century. So when the Black Death struck India late last month, the administration and the country's health system collapsed under the power of both
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Trouble in the deep
Illegal fishing activity near the shoreline is taking a major toll
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For all that is green
Standing today at the threshhold of a doom 04t can happen actually in a split second in the form of a nuclear holocaust or a germ warfare, the efforts at salvaging the environment should ideally be people oriented
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DENMARK
People collect rainwater without any support from the government. This saves the avoidable overuse of drinking water
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Cracking down on eco crime
Polluters of the environment are now increasingly being regarded as criminals. In New Jersey, there's a new breed of police personnel who are authorised to book them
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Water treatment need not cost the earth
Countries like India are increasingly opting for expensive, high tech water treatment systems instead of low cost, low tech water treatment alternatives.
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Closed systems, open minds
The Centre for Science and Environment CSE has been doing research on health and environment in the public interest. But most government agencies, which are there to serve the people, not only refuse to share information but also create obstacl
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Why is rain a tragedy for cities?
A few days ago, most of India reeled under drought. Cities thirsted for water. Karnataka s chief minister S M Krishna seeing water supply in his software capital reduced to once in three days
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Flood fury
Frequent deluge engulfs new areas and assumes monstrous proportions
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Narmada, Bhopal are issues of democracy, fair deals
Over the past few days, Jantar Mantar has been the venue of two protests against two of worst tragedies Independent India has witnessed. On one side of the road were activists
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SAARC ratifies committee on environment
The ad hoc South Asian technical committee for environmental reforms is accorded permanent status
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The central problem
Callous unconcern, pollution, encroachment and politics is finishing off the lakes in Bhopal and Indore
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"It is wiser for industry to invest in pollution control"
He was the archetypical activist bureaucrat. For A N YELLAPPA REDDY, former special secretary to the government of Karnataka's department of environment and ecology, the issues were real and live. He would not let avaricious politicians and big busine
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Quarrying for trouble
<font color=red><b>Controversy over Himachal limestone mining</b></font><br><br> The subject of limestone mining in ecologically fragile Himachal Pradesh has become a political football, with plans changing as governments change. Villagers are divided on
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