<font class='UCASE'>Mark A Dumol</font> , former chief of staff, Department of Public Works and Highways of Philippines, who played a key role in the privatisation of the Manila Water Supply and Sewerage Board, talks to J <font class='UCASE'>im Downing
A betrayed people: forest land right usurped
water has no colour, no taste, no smell and no shape of its own it runs between our fingers, undefined. As long as we have water, often the real value is not realised. While we crave for pure
Composting of urban waste can meet India s organic manure shortage and clean up our cities
How prepared are we to face a catastrophe?
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Given the state dominated water supply systems, little effort has been made to get rural communities to develop and manage their own water supply systems
Experts from around the world assess the worth of the latest agreement to implement Kyoto Protocol, designated to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in industrialised countries. The latest 'Bonn agreement' was reached at the resumed session of the sixth conf
"I could not cut a tree. From where will I cut a tree when there is no tree. If there are trees, people are already cutting them.' These words of 14-year-old Nirmala, set the tone for the book
Can the US learn to put global interests before its own?
India s forests are not wilderness but habitats. Our wildlife management strategy must for this reason be inclusive of people who live in our national parks and not treat them as biotic interference . An inept wildlife management policy ensures nobody wi
S K HANDA <br> Former head, division of agricultural chemistry, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, writes in Agriculture Today June 2001 that CSE's information is inaccurate and misleading.
The HRD minister wants to teach rainwater harvesting. But is he willing to learn it from communities?
E V V BHASKARA RAO <br> Director, National Research Centre for Cashew, Puttur, Karnataka says, in his paper circulated by the pesticide association, that inbreeding or wrong medication taken during pregnancy could be responsible
PADMA S VANKAR <br> In charge Facility for Ecological and Analytical Testing, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and adviser, CSE's pollution monitoring laboratory
Research is often like an iceberg. The public interest can just be the visible tip with the invisible bulk being the private interest
ANJU SHARMA CONVENTIONAL or 'neo-classical' economists choose not to question a series of outdated assumptions that form the basis of their beliefs. For instance, they believe that there
The powerful pesticide lobby campaigns for a deadly killer that has been linked to many diseases
<font class='UCASE'>Daniel Greenbaum</font> , president and the chief executive officer of the US based Health Effects Institute, has done pioneering work on the health effects of air pollution. During his recent visit to India, he spoke to <font cla
Auto drivers in Delhi will soon realise that CNG makes for good economics
