Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
This article presents a case study of a successful Community-led Total Sanitation Campaign from Bhiwani district in Haryana. Social acceptance of hygienic sanitation practices has led to enormous benefits for the village community.
About 1.2 billion people in the world live with inadequate access to safe drinking water. Over 2.6 billion do not have access to sanitation facilities In developing countries 80 per cent of the health problems are linked to inadequate water and sanitation, claiming the lives of nearly 1.8 million children …
Around 99 percent of water supplied to the population is unfit for human consumption due to which over 200,000 children under five die from diarrhoea, typhoid fever, cholera and hepatitis A and E every year. Pakistan Council for Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) scientist Hifza Rasheed said this during a …
Manjit Kaur could hardly have believed it but she has been cured of a two-decade-old list of ailments. Her cure has come neither through a doctor nor a stack of pills, but instead from a community-based safe drinking water project commissioned in her native Muktsar district, Punjab, four months ago. …
Why do the poor pay the highest price for water and the rich, who have piped connection, get the inexpensive water in our cities? Why is there an outbreak of water borne disease frequently due to polluted water? What is lacking: There is lack of investment to price water price …
Musavirr Wani URI, July 24: Three years down the line since the killer quake hit Uri and its adjacent villages almost 75 percent people face gastroenteritis or psychiatric problems. After visiting several villages of Uri different people narrated different tales. In some cases either people face gastroenteritis or psychiatric problems. …
BERHAMPUR: Health officials are camping in remote villages in Patrapur block following detection of presence of Vibrio bacteria in blood samples of patients suffering from diarrhoea. As many as 28 persons, including eight children, have died of diarrhoea and hundreds affected by the disease in the block. Though health officials …
Mumbai, July 09 The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's epidemiology cell recorded another death due to leptospirosis, taking the overall death toll due to monsoon-related ailments to 41. A 50-year-old man, a resident of Nal Bazar, succumbed to leptospirosis on Wednesday morning at 2 am. He was admitted to the BYL Nair …
Several hundred head of camel, sheep and cattle shoved and bustled in the blistering afternoon heat to get closer to the well. Many of them were crying and braying from thirst. Nearby, also waiting their turn, half a dozen Touareg nomads sat on donkeys carrying empty yellow water containers. Some …
Mumbai, July 2 Doctors caution against self-medication, advise immediate medical intervention Besides large number of cases of leptospirosis, dengue, malaria, gastroenteritis and viral fever, doctors across the city are also seeing a small, but significant, surge in typhoid cases. "Pre-monsoons we saw hardly one typhoid case in 15 days. But …
The present article deals with the extent of water resources, sources and causes of water pollution, impact of water pollution on human health, and challenges, development and future perspectives of food safety.
WHILE the Mumbai civic administration is dealing with an increase in cases of rain-related ailments this monsoon, the state health administration has had to tackle fewer instances of disease outbreaks so far. Since April, there have been only 15 deaths in the other parts of the state due to water-borne …
Kounteya Sinha | TNN New Delhi: One in every 10 diseases and 6% of all deaths globally are caused by unsafe water and improper hygiene. In India, 1.03 crore people die annually of which, nearly 7.5%
Three women and a youth died of gastroenteritis in the last two days in Goriya and Farid Shah villages, Arifwala tehsil. Reports say that residents of these villages have been complaining about stomach pain to local nazims, but they have never taken it seriously. Located under the shadow of Arifwala, …
The state government will set up laboratories soon at all district headquarters in the state for water testing to provide safe drinking water to people after it was found that most diseases are caused by polluted drinking water. These laboratories will be funded by IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development) …
THE Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has gained control over the exceeding Malaria cases from past few days. There was not a single case of Malaria registered on Thursday, informed Shubhada Gudekar, Chairperson of Public Health Committee. She said that as soon as a hospital receives a case of Malaria or …
NEW DELHI: For resident doctors and research and medical students staying in the hostels of the All-India Institute of Medical Science here, "sterilised, clean drinking water' will no longer be a luxury. Having fought to keep viral hepatitis, gastroenteritis and other water-related diseases at bay each summer year after year, …
