The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Depressed? A sip of water might be just the thing to lift your spirits. In the uk, rivers as well as groundwater reserves are teeming with the antidepressant Prozac, reveals an Environment Agency report. Experts say the drug gets into the rivers and water system via treated sewage water. The …
a team of Indian and us researchers has created a tiny filter, which is entirely made of carbon atoms and has several applications ranging from sieving out the minutest germs in drinking water to filtering unwanted hydrocarbons in petroleum products. The cylindrical filter that has been prepared by the New …
A report of analysis of pesticide residues in soft drinks conducted by Centre for Science and Environment(CSE), was made public on 5th August, 2003. This Report was covered very prominently by both electronic and print media. In the Report it was stated that CSE found pesticide residues, in the samples …
eight years ago the Gujarat High Court had fined 756 industrial units in Odhav, Naroda and Vatva industrial areas in Ahmedabad district for polluting 20 villages in Ahmedabad and Kheda districts. The factories were asked to pay one per cent of their gross turnover of one year as compensation. The …
Three small villages near Lebong town in Darjeeling district of West Bengal no longer need the government for water, or to earn a livelihood. Yangkhoo, Dabaipani, and Harsing together run their own 24-hour drinking water supply system and export certified organic tea. All plans, like the latest one to export …
function graph() { var popurl="image/20040731/8-graph.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=600,height=500,scrollbars=yes") } finance minister (fm) P Chidambaram's budget for 2004-2005 is actually the interim budget presented by his predecessor Jaswant Singh of the National Democratic Alliance (nda). There are minor variations in allocations. The two exceptions are defence (an additional Rs 11,700 crore) and the …
I travelled in Kerala last fortnight, seeking answers. I wanted to know what government was doing to meet the drinking water needs of people in this wet-drought state. Searching in villages and academic papers, an anomalous statistic caught my eye. According to 1999 estimations of the National Sample Survey Organisation …
Israel has drawn up a clandestine plan for a giant desalination plant to supply drinking water to the Palestinian territory in West Bank. Apparently this is a ploy to retain control of the region's aquifers and keep at bay pressures to grant water to any future Palestinian state. The new …
shocking levels of lead in Washington's tap water have prompted us lawmakers to introduce a bill to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act (sdwa). The new bill, called Lead-free Drinking Water Act of 2004, proposes several changes, including increasing funding to clean up tap water. One of the main recommendations …
admitting that the abandoned Union Carbide plant in Bhopal has polluted the groundwater of nearby areas, the Supreme Court (sc) has directed the Madhya Pradesh (mp) government to immediately start supplying drinking water by tankers to 12 colonies in the plant's vicinity. The directive on May 7, 2004, has come …
Elections 2004 are over. Was it a vote for development, social inclusion and justice? Or simply a vote against an incumbent government, flattened by sleazy and slick self-promotion? The answer is complicated, as can be expected from a country as diverse and layered as India. So, for instance, it can …
function map_table() { var popurl="html/20040531_cover.htm" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=780,height=500,scrollbars=yes") } In Kerala, land of 44 rivers and backwaters and a state with over 3,000 mm of annual rainfall there was a drought this February and March
Living amidst rivers and lakes and blessed by bountiful rain, the people of Kerala are yet to realise that they face a water crisis. Droughts come, but are treated as aberrations. On the one hand water usage is shooting up, on the other rains are playing truant. Unless it gets …
All places in Kerala, except a few in Palakkad, got more rainfall this summer than the national average. “Considering that India receives only 1,100 mm of rainfall as long period average, isn’t it absurd to say that Kerala suffered acute water scarcity even after getting 2,270 mm of rain in …
THE steady downward trend of rainfall in Kerala for the past five years went unnoticed. The rapid fall in groundwater, too, didn't raise eyebrows. With 44 rivers and an annual average rainfall of 3,000 mm, Kerala goes to sleep with sweet dreams of water all around. But in February 2004, …
Under the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) of the United Nations (UN), it has been agreed to halve the number of people without access to safe drinking water by 2015. The Johannesburg Plan of Implementation, agreed at the World Summit on Sustainable Development, added a similar global sanitation target. All this …
function map() { var popurl="image/20040515/60-map.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=475,height=300,scrollbars=yes") } • As the world moves from the International Year of Freshwater (2003) to the UN Decade of Freshwater (2005-2015), two billion people in over 40 nations face freshwater shortage (see map) • 2.5 per cent of Earth's water is freshwater. Less than one …
The Mahajans, a family of four who live in Vasant Kunj, South Delhi, daily waste 240 litres of water to get 30 litres from their reverse osmosis (RO) purifier six times a day. “I bought the purifier thinking it will end all our water woes. It gives us clean drinking …
The quality of ground water across the Bareilly city has been determined by analyzing different physico-chemical parameters. Alkalinity and hardness of groundwater is beyond the WHO limits. Water quality index of different sites is also calculated.
