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 …
The supply of drinking water contaminated with arsenic could lead to a major health problem in Bangladesh. Babar Kabir, a World Bank water expert says that people are reverting to the use surface water thus being exposed to diarrhoea. The figures available indicate that every year, diarrhoea claims about thousand …
Environmental pollution is responsible for a significant share of violent crime and antisocial behaviour, according to an analysis by Roger Masters of Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. He says metals in, drinki, disrupt the neuro social, economic and psychological factors cannot fully explain why some counties in the US have only …
The arsenic affected areas of West Bengal are lying on a sediment of Younger Deltaic Deposition (YDD). The same sediment extends eastwards towards Bangladesh, covering the approximate area of 34 districts out of a total of 64 districts in Bangladesh. We suspect that the groundwater of these 34 districts of …
GETTING drinking water by immediate purification of sewage, inconceivable sopme years back, is now a reality. An Australian company, Memtec, has successfully used microfiltration technology to purify sewage in a small town in the UK. The town had for the past 30 years been dumping untreated sewage into the sea. …
On when the problem of arsenic poisoning started in West Bengal: The problem started in 1978, but the first official medical diagnosis certificate was released only in September, 1982. On the current status of arsenic poisoning in West Bengal: Till April, 1997 arsenic poisoning has affected eight districts comprising 59 …
own To Earth has been carrying a series of articles on India's vast and ancient experience in rainwater harvesting. These articles are based on a 400-odd page book called Dying Wisdom: The Rise, Fall and Potential of India's Traditional Water Harvesting Systems. Released as a part of series of citizens' …
HERBAL REMEDY:A sore throat reliever, the first of a new range of herbal oral care products, has been launched by the Mumbai-based Kopran Pharmaceuticals. The company will also introduce a mouth ulcer gel, a mouth deodoriser a destaining toothpaste and a cracked voice healer under the Smyle range of products. …
ATAL BIHARI VAJPAYEE when I received the invitation to release your report on the pollution of the Yamuna and its effect on Delhi's drinking water supply, I was a little hesitant. I cannot claim any expertise in this field. But since pollution control and preservation of the environment is central …
• Yamuna (mainstream): 37.50 per cent (546 million litre per day (MLD) treated at Wazirabad; 409.50 MLD at Chandrawal) • Western Yamuna Canal: 33.36 per cent (910 MLD, treated at Haiderpur) • Ranney wells (huge wells on the riverbank) and tubewells: 10.81 per cent (295 MLD) • Ganga: 18.33 per …
On May 20, 1993, 17 persons died and 250 were seriously affected owing to consumption of the town’s polluted water. The tragedy was the handiwork of the Agra Jal Sansthan (AJS)
Troubles over water treatment don curious colours. In January 1997, Lyonnaise des Eaux, France's largest water distribution company, did the unexpected: It sued the government for failing to meet European Union (EU) directives on the maximum permissible level of nitrates in one of the rivers of the nation. The EU …
There are a total of 19 drains in Delhi. Of these, three discharge into the Agra canal, one into downstream Yamuna and 14 into the Delhi segment of the river. Nearly 2,800 million litres daily (MLD) of sewage/industrial effluents containing 200 tonnes (t) of BOD and 160 t of suspended …
A study carried out by H C Agarwal, P K Mittal, K B Menon and M K K Pillai of the department of zoology, University of Delhi, published in August 1985, traced DDT residues in water, bottom sediments and certain organisms from four different sites in the river. Total DDT …
“Round-the-clock monitoring by a network of zonal laboratories and a central laboratory ensures water quality. In Delhi, where people are very vocal, we cannot afford to be lax even for a moment,” claims a dwssdu spokesperson. However, Delhi itself is the Yamuna’s biggest polluter. “The stretch in the vicinity of …
Segment I: Himalayan: From source to Tajewala; 172 km Segment II: Upper: From Tajewala to Wazirabad; 224 km Segment III: Delhi: Wazirabad barrage to Okhla barrage; 22 km Segment IV: Eutrophicated (Eutrophication is the result of astronomical BOD and other micropollutant levels): Okhla barrage to Chambal confluence; 490 km Segment …
This article began with a very simple thought. The Centre for Science and Environment’s (cse) campaigner on sustainable water management, Himanshu Thakkar, had prepared a draft paper on urban drinking water in which he had reviewed a number of documents and newsclippings that the Centre’s library had gathered on the …
Given the speed with which India's rivers are getting polluted, her urban environmentalists will soon have to adopt a new thought process: 'Think upstream'. Because all poisons dumped upstream - whether the source is industry or agriculture - ultimately reach somebody's drinking water. A poor nation like ours finds the …
ashok Gadgil, a scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (lbnl), California has invented a device that uses ultraviolet (uv) rays to disinfect water. The invention could dramatically improve health conditions in India and other Third World countries. The uv purifier, called uv Waterworks, uses just a fraction of energy …
Parched and thirsty. A more gloomier scenario could not have been predicted for Asian countries in the coming years by the World Bank (WB). And this is in spite of the periodic floods that visit unfortunate shores in China, Bangladesh, Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia and elsewhere. Water supplies in Asia, earlier …
