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 third European conference on environment and health recently organised in London resolved to set an agenda for improving health and environment standards in Europe for the next century. Representatives of 51 countries, international agencies and groups representing consumers and the corporate sector participated in the meet. The theme of …
Courts in Delhi seem to be the only state institution fighting the menace of pollution. Now, the Delhi High Court, under a two-judge bench headed by acting chief justice Devinder Gupta, has directed the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to place before it a report of action taken by various …
swiss researchers have stated that rain falling in Europe is so full of toxic pesticides that much of it is not fit for drinking. Pesticides sprayed on crops evaporate and, in the stratosphere, they react with water vapour. Water contaminated with these toxic substances fall as rain. Stephan Muller of …
the water in our taps may be contaminated with drugs that are as bad as pesticides. And guess how they get into drinking water? Most of the drugs we consume are excreted through urine. "Between 30 to 90 per cent of an administered dose of antibiotics to humans and animals …
This report gives the requirements and methods of sampling and test for drinking water (other than packaged natural mineral water) offered for sale in packaged form.
The story so far... nafisa is always ill. The nine-year-old girl was seven when her parents left their home in Khulna, a district in Bangladesh, and moved to India seeking better prospects. Now Nafisa stays in her makeshift home in a dingy, slum area of Noida, a sprawling industrial satellite …
The buck never stops "We have not failed,' says S R Hashim, member secretary, Planning Commission, commenting on the country's water woes. "Problems are acute only in a few areas. We are chasing the problem, but it remains ahead of us,' he defends. However, he agrees that most political decisions …
FOR THE PEOPLE , BY THE PEOPLE So far, the planners have done their best to leave communities out while conceiving projects. It has not worked, India needs to give water back to its people, the planners need to involve the masses. Almost all the countries that face a water …
Empty wells and year-long thirst a tropical country, India has labyrinthine river networks and numerous water sources fed by the yearly rains. The country receives 400 mham of rain and snowfall. Another 20 mham flow in as surface water from neighbouring countries. These 420 mham provide India with river flows …
water means life. It also means death. Three men were recently charged with setting on fire a woman corporator of Navi Mumbai. The reason: water. Corporator Meena Bhagwan More was attacked by the men, workers of another political party. They first doused her with a can of kerosene, then set …
RUSSIA today is sitting on a bomb - thousands of bombs really. The real nightmare is not that it cannot get rid of more than 36,000 metric tonne of chemical weapons, but that it cannot find the thousands of bombs that lie in abandoned and uncharted weapons dumps, according to …
How do you propose to address the issue of drinking water now that your party is in power? The question is not just how we can address the issue. We should consider why we have such a situation. Earlier, no one bothered about water as it was easily available. It …
out of a total of 52.2 million deaths around the world in 1997, 17.3 million people died due to infectious and parasitic diseases and 15.3 million, due to circulatory diseases. Another 6.2 million people died due to cancer, 2.9 million due to respiratory diseases, mainly chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and …
The Madras High Court has ordered notice to the state government seeking a direction to close down 34 tanneries located in and around Suriyapalayam in Erode. These units had been allegedly contaminating drinking water sources and rendering soil unfit for cultivation. The petition was filed by People Health and Development …
nearly 50 per cent of Calcutta's population may risk developing cardio-vascular diseases due to high carbonate content in drinking water, says a study. A B Dasgupta, member of the West Bengal planning board, says that residents of Salt Lake, north and south Calcutta, have been drinking brackish water containing such …
a simple filter based on sand and iron filings could effectively prevent millions of people being poisoned by arsenic in the water they drink. Nikalaos Nikolaidis, professor of environmental engineering as the University of Connecticut, usa , has created a filter that converts almost all the water-borne arsenic into insoluble …
for the second time, I would like to draw attention to Social Watch , the annual report on social development presented by an informal network of international non-governmental organisations ( ngo s). This "social watchdog' appears to be quite successful in tracing whether governments fulfill promises they so elegantly make …
in february 1998, the epa proposed that regulations on drinking water quality standards for suppliers across the country be made available to the consumers. This would let consumers know the current state of water they drink, according to epa administrator Carol M Browner. The regulation will be finalised later this …
