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 …
Usha Birta Water System, a water filtration and purification system developed in Nepal jointly with a German firm was unveiled early this month in Kathmandu. Golcha Industrial Group, a Nepal-based company has acquired the rights to market the system commercially all across this tiny Himalayan nation. The system has been …
in a bid to boost rural development, engineers in Jaipur have developed a software that would help parched villagers by assisting them predict water supplies. It would also help in proper management of water. The software, called SimTanka , simulates the performance of rainwater harvesting systems with covered water storage …
l Solur, Tamil Nadu, May 1983. Investigations reveal that tanneries in nearby Ambur town have been releasing acidic waste into the river Palar, making the water toxic and unfit for drinking. l Bhopal, December 2, 1984. Methyl isocyanate leaks out of containers in the Union Carbide factory. Many die, thousands …
Relief and compensation for life and property from a disaster is provided in Australia under the State Disaster Act, 1980. The State Disaster Relief Fund (SDRF) is responsible for collecting money for material and personal harm and for administering the fund. The SDRF committee can take decisions in awarding claims …
Year Corporation Country Cause of damage Number of Claimants Compensation (US $) Compensation/ Claimant(US $) 1984 Union Carbide India Methyl isocyanate gas 600,000 470 million 783 1985 Johns Manville USA Asbestos exposure 60,000 2.5 billion 41,667 1986 A H Robins USA Dalkon Shield (intra-uterine device) 94 520 million 5,531,915 1994 …
norwegian environmental engineers say that at least half a million people on the Kola peninsula in northern Russia are drinking water contaminated with raw sewage and heavy metals. They warn that these people may suffer major epidemics of diarrhoea because urine from chicken farms is leaking into the River Kola, …
chlorination of water may lead to thyroid and liver cancers, according to a study conducted by H Komulainen and colleagues at the National Public Health Institute, Kuopio and Institute of Bio-medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland. When a by-product of chlorine called mx was given to rats for two years in …
The green bench of the Calcutta High Court has directed the state health secretary to submit a report on the quality of drinking water supplied in the city. The order was passed on the basis of an old case filed by Gour Kishore Ghosh, a journalist who alleged that due …
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 …
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 …
• 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 …
