FOR the past two years 1,500-odd families in a small town of Tripura have not received a modest drinking water supply. Reason: a dispute over water withdrawal from the Feni river, the international border between India and Bangladesh. Though the Feni passes through Sabroom, the town entirely depends on groundwater. …
CALL it a pressing need to meet the growing thirst of the Mumbai metropolitan area or plain negligence, but the Maharashtra government is building a dam in a quake-prone zone. Worse, work is going on without environmental clearance or the consent of people who stand to lose their homesteads, livelihoods …
IN 2004, residents of West Virginia, US, accused a chemical manufacturing company of contaminating drinking water supply in the region with a fluorinated organic compound. Perfluorocarbons (PFCs) are man-made chemicals used to produce teflon, found in countless household products like non-stick cookware, pizza and popcorn boxes. The accumulation of PFC …
In many Indian villages, women and children spend a large part of the day fetching water over long distances. This is despite the Centre’s policy to provide drinking water to all rural habitations. The government set deadlines for providing 100 per cent drinking water cover to the country’s 1.6 million …
Those who believe aerated drinks do nothing other than send adipose tissues into overdrive, spare a thought for the country’s excise department. An ad issued by the department on February 21 exhorted: “Drink aerated dr-inks and do social service.” It explained this unlikely way of doing social good: “Excise duty …
This report captures a range of cost effective and sustainable community-led solutions to meet the challenge of water scarcity in the Marwar region of Rajasthan.
Manoj Lodhiwal is the head salesperson at a household appliance store in south Delhi. Every morning as the storeowner performs puja, he examines how and where to display products. “The facade must remain stacked with home water purifiers; they are the hottest items,” Lodhiwal said. His store is in Mohan …
Karnataka’s irrigation department has fast-tracked construction work to divert water from the Mahadayi river to the Malaprabha. The canal project is under dispute but the state’s water resources department is adamant that it is crucial to meet the drinking water needs of the twin towns, Hubli and Dharwad, that aim …
TELUGU Desam Party chief Chandrababu Naidu reignited the Godavari river water sharing controversy when he was arrested last month on his way to the Babhali barrage in Maharashtra’s Nanded district. Andhra Pradesh has long held that the barrage, located 7 km into its border with Maharashtra, will deprive Telangana of …
On the bottled water revolution Bottled water consumption in the US, and worldwide, has been growing rapidly for two decades. It really began when bottlers started using plastic bottles. In my book, Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water, I argue there are four major reasons …
On reasons for conducting social audit Social audit means involving people in an audit process. It provides a platform to the public to voice their grievances. We wanted to reach out to the common man as many problems affecting them go unheard. A social audit would give them a platform.On …
Ranchi, March 31: Jharkhand High Court today directed the state government and Nagarjuna Constructions, a private company, to furnish a status report on laying of pipelines in Giridih for supply of drinking water. The division bench, comprising Chief Justice Gyan Sudha Misra and Justice R.R. Prasad, also ordered the state …
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: The Centre plans to ensure safe drinking water to all habitations by 2012. It has also set a target of covering rural India under the
The Rs. 1,334-crore Hogenakkal drinking water project has nothing to do with power generation or irrigation, Tamil Nadu Public Works Minister Durai Murugan said here on Thursday. Asked for his reaction to the former Karnataka Chief Minister S.M. Krishna's remark that whether the project had provided for power generation or …
Rihon Daimari, PHE Minister, today inaugurated two power plants at Kumbhirgram tea estate and another at Bahadurpur in Cachar in the presence of high officials of the Department, MLAs and the general public. Addressing the gathering at both the places, the minister in said the two plants each with a …
Politicians thrive on controversies. Senior BJP leader B.S. Yeddyurappa, who was in the Chief Minister's chair for just a week, appeared desperate to work up an emotive election-eve campaign when, on March 16, he along with a handful of supporters crossed over to Tamil Nadu in a coracle and demanded …
More than uniting people and finding solutions to their problems through the process of dialogue and statesmanship, the politicians in our country have a propensity to sow discord and vitiate the atmosphere to a point that even simple issues get complicated. And if they smell an election round the corner, …
Bharatiya Janata Party MLA from Saket Vijay Jolly on Wednesday accused the Delhi Government of failing to provide the people with adequate water and said that while Rs.1,800 crore have been spent in the name of cleaning the Yamuna and a lot of money has also been spent on improving …
With Tamil Nadu's Hogenakkal project on its border with Karnataka becoming a major political controversy between the two States, the former Karnataka Chief Minister, S.M. Krishna, and Union Minister T.R. Baalu, from Tamil Nadu, on Wednesday called on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and sought Central intervention to resolve the issue. …
The latest spark in the tenuous ties between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, already at war over the sharing of the Cauvery waters, is a proposal resurrected from the archives by Tamil Nadu chief minister M. Karunanidhi to tap the Hogenakkal waters for quenching the dry western districts of Dharmapuri and …
