ON NOVEMBER 18, there was a dust-up between farmers and fishers at Murthikuppam in Puducherry’s Bahour Commune over who would get to talk to the environment ministry’s representative visiting the area. The representative from the ministry’s Bengaluru regional office, U Sridharan, was there to seek views on the partially constructed …
We present evidence that the Indian Sundarbans is experiencing the effects of climate change over the last three decades. Observations of selected variables, such as the surface water temperature, salinity, pH, dissolved oxygen, and transparency show significant long-term variation over a period of 27 years (1980
Two projects for sustainable sanitation and safe water supply systems in Dakop upazila of Khulna district have flopped due to use of low quality equipment, installation of improper equipment, water crisis and lack of training for using the new sanitation system. Modus operandi to implement the two projects is not …
