Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
Successive governments in Punjab have been assuring the people of providing them clean drinking water. But, an analysis of water samples collected from various cities of the state narrate an entirely different story, finds The Tribune Patiala: Safety claims go down the drain Patiala: The recent outbreak of gastroenteritis and …
With the city recording nine cases of dengue, over a hundred cases of malaria and several of cholera this season, the deficient rain seems to be offering no solace to the health department which is now gearing up to take the full onslaught of vector and water-borne diseases that plague …
This overview of recent research on health behaviour change in developing countries shows progress as well as pitfalls. In order to provide guidance to health and social scientists seeking to change common practices that contribute to illness and death, there needs to be a common approach to developing interventions and …
Without water people cannot survive, but without good sanitation and hygiene practices the water available could become contaminated and lead to disease and death. Every year 1.5 million people, most of them children, die from complications associated with diarrhea that they picked up from dirty water.
The objective of the study was to estimate the disease burden attributable to unsafe water and poor sanitation and hygiene in China, to identify high-burden groups and to inform improvement measures.
2012 has brought welcome news of the progress made in bringing water and sanitation to the many people worldwide still without access to these essential services. The Joint Monitoring Programme between the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF reported that the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target for water was achieved …
This is the report of a Technical Working Group which was convened, in April 2012, to develop an OCV stockpile implementation framework. Participants advised on: the criteria for choice of stockpiled vaccine and its deployment; the appropriate size of an OCV stockpile; the managing partnership and evaluation processes required; the …
DIPAYAL: With authorities failing to contain the spread of large number of diarrhoea cases in Doti since mid-June, health workers today confirmed the spread to cholera saying it might soon become an epidemic if corrective measures are not taken on a war footing. Local residents have been terrified and health …
There is increasing concern regarding the role of climate change in driving bacterial waterborne infectious diseases. Here we illustrate associations between environmental changes observed in the Baltic area and the recent emergence of Vibrio infections and also forecast future scenarios of the risk of infections in correspondence with predicted warming …
125 under treatment, Residents protest MC ‘laxity’, Deaths not due to the disease, claims Civil Surgeon Patiala: Gastroenteritis has taken a fatal form in a Patiala colony. Three persons have already succumbed to the disease whereas 125 have been admitted to various hospitals in the city. Mixing of sewage with …
In order to ensure provision of potable water and protect the tribal communities from waterborne diseases, the political administration has completed five drinking water schemes in various villages of Bajaur Agency that would benefit thousands of dwellers in the agency. A press release issued by FATA secretariat on Monday stated …
A study by international institutes, led by the Sanford School of Public Policy and the Duke Global Health Institute, has found that the drinking water of nearly 90 per cent of households in rural Andhra Pradesh is contaminated by faecal bacteria. There are 71,540 habitations in the state, accounting for …
Chandigarh: A total of 11 patients, including five children, suffering from diarrhoea were referred to hospitals in the city on Tuesday. As many as 269 patients were examined today by a team of doctors. A team from the Municipal Corporation conducted a house-to-house check of the water supply in Mauli …
Diarrhoeal disease is the fifth leading cause of all mortality globally. To this burden, rotavirus contributes over half a million deaths annually. This pilot study was conducted to determine the economic burden of diarrhoeal episodes on families from different geographical regions accessing medical facilities in India.
JAIPUR: Climate change is expected to adversely impact human health in the state by increasing the risk of exposure to vector, water- and food-borne diseases. It can also aggravate malnutrition and increase mortality and morbidity associated with changes in intensity and frequency of extreme events. Potential impacts of climate change …
Delhi Government bans cutting of all roads from June 30 The Delhi Government has issued a flood control order, operationalised a central flood control room and banned cutting of all roads from June 30 as part of its initiatives and preparations for the monsoon this year. Chairing a meeting of …
Some good sanitation news, discussed in a Nature commentary this week, is that some 80 percent of India’s urban residents now have access to a toilet. The bad news is that only a third of India’s urban households with a toilet have a connection to a sewage pipe network, and …
Water pollution from sewage is causing great damage to India. The nation needs to complete its waste systems and reinvent toilet technologies, says Sunita Narain.
If architecture is 'design for living', one of its greatest challenges is how to live with the masses of waste we excrete. Four pioneers in green sanitation design outline solutions to a dilemma too often shunted down the pan.
MANSEHRA - The residents of Mansehra and its suburban areas are prone to various types of disease because they are compelled to drink contaminated water, as the area has old rusty pipelines. Sources said the contaminated water was causing a spread of various diseases in the city and big towns …
