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 …
Nine districts in West Bengal, India, and 42 districts in Bangladesh have arsenic levels in groundwater above the World Health Organization maximum permissible limit of 50
EFFICIENT DISINFECTION: If made possible, non-chemical and energy-efficient disinfection of drinking water in emergency situations is of no mean value. Eva H
despite the hue and cry raised by the Bangladesh media about the arsenic contamination of drinking water, around 20 million people are likely to be still consuming tainted water. This was stated in the British Geological Survey report of 1999. However, this figure is disputed by the Dhaka Community Hospital …
N Venkatachala Chairperson, National Environment Appellate Authority The government must, first of all, take strict action to resolve matters relating to clean water, clean air and human health because every citizen has a right to these basic necessities of life. Adequate laws to safeguard the environment are already in existence, …
the uk celebrated a decade of steadily improving drinking water and marked it with a weeklong celebration. "In England and Wales, water companies operate under some of the toughest quality regulations in the world. The Drinking Water Inspectorate ( dwi )has worked hard over the last 10 yearsto achieve high …
the Haryana government has sanctioned Rs 8.88 crore for 21 sewerage and water supply schemes for the villages and towns in the district of Fatehabad. Also in the pipeline are six more schemes at an estimated cost of Rs 59.08 lakh. This was disclosed by the state finance minister Sampat …
Come 2001 and residents of the Naktong River basin in the southeastern parts of the country will start paying a water-use charge. The government has finalised plans to overhaul the water quality of the river by 2008 through volume-based emissions system. The government hopes that this plan will improve the …
This paper presents the potential of rainwater harvesting for drought-proofing India's villages. It urges members of parliament and state legislative assemblies to ensure that the governments take up rainwater harvesting on a large scale to improve local food security. There is enough rainwater in every village of India to meet …
the department of atomic energy's ( dae 's) upcoming Koodankulam Atomic Power Project ( kapp ) at Koodankulam, 25 km north of Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, has run into a controversy. Local residents are complaining that not only will the project aggravate water scarcity in the area but also heightened their …
The ministry of environment in South Korea has announced a six-year plan to improve the water quality of the Naktong River. The river is a source of drinking water for about 13 million residents of the southeastern Kyongsang provinces. The project will construct more than 266 sewage treatment plants and …
In yet another instance of animal-human conflict, wild elephants in Meghalaya's West Garo hills are giving the farmers in the area sleepless nights. The pachyderms are descending on the village in hordes and trampling the crops that are ready for harvesting. The Bishnoi community protested against the killing of 25 …
In May 1999, Greenpeace International, along with the Bhopal-based NGOs Bhopal Group for Information and Action and Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sanghatana, carried out an investigation of the former UCIL site. Samples of soil were collected both from areas once used for waste disposal, and around the former Sevin …
four villages in the Khurda tehsil in Orissa , are facing a severe drinking water crisis. The water, according to reports, contains toxins. The residents of Singpur, Balasing, Balasinghpatna and Pallibalasingh are struggling against the onslaught of a number of diseases but the state government is yet to take corrective …
Only 2.5 per cent of all the world's water is fresh, that is, fit for human consumption, agriculture and industry. However, in several parts of the world, water is being used at a much faster rate than can be replenished by rainfall. The United Nations warns that the shortage of …
Politicians do more to deplete water than provide people a sustained supply At the recent meeting of the World Water Commission in Stockholm - set up last year with the support of several governments and United Nations' agencies - to develop a vision for water management in the next century, …
india's first mass arsenic removal community-based programme to provide safe drinking water to more than 400 affected villages of West Bengal will begin in October. The Rs 9-crore project will be executed by the All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health ( aiih&ph;). A large chunk of aid will …
delhi is in the grip of a jaundice epidemic with over 300 cases of the disease reported so far. Of these, 140 had to be admitted to various hospitals for treatment. Delhi health minister A K Walia has instituted an inquiry committee to look into the cause of the epidemic …
not very long ago, scientists disproved the widely held belief that it is not curry, worry and hurry that cause stomach ulcers but the wily bacterium Helicobacter pylori . This germ has since been implicated in a wide variety of gastrointestinal diseases from stomach inflammation to ulcers and even cancer. …
