LUCKNOW: Metered water supply is going to be introduced in seven cities of Uttar Pradesh with the user charges being determined by the quantum of water used by the consumers. The system aims at checking the wastage of water. The seven cities are Lucknow, Kanpur, Agra, Varanasi, Allahabad, Meerut and Mathura.

The minister

It is a combination of medical disorders that increase the risk of developing cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Also know as insulin resistance syndrome.

Risks

Syndrome X can lead to hypertension, heart disease, infertility, diabetes and other metabolic-related diseases.

Causes and signs

Biggest causes are sedentary lifestyle and an increase in processed foods consumption.

Alka Pande Posted: Wednesday, Jun 03, 2009 at 0021 hrs IST

Lucknow: After handing over the distribution of electricity in two cities to private hands, the Government of Uttar Pradesh is set to try out the model with the urban water supply as well. Initially, this will be done in one zone each of both Lucknow and Allahabad. The bids are to be invited soon.

Ganga is one of the largest rivers of the world which supports millions of population on its banks. It is a tectonically controlled Himalayan river which also creates havoc due to perennial floods every year. Like most large river systems, it also shifts its course in the Gangetic plains in space and time.

Groundwater quality data on physico-chemical, bacteriological and heavy metal concentrations in three cities (Faridabad, Allahabad and Varanasi) in Ganga-Yamuna basin was subjected to multivariate analysis using SPSS. The factors extracted showed high loading (>0.3) of various parameters, such Cl, conductivity, TDS, hardness, Na, Mg and SO4 indicating contamination due to leaching of pollutants.

Air quality deterioration, especially in urban areas of developing countries, is one of the most alerting problems of modern civilization. Present investigation shows the impact of atmospheric deposition on accumulation and translocation of heavy metals in different parts of wheat plants. Results depicted that metal accumulation was higher at sites with higher pollution load than sites having less pollution.

Every year in from April to July, over one lakh visitors trek 20 km along the Ganga to reach at 14,000 feet above sea level, the Gomukh glacier, the source of one of India's mightiest rivers.

The sugar sector recently faced another setback as a result of a Supreme Court ruling, upholding the right of state governments to determine a sugarcane price that mills are obliged to pay farmers, different from the statutory minimum price (smp), which is fixed by the Centre.

Virendra Singh Rawat / New Delhi/ Lucknow July 14, 2010, 0:26 IST

The Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), under the Union Ministry of Power, is conducting an energy audit in large municipalities of Uttar Pradesh.

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