This document is intended to assist water development practitioners, civil society peacebuilders, and human rights advocates seeking to integrate water and peacebuilding in their work. The purpose is twofold: to furnish a conceptual framework for understanding problems of scarcity and equity, and to provide practical guidance and tools for action.
SIVASAGAR, Nov 11: After the finding of a contaminated drinking water bottle manufactured by Tirupati Water Industries and the subsequent ultimatum by AASU to ban the sale of drinking water bottles manufactured by the company, authorities of the company has appealed to the student
This study makes an attempt to examine analytically to prove how tank rehabilitation is useful for both direct (farmers) and indirect (landless, poor, women and other vulnerable group) tank users. The tank systems have provided insulation from dependence on rains to the people living in the fragile rainfed areas.
Mumbai: Packaged drinking water sales are up in a pocket of Santacruz (west). Almost the entire neighbourhood near Asha Parekh Hospital is buying bottled water, what with several cases of diarrhoea being reported everyday. In the Sushila Baug Co-operative Housing Society, the disease has struck 35 of the 60 families since July-end.
Bangalore, July 3 Underwriters Laboratories has launched a certification programme for bottled water in India, a year after it introduced the service in the US.
With the Rs 1,000-crore Indian packaged water industry estimated to grow at 40 per cent, safety certification assumes more importance in a country that experiences large-scale waterborne diseases.
Ramesh ChauhanMineral water major Bisleri International plans to set up 25 new bottling plants across India and aims to achieve a 40 per cent growth rate in the current fiscal, a top company official said.
