India

 Who rules your world?

The Union minister for external affairs says ecology should not be an elitist issue

Publication Date: 
14/11/2000
Anil Agarwal
Down to Earth
Tags:
Environment Education, CSE, India, Sustainable Development, Developing Countries
India

 Greener Shades

The Indian pulp and paper industry reacts positively to the first Green Rating Project conducted by Centre for Science and Environment

Publication Date: 
14/11/2000
Anil Agarwal
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Resources, Wood, Consumption Patterns, Development Journalism, CSE, India, Orissa (Odisha), Sustainable Development
India

 Tryst with rain

Following the monsoon failure of 1999 2000, two states Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh launched crash programmes to encourage water harvesting. An appreciable shift, because governments in India have always gone in for high cost, high technology solutions

Publication Date: 
30/10/2000
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Environment Politics, Water Management, Water Harvesting, Narmada Valley Project, Watershed Development, Traditional Knowledge, Subsidies, Governance, Government Of India (GOI), Community Groups, CSE, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Rainfall, Rural Development
Industry

 Learning the mantra

Report card: The government realised its failures and learned from the civil society. Despite cases of corruption and some errors in planning, the government programme is an achievement
Success level: Good

Publication Date: 
30/10/2000
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Environment Politics, Water Management, Water Harvesting, Narmada Valley Project, Watershed Development, Traditional Knowledge, Subsidies, Governance, Government Of India (GOI), Community Groups, CSE, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Rainfall, Rural Development
India

 Common platform

An environmental rating project provides a meeting ground for the Indian pulp and paper sector

Publication Date: 
30/10/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Research, CSE, India
Industry

 Political harvest

Report card: A scheme that can help solve the water crisis has become a tool to promote political interests of the ruling party
Success level: Poor

Publication Date: 
30/10/2000
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Environment Politics, Water Management, Water Harvesting, Narmada Valley Project, Watershed Development, Traditional Knowledge, Subsidies, Governance, Government Of India (GOI), Community Groups, CSE, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Rainfall, Rural Development
India

 Drought is in the mind

GOOD NEWS: There is more evidence to show that water harvesting can go a long way in dealing with drought and solving the water crisis, and even governments in India are learning
BAD NEWS: Crash programmes are not the answers by themsel

Publication Date: 
30/10/2000
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Environment Politics, Water Management, Water Harvesting, Narmada Valley Project, Watershed Development, Traditional Knowledge, Subsidies, Governance, Government Of India (GOI), Community Groups, CSE, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Rainfall, Rural Development
Mining

 Prize of hard work

the people of Bhaonta-Kolyala village of Alwar district of Rajasthan have constructed a stone checkdam, reinforc

Publication Date: 
30/10/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Watershed Development, Rural Development, Public Participation, CSE, Awards, Alwar (D)
Water Resources

 Delhi hosts Water Asia 2000

Amid private companies high tech solutions to the water crisis, CSE presents a decentralised view of water management

Publication Date: 
14/10/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Resources, Water Conservation, Water Harvesting, Traditional Knowledge, CSE, Delhi
Environment

 Now it is floods

It is time people established their relationship with water once again

Publication Date: 
29/09/2000
Anil Agarwal
Down to Earth
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Water Harvesting, Floods, Urban Habitat, Urbanisation, Urban Management, Hydrology, Governance, CSE, Anil Agarwal, India, Rainfall

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