Delhi

Excreta's economy: a true experience

Every society must understand how the excreta it produces is managed. It teaches us many things about water, about waste, about technologies to clean, economics and politics: of who is subsidised to defecate in our societies. But, most importantly, it teaches us humility. We know so little about our own world.

Publication Date:

14/02/2007

Author(s): Sunita Narain

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

15

Issue:

20070215

pp:

18

Tags:

Water Pollution Control, River Pollution, Yamuna, Sewage Pollution, Sewage Treatment Plants (STP), Drainage, Urban Sanitation, India, Delhi

Habitat And Urbanisation

Master plan for Delhi: with the perspective for the year 2021

Vision-2021 is to make Delhi a global metropolis and a world-class city, where all the people would be engaged in productive work with a better quality of life, living in a sustainable environment. This will, amongst other things, necessitate planning and action to meet the challenge of population growth and in- migration into Delhi; provision of

Publication Date:

01/02/2007

Source: Ministry of Urban Development

Tags:

Environment, Transport, Urbanisation, Housing, Informal Sector, Education, Delhi, Infrastructure Development, Health

Air Pollution

Daily exposure to air pollutants in indoor, outdoor and in-vehicle micro-environments: A pilot study in Delhi

The study measures exposure to air pollution in an urban setting in India. Integrated daily exposure to respirable suspended particulates (RSP) and carbon monoxide (CO) was assessed by personal and area sampling from six micro-environments including those for which prior data did not exist in India.

Publication Date:

01/02/2007

Author(s): Sumeet Saksena, Raj Kumar Prasad, V. Ravi Shankar

Source: Indoor and Built Environment

Vol:

16

Issue:

1

pp:

39

Tags:

Air Pollution, Health Effects, Delhi, Indoor Air Pollution, Vehicular Pollution, Carbon Monoxide, RSPM (PM 10), India

India

Ambient benzene rises in Delhi, Mumbai

despite petrol's benzene content being lowered from 3 per cent to 1 per cent in 2000-2001, there has been no significant effect on the current ambient levels of this carcinogenic chemical.

Publication Date:

30/01/2007

Author(s): Vivek Chattopadhyay

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Air Pollution, Vehicular Pollution, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Urban Air Quality, Benzene, Petrol, National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), India, Delhi, Mumbai, Statistics

Mining

Mining giants, NGOs at Sustainability Summit Asia 2006

THE sustainability bandwagon has expanded if the recent Sustainability Summit

Publication Date:

30/01/2007

Author(s): Kirtiman Awasthi

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Forests, Mining, Industry, NGO, India, Delhi, Orissa (Odisha), Sustainable Development

Air Pollution

20 Asian cities rated for air pollution

in contrast to the conventional practice of rating cities only on the basis of air pollution, a new study has benchmarked 20 Asian cities on their ability to manage air quality. The report, Urban

Publication Date:

14/01/2007

Author(s): Anumita Roychowdhury

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Air Pollution, Air Pollution Control, Urban Environment, Asia, India, Delhi

Society And History

Culture and migration: Reflections from a Delhi slum

Metropolitan slums in diverse nations like India have always been homes to rural migrants from a variety of linguistic, religious and regional backgrounds and reflect a unique cultural dynamism.

Publication Date:

01/01/2007

Author(s): Devesh Vijay

Source: Urban India

Vol:

27

Issue:

1

pp:

72

Tags:

Migration, Slums, Women, Society And History, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Meerut (D)

Water Pollution

Sewage canal: how to clean the yamuna

Several crore rupess have been sunk into plans to clean up the Yamuna. The authorities have been busy chasing targets to fulfill these plans. But the river remains dirty. This book analyses the strategies adopted to clean up the Yamuna, one of India's holiest and dirtiest rivers.

Publication Date:

Jan 2007

Author(s): Suresh Babu S V, Bharat Lal Seth

Source: Centre for Science and Environment

Tags:

Pollution Control, River Pollution, Rivers, Yamuna, Water Quality, India, Delhi

India

Virtual trip on Delhi's DTC buses

Some years ago, Delhi Transport Corporation (dtc) launched the Namaskar Seva. Under this the driver and conductor were to greet passengers with a namaste. The signboard in front of the bus did not

Publication Date:

30/12/2006

Author(s): Anupam Mishra

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

15

Issue:

20061231

pp:

0

Tags:

Vehicular Pollution, CNG, Public Transport, Urban Transport, Cars, Private Sector, India, Delhi