Industry

 Lavish lifestyles

Northern activists join the South's campaign for equal environmental space for all.

Publication Date: 
14/01/1993
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Industry, Technical Cooperation, World Bank, Developing Countries
Air Pollution

 AIDS increases TB death risk

People infected with the AIDS virus are more susceptible to tuberculosis, and this further reduces their chances of survival.

Publication Date: 
29/11/1992
Down to Earth
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Health Care, Infectious Diseases, Tuberculosis, AIDS, Science And Technology, Developing Countries
Industry

 Covering up with a plastic smile

The plastics industry in USA maintains its green image by deviously exporting used containers to developing countries for disposal, finds Greenpeace, an international environment group.

Publication Date: 
14/11/1992
Down to Earth
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Plastics, Industry, NGO, United States Of America (US), Developing Countries, Waste Recycling
Environment

 Energy analysis uncovers interesting trends

WHAT DO the Gulf War, Greenhouse effect and the Narmada project have in common? They are all related to energy, an issue that took centre stage in the 1970s. The oil crisis of 19 made the West

Publication Date: 
14/11/1992
Shobhit Mahajan
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Environment, Developing Countries, Oil
Environment

 Time to put away the begging bowls

LEADERS of developing countries today find in environment a cause of great worldwide concern -- a concern that is steadily growing in their own countries and one that already has deep roots in the

Publication Date: 
14/10/1992
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Environment, UN, Developing Countries, Rio Summit
Environment

 Water treatment need not cost the earth

Countries like India are increasingly opting for expensive, high tech water treatment systems instead of low cost, low tech water treatment alternatives.

Publication Date: 
14/10/1992
Janusz Niemczynowicz
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Environment, Water Quality, Waste Treatment, Developing Countries, Waste Recycling, Pollution Control
Environment

 Problem with conventional water treatment technologies

H K Barman

Publication Date: 
14/10/1992
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Environment

 Touching up water treatment

THE SWEDISH city of Malmo has carefully landscaped an area of about 10,000 ha, which functions as a natural stormwater treatment plant. In Malmo, on the southern Swedish coast, several projects

Publication Date: 
14/10/1992
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Environment, Water Quality, Waste Treatment, Developing Countries, Waste Recycling, Pollution Control
Environment

 Lesson from school students

A high school in the Swedish town of Stensund is an educational centre that can teach the world a lesson on how to manage wastewater.

Publication Date: 
14/10/1992
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Environment

 Who needs high tech water treatment plants?

TRADITIONAL communities developed ingenious ways of making use of wastewater. And, experts involved in the modern science of ecological engineering can learn a great deal from them. There is a

Publication Date: 
14/10/1992
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