Habitat And Urbanisation

Special regulations for development of tourist resorts/holiday homes/township in hill station type areas

Special regulations for development of tourist resorts/holiday homes/township in hill station type areas.

Publication Date: 
03/07/1997
Urban Development Department
Tags:
Lavasa Corporation, Habitat And Urbanisation, Urban Planning, Pune (D), Maharashtra, Tourism, Reservoirs, Urban Development, Green Spaces, Drinking Water
Environment

 The way to clean sewage

Sewage treatment by filtration through a semi permeable membrane has proved successful

Publication Date: 
29/06/1997
Down to Earth
Tags:
Drinking Water, Environmental Science, United Kingdom (UK), Australia
India

 'Calcutta is sifting on a time bomb ... '

DIPANKAR CHAKRABORTI, director, School of Environmental Studies, Jadavpur University has done significant work among people affected by Arsenic poisoning in West Bengal. According to him even Parts of Calcutta are affected. One of the ways to combat

Publication Date: 
14/06/1997
Down to Earth
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Water Quality, Drinking Water
Economy

 Of bottles and kundis

I have often argued that there is no village in India which cannot meet its drinking water needs if it adopts the kundi technology developed by the people of Rajasthan s Thar desert

Publication Date: 
30/05/1997
Anil Agarwal
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Drinking Water, Anil Agarwal
India

 Moneymakers

HERBAL REMEDY:A sore throat reliever, the first of a new range of herbal oral care products, has been launched by the Mumbai-based Kopran Pharmaceuticals. The company will also introduce a

Publication Date: 
14/05/1997
Down to Earth
Tags:
Green Products, Drinking Water, Drugs, Oral Health, Technology, Information, India
Water Resources

 Toxic turnover

Homicide by Pesticides: words of shared concern

Publication Date: 
14/03/1997
Down to Earth
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Tags:
River Pollution, Yamuna, Drinking Water, Pesticide Residues, Toxic Wastes
Climate Change

 Poison river

Mythology has named Yamuna after the sister of Yama, the Hindu God of death. With the presence of toxic pesticides and chemicals in the river, this nomenclature seems prophetic

Publication Date: 
27/02/1997
Max Martin, Rajat Banerji
Down to Earth
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River Pollution, Yamuna, Drinking Water, Health Effects, Pesticide Residues, Delhi, Agra (D)
Climate Change

 The segments

Segment I: Himalayan: From source to Tajewala; 172 km Segment II: Upper: From Tajewala to Wazirabad; 224 km Segment III: Delhi: Wazirabad barrage to Okhla barrage; 22 km Segment IV:

Publication Date: 
27/02/1997
Down to Earth
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River Pollution, Yamuna, Drinking Water, Health Effects, Pesticide Residues, Delhi, Agra (D)
Climate Change

 How much. And from where

Delhi gets its water from the following sources off the Yamuna

Publication Date: 
27/02/1997
Down to Earth
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River Pollution, Yamuna, Drinking Water, Health Effects, Pesticide Residues, Delhi, Agra (D)
India

 The eutrophicated segment and Agra

Agra’s residents drink the waters of the Yamuna which become a ‘green soup’ in the fourth segment

Publication Date: 
27/02/1997
Down to Earth
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Tags:
River Pollution, Yamuna, Drinking Water, Health Effects, Pesticide Residues, Delhi, Agra (D)

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