Agriculture

 R Devendra

Kedar, Tamil Nadu

Publication Date: 
14/07/2001
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Soil Erosion, Agriculture, Fodder, Water Conservation, Water Harvesting, Drinking Water, Dams, Afforestation, Watershed Development, Gujjar, Women, Panchayats, CSE, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu
Industry

 Arsenic traps

Supercomputers have been used

Publication Date: 
29/06/2001
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Arsenic, Drinking Water, Industry, Technology, Mexico
Industry

 Sewer river

The countdown to the cleaning up of the Yamuna has begun. The Supreme Court sets a deadline

Publication Date: 
14/05/2001
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River Pollution, Yamuna, Water Quality, Drinking Water, Industry, Supreme Court, NGO, Delhi
Industry

 For a clean sip

A solution to purify unsafe drinking water may soon be in your pocket

Publication Date: 
14/07/2000
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Green Products, Water Technology, Drinking Water, Industry, Research
Sanitation

  Health watch

Life expectancy in India will be 71 by the year 2025, says the latest World Health Report

Publication Date: 
14/06/1998
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Drinking Water, Sanitation, Population, Health Care, Aged, WHO
India

  Heartache tonight

nearly 50 per cent of Calcutta's population may risk developing cardio-vascular diseases due to high carbonate content in drinking water, says a study. A B Dasgupta, member of the West Bengal

Publication Date: 
14/06/1998
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Drinking Water, Health, Heart Diseases, India
India

 CLEAN WATER FOR NEPAL

Usha Birta Water System, a water filtration and purification system developed in Nepal jointly with a German firm was unveiled early this month in Kathmandu. Golcha Industrial Group, a

Publication Date: 
14/03/1998
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Drinking Water, Industry, Nepal
Health

 Cleaning the lifeline

The toll of diseases across the world could be reduced to a great extent by using safe water, hygienic latrines and by washing hands before handling food. Staying healthy is, therefore, easier for

Publication Date: 
Wednesday, October 30, 1996
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Drinking Water, Health, Statistics
India

 Purified, yet sullied?

with water-borne diseases on the rise, more and more people have been buying commercial domestic water purifier ( cdwp ) systems. However, a recent study indicates that these filters, instead

Publication Date: 
30/10/1996
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Drinking Water, Health, India
India

 Depressing data

The achievements of Habitat I have been limited. This was so because of the economic crisis of the '805. According to official statistics, at least 280 million urban and more than 800 million rural

Publication Date: 
14/01/1996
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Drinking Water, Sanitation, India

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