India

 Catching water

the groundwater level in Gurgaon has gone down to an alarming level of 92 metres, informs the Society for Urban Regeneration of Gurgaon ( surge ), a group of citizen's forum. In a recent

Publication Date: 
14/05/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Groundwater, Water Harvesting, Haryana, Gurgaon (D)
Industry

 WATER SCARCITY

Ground water levels in Kathmandu , Nepal's capital , are falling because of increasing industrialisation and urbanisation.This was stated in the State of Environment Nepal 2001report , which has been

Publication Date: 
14/05/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Resources, Groundwater, Water Demand, Drinking Water, Urbanisation, Industry, NGO, Kathmandu
Biodiversity

 Rock of great hope

Local rock formations help Mexicans to remove arsenic from water

Publication Date: 
29/04/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Groundwater, Water Distribution, Arsenic, Arsenic Poisoning, Environmental Science, WHO, Mexico
Water Resources

 Water from waste

With water scarcity gripping many parts of the country, people are talking about rainwater harvesting, but none about wastewater, which can also be recycled to boost our fast depleting water resources

Publication Date: 
29/04/2001
Down to Earth
9
20010430
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Tags:
River Pollution, Agriculture, Water Resources, Lakes, Groundwater, Water Demand, Drinking Water, Development, Waste Treatment, Industry, Namibia, South Africa, India, Delhi
Dams/ Irrigation

Tanks of South India

This book analyses the variations between and within tanks - in the distribution of water to different segments of the command and in productivity.

Publication Date: 
Dec 2000
A. Vaidyanathan
Centre for Science and Environment
Tags:
Periyar, Tanks, Groundwater, Water Management, Water Distribution, Water Harvesting, Water Demand, Tank Irrigation, India, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu
India

 Groundwater tested

Last year Down To Earth got a few groundwater samples from Panipat tested by the Facility for Analytical and Ecological Testing ( feat ), at the Indian Institute of Technology ( iit ), Kanpur. The

Publication Date: 
14/09/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Groundwater
Industry

 Treating effluents

the Haryana government is planning to use around 300 million gallons per

Publication Date: 
14/09/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Groundwater, Water Conservation, Irrigation, Waste Treatment, Haryana, Waste Recycling
Wildlife

 GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION

The Madras High Court has ordered the Central Ground Water Board to conduct a scientific study on the groundwater in Erode area of Tamil Nadu within two months. It has also directed the Tamil

Publication Date: 
30/07/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Oil Pollution, Groundwater, Water Quality, Environment Court, Chennai (D), Erode
India

 Irrigation policy

an environmental policy has been chalked out for Haryana state irrigation department. The main objective of this policy is to create environmental awareness among the officials of the irrigation

Publication Date: 
30/07/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Groundwater, Water Management, Water Conservation, Irrigation, Haryana
Water Resources

Global water resources: Vulnerability from climate change and population growth

The future adequacy of freshwater resources is difficult to assess, owing to a complex and rapidly changing geography of water supply and use. Numerical experiments combining climate model outputs, water budgets, and socioeconomic information along digitized river networks demonstrate that (i) a large proportion of the world's population is currently experiencing water stress and (ii) rising water demands greatly outweigh greenhouse warming in defining the state of global water systems to 2025.

Publication Date: 
14/07/2000
Charles J. Vörösmarty, Pamela Green, Joseph Salisbury & et al
Science
289
5477
284-288
Tags:
Groundwater, Climate Change, Population Trends, Water Demand, Rivers, Water Pollution, Developing Countries, Waterborne diseases, Water Supply

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