India

 DOWN AND OUT

Much to the dismay of the owners of 5 industrial estates located in Naroda, Odhav and Narol areas in Gujarat, their writ petition, seeking permission to restart production was

Publication Date: 
30/10/1995
Down to Earth
Tags:
Industrial Pollution, Gujarat
Environment

 Blood on its hands

Industry in Asia's largest chemical unit zone is like a terrorist outfit, devastating the atmosphere and, reportedly, killing people

Publication Date: 
30/10/1995
Meera Iyer
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Pollution, Land Pollution, Industrial Pollution, Chemical Industry, Industrial Waste Treatment, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), High Court, Gujarat
Health

 Sanctuary saga

A recent investigation into the Narayan Sarovar Sanctuary lends support to the boundary reduction exercise by the state government

Publication Date: 
14/09/1995
Down to Earth
Tags:
Sanctuaries, Gujarat, Kuchchh
Industry

Handling facility of general cargo/LPG/chemicals and their storage terminal at Navinal Island, Mundra Taluk of Kutch District, Gujarat: environmental clearance (25 August 1995)

Handling facility of general cargo/LPG/chemicals and their storage terminal at Navinal Island, Mundra Taluk of Kutch District, Gujarat: environmental clearance - office memorandum (25 August 1995).

Publication Date: 
25/08/1995
Ministry of Environment and Forests
Tags:
Adani Port and SEZ Ltd, Gujarat, Environment Clearance (EC), Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF)
India

 Water out of stone

A lift irrigation system helps tribals in Gujarat fight the tyranny of the seasons

Publication Date: 
30/07/1995
Rakesh Agarwal
Down to Earth
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Irrigation, Watershed Development, India, Gujarat
India

 Out of the depths

Women water users are determined to have their say in water management policymaking

Publication Date: 
14/07/1995
Mihir R Bhatt
Down to Earth
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Water Management, Women, India, Gujarat
India

 The last of the Pyaakas

A lonely wind moans eerily through empty houses and deserted streets, rattling a broken window here, a halfhinged door there: 350 people once lived here. Today, 35 km from Mandvi, Pyaaka is a ghost

Publication Date: 
30/05/1995
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Groundwater, Water Harvesting, India, Gujarat
India

 Water in the sand

Experiments in rainwater harvesting are recharging parched aquifers in Kutch

Publication Date: 
30/05/1995
Meera Iyer
Down to Earth
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Groundwater, Water Harvesting, India, Gujarat
India

 Plaguing the question

The plague mystery still foxes the high level technical advisory committee constituted by the Centre. In its 7 page interim report, the committee headed by V Ramalingaswamy, former director general

Publication Date: 
14/03/1995
Down to Earth
Tags:
Infectious Diseases, Plague, Gujarat
Wildlife

 Problems behind the pugmarks

Translocating some lions from Gujarat's Gir sanctuary the home of the endangered Asiatic lion to the Kuno wildlife sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh to save the big cat could mean people trouble. The forest dwellers in both areas sense that their lives wi

Publication Date: 
27/02/1995
Rimjhim Jain
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Displacement, Wildlife, Lion, Gir NP, Cement Industry, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh

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