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 The fruits of water

Orchards in Vansda transform distant dream into reality as people unite to store and use the water that would usually run off

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14/07/1994
S Rajendran
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Watershed Development, Community Groups, NGO, India, Gujarat
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 'It is difficult to sustain a one point literacy programme'

What is the origin of the Pondicherry Science Forum? Inspired by the experiences of the Kerala Shastra Sahitya Parishat, we set up PSF in December 1985 for the popularisation of science. We

Publication Date: 
14/07/1994
Rustam Vania
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Education, India
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 Watery wisdom

Since the '70s, the Israelis have enjoyed international recognition for using well-managed modern technologies to get the Negev desert and other arid parts of their young country to bloom. Perhaps

Publication Date: 
14/07/1994
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Water Resources, India, Rajasthan
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 Cleaning up the coastline

The hue and cry raised by environmentalists about the Puri beach, castigated by the Central Pollution Control Board as one of the most polluted in India, has finally forced the Orissa government to

Publication Date: 
14/07/1994
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Waste Treatment, India, Orissa (Odisha)
India

 'We have to make population growth compatible with development'

DEVELOPING countries have accepted the inarguable importance of the link between population and economic and social development and natural resources, says NAFIS SADIK, secretary general of the International Conference on Population and Development, 1994,

Publication Date: 
29/06/1994
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Development, Population, Developing Countries
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 Await the Indian Love Canal

WHEN will we see sincere efforts to introduce discipline in the disposal of industrial waste in India? If the official interventions in environmental management in India so far are any indication,

Publication Date: 
29/06/1994
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Industrial Dispersal, Government Of India (GOI), Toxic Wastes
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 Counting out pestilence

The patterns that diseases furrow among large sections of a population provide clues to check epidemics

Publication Date: 
29/06/1994
Seema Kalra
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Epidemics, Occupational Health, India
India

 An earful of high decibels

As the rumble of traffic in the Capital gets louder, experts come up with various ways to clear the clatter

Publication Date: 
29/06/1994
Rimjhim Jain
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Noise Pollution, India, Delhi
India

 Pregnant with meaning

FAR from the media hoopla, the developing world is quietly undergoing a reproductive revolution. According to a report released by the World Fertility Survey 1992, birth rates in the developing world have gone down by 1/3rd since the mid 60's. One remarka

Publication Date: 
Wednesday, June 29, 1994
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Population, Developing Countries, Statistics
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 GUJARAT: Turning a blind eye</b>

Industrial estates are proliferating in Gujarat and state pollution control officials admit that waste disposal has not been a priority consideration for any of them. The Ahmedabad-Vadodara-Surat

Publication Date: 
29/06/1994
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