Kerala

Pesticide use in the rice bowl of Kerala: health costs and policy options

This report examines pesticide use in Kuttanad, India, an economically sensitive area often referred to as the rice bowl of Kerala. Using primary data collected from pesticide applicators and farm labor, the report assesses short-term health costs associated with pesticide exposure.

Publication Date:

01/02/2007

Author(s): P. Indira Devi

Source: SANDEE

Tags:

Pesticides, Rice, Health Effects, Pesticides And Toxins, Pesticide Use, Pesticide Residues, India, Kerala

India

Tamil Nadu and Kerala slug it out over Mullaperiyar dam

THE longstanding controversy over the Mullaperiyar dam on the river Periyar assumed bitter proportions in December 2006 with the Kerala government accusing its Tamil Nadu counterpart of pulling out

Publication Date:

30/01/2007

Author(s): S V Suresh Babu

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Periyar, Water Distribution, Water Demand, Dams, Dam Safety, Reservoirs, Irrigation, Conflicts, Interstate Disputes, Supreme Court, High Court, Government Of India (GOI), India, Kerala, Idukki, Tamil Nadu

India

Mullaperiyar imbroglio Rivers plight politicians delight

inter-state water conflicts have become the stock-in-trade of Indian politics. They are easy matter for politicians and technocrats to milk. The disputes most often end up in the Supreme Court with

Publication Date:

30/01/2007

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

15

Issue:

20070131

pp:

0

Tags:

Water Distribution, Water Demand, Dams, Dam Safety, Reservoirs, Interstate Disputes, Supreme Court, Political Parties, Politics, India, Kerala, Idukki, Tamil Nadu

Pesticides And Toxins

Legal implications of Plachimada: a case study

The first part of the paper briefly describes the geography and the socio-economic background of Plachimada. The second part analyses the legal and institutional framework applicable to the case. This part also examines how the government approached the case, which has already been presented before the Kerala High Court. The third part is an analysis of the case law.

Publication Date:

01/01/2007

Author(s): Sujith Koonan

Source: International Environmental Law Research Centre

Tags:

Pollution Control, Water Pollution, Soft Drinks Industry, Coca Cola, Groundwater, Health Effects, Supreme Court, High Court, Kerala, Palakkad (D)

Natural Disasters

Ground Zero

It is the saga of callous and pathetic implementation of relief I work and rehabilitation of the tsunami-affected. The tsunami I that hit the Indian coastline on the morning of December 26, 12004, swept away 1,089 villages, claimed over 10,273 lives I and rendered 2,39,024 families homeless. By all accounts, it was the biggest natural calamity to hit India.

Publication Date:

01/01/2007

Author(s): Shankkar Aiyar

Source: India Today (New Delhi)

Tags:

Andaman Islands, Nicobar Islands, Tsunami, Housing Construction, Rehabilitation, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Tamil Nadu

Water Pollution

Physico-chemical features of Veli lake southwest coast, India

The Veli lake is the smallest among the backwaters of Kerala. The partially treated sewage and the completely untreated industrial effluents are the main sources that brought undesirable changes in the lake. For the present study three stations were fixed in the lake to test the physicochemical features (April 2000-March 2001). 2007

Publication Date:

01/01/2007

Author(s): B. Leena Grace

Source: Journal of Industrial Pollution Control

Vol:

23

Issue:

2

pp:

307

Tags:

Lake Pollution, Lakes, Waste Disposal, India, Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram (D)

Industry

Studies on the distillery effluent characteristics & its impact on Vembanad lake in the industrial area of Varanadu in Alappuzha

The present study was conducted to analyse the physico-chemical characteristics of effluent discharged from the distillery unit of McDowell and Company situated in Varanadu at Cherthala Taluk, Alappuzha district in Kerala state. (2007)

Publication Date:

01/01/2007

Author(s): D.S. Jaya, K. Lekshmi

Source: Journal of Industrial Pollution Control

Vol:

23

Issue:

2

pp:

271

Tags:

Lake Pollution, Vembanad, Industrial Pollution, Waste Disposal, India, Kerala, Alappuzha (D)

Biodiversity

Access and benefit sharing from the indigenous people's perspective: The TBGRI-Kani 'model'

The right to permanent sovereignty of indigenous peoples over natural resources is implicit in international law particularly in the right of ownership of the lands they historically or traditionally

Publication Date:

01/01/2007

Author(s): C. R. Bijoy

Source: Law Environment And Development Journal

Vol:

3

Issue:

1

pp:

1

Tags:

Western Ghats, Tribals, Tribal Medicine, Traditional Knowledge, Medicinal Plants, Biodiversity Conservation, Benefit Sharing, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), India, Kerala

Pesticides And Toxins

Pesticide use in the rice bowl of Kerala: health costs and policy options

This study examines pesticide use in Kuttanad, India an ecologically sensitive area often referred to as the rice bowl of Kerala. Using primary data collected from pesticide applicators and farm labor, the study assesses short-term health costs associated with pesticide exposure.

Publication Date:

Dec 2006

Author(s): P. Indira Devi

Source: SANDEE

Tags:

Pesticides, Rice, Health Effects, Pesticides And Toxins, Pesticide Use, Kerala

Environment