Water Resources

SOS for H2O: Will pricing save it?

HEARD of Plachimada? Over the last two-and-a-half years, people in this Kerala village have been agitating to get a neighbouring Coke plant shut down. According to them, Coke's water mining has parched the lands of over 2,000 people.

Publication Date: 
13/09/2004
M. Rajshekhar
Business World (Kolkata)
Tags:
Coca Cola, Groundwater, Water Conservation, Water Harvesting, Ministry Of Water Resources, CSE, Kerala
Air Pollution

 Still under fire

Will the CBI report oppose tribals in the Muthunga case?

Publication Date: 
30/08/2004
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Forest Resources, Tribals, Kerala
Water Resources

 Water supply is all

What about the sewage that makes Kovalam beach stink?

Publication Date: 
30/08/2004
R K Srinivasan
Down to Earth
Tags:
River Pollution, Water Resources, Sewage, Waste Disposal, India, Kerala
India

 Tribal travails

Continue in Kerala over land

Publication Date: 
30/07/2004
Surendranath C
Down to Earth
Tags:
Land Ownership, Land Reforms, Tribals, Kerala
Air Pollution

 Productive innovation

Women groups use water hyacinth to make useful products

Publication Date: 
14/07/2004
Down to Earth
Tags:
Kerala
Water Resources

 Out of place

Hydel project bang next to Kerala s evergreen forest

Publication Date: 
14/07/2004
Sridevi Mohan
Down to Earth
Tags:
Hydroelectricity, National Parks, Governance, Kerala, Palakkad (D)
Industry

 Weeding out a menace

Kerala plans to use water hyacinth to manufacture an important industrial enzyme

Publication Date: 
14/07/2004
T V Jayan
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Resources, Biomass, Industry, Research, Kerala
Water Resources

 Hot spots

Global warming will lead to water scarcity in Asia

Publication Date: 
14/07/2004
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Resources, Glaciers, Rivers, Global Warming, Research, Asia, Kerala
Industry

 Water riddles

I travelled in Kerala last fortnight, seeking answers. I wanted to know what government was doing to meet the drinking water needs of people in this wet drought state. Searching in villages and

Publication Date: 
14/07/2004
Sunita Narain
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Water Resources, Wells, Drinking Water, Rural Water Supply, Sanitation, Governance, Kerala
Environment

Threat to a valley's silence

Silent Valley, one of the few remaining tracts of undisturbed tropical evergreen forests in India, is once again testing the resolve of environmentalists and the never-say-die dam builders of Keral

Publication Date: 
02/07/2004
R. Krishnakumar
Frontline (Chennai)
Tags:
Kerala, Silent Valley NP, National Parks, Palakkad (D), Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Public Hearing, Silent Valley HP, Hydroelectricity, Malappuram (D)

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