Industry

 Excreta's economy: a true experience

Every society must understand how the excreta it produces is managed. It teaches us many things about water, about waste, about technologies to clean, economics and politics: of who is subsidised to defecate in our societies. But, most importantly, it teaches us humility. We know so little about our own world.

Publication Date: 
14/02/2007
Sunita Narain
Down to Earth
15
20070215
18
Tags:
Water Pollution Control, River Pollution, Yamuna, Sewage Pollution, Sewage Treatment Plants (STP), Drainage, Urban Sanitation, India, Delhi
Fisheries

 Yellow river blues

China's second longest waterway, the Yellow river, has lost one-third of its fish species, notes a recent report of the country's agriculture ministry. Known as the cradle of early civilisation,

Publication Date: 
14/02/2007
Down to Earth
Tags:
River Pollution, Rivers, Fisheries, China
Climate Change

CMC seeks immersion ban

Publication Date: 
09/02/2007
Tags:
River Pollution
Transport

Delhiites to clean Yamuna

Publication Date: 
06/02/2007
Tags:
River Pollution
Science And Technology

Ganga clean-up SC raps Govt

Publication Date: 
06/02/2007
Tags:
River Pollution
Energy

Kiran asks Delhi to control pollution in Yamuna

Publication Date: 
05/02/2007
Tags:
River Pollution
Water Pollution

Dominance of lithogenic effect for nickel, cobalt, chromium and mercury as found in freshly deposited sediments of Subernarekha

The importance of study of heavy metal distribution in river sediments is a component in understanding the exogenic cycling as well as in assessing the effect of anthropogenic influences of the elements. In India, the river Subernarekha flows over Precambrian terrain of Singhbhum craton in the eastern India.

Publication Date: 
01/02/2007
A. K. Upadhyay, K. K. Gupta, J. K. Sircar & et al
Environmental Geology
51
8
1447
Tags:
Water Pollution, River Pollution, Rivers, Heavy Metals, India, Environmental Geology, A. K. Upadhyay, K. K. Gupta, J. K. Sircar & et al
Wildlife

Plan to control Brahmaputra demanded

Publication Date: 
01/02/2007
Tags:
River Pollution
Water Resources

 Springs of life India's water resources

Publication Date: 
14/01/2007
R K Srinivasan
Down to Earth
Tags:
River Pollution, Water Resources, Groundwater, Rural Water Supply, Urban Water Supply, Ganga Action Plan, Interstate Disputes, India
Energy

Yamuna ke pradushan ke liye refinary jimmedar

Publication Date: 
09/01/2007
Dainik Bhaskar (New Delhi)
Tags:
River Pollution

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