India

 No business drive

Research efforts on natural colours are not helping the traditional industry

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14/08/2002
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River Pollution, Animal Products, Health Effects, Textile Industry, Cancer, Trade, Traditional Knowledge, Insects, Paint And Dye Industry, Technology, India, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan
India

 A Sunrise industry

Natural dye business survives on exporters and the local carpet industry

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14/08/2002
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India

 Fading colours

Natural dyes, now popular in the West, are yet to make it big in the Indian market, reports R V Singh
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14/08/2002
R V Singh
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Environment

 Counting the cost

Is Span motel s punishment commensurate with its crime? Experts wonder

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14/04/2002
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Environment, River Pollution, Beas, Compensation, Finance, Aid, Legislation, Supreme Court, NGO, India, Himachal Pradesh, Developing Countries, European Union (EU)
India

 Monitoring Ganga on Net

a website www.cleanganga.com has been launched, which could go a long way in improving the water quality of the river. The site is hosted by Sankat Mochan Foundation (smf) members and clean-up

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14/03/2002
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Water Pollution, Water Pollution Control, River Pollution, Ganga, Water Quality, India
India

 Polluted Yangtze

The Yangtze River of China is becoming increasingly polluted, according to a report of the Yangtze River Water Resources Authority. In 2001, sewage and industrial waste dumping increased by 11 per

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27/02/2002
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River Pollution, Industrial Dispersal, Water Quality, Waste Disposal, China
Water Pollution

 Rivers e effect

The Andhra Pradesh government is all set to purify Musi river, which has been given top priority under the National River Conservation plan, by dumping effluents

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27/02/2002
Kushal P S Yadav
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Pollution Control, Water Pollution, River Pollution, Industrial Dispersal, Musi, Arsenic, Waste Disposal, Legislation, Supreme Court, Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad (D)
India

 Drowning In Human Excreta

Sanitation for urban India means building flush toilets and linking them to sewer systems. But the price of chasing this dream is leading to an environmental catastrophe. MANOJ NADKARNI analyses our flush and forget mindset

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27/02/2002
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Water Pollution, River Pollution, Water Demand, Urban Water Supply, Sanitation, Scavengers, Lowcost Toilets, Waste Disposal, Waste Treatment, Technology, Research, India, Delhi, Statistics, Waste Recycling
India

 New Age Approach

We need to go back to the drawing board to reinvent a green toilet. If necessary, to go back to our past and find technological innovations that are sustainable and equitable. So that every Indian can have access to sanitation and still have clean water t

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27/02/2002
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India

 Ecologically mindless

The flush toilet system and the sewage system, which goes with modern day personal hygiene and cleanliness, are part of the environmental problem and not the solution. Consider the huge amount of clean water that is used to carry a small quantity of human

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27/02/2002
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