Water Pollution

 Destroying waterbodies

a move to solve one problem, is creating another one for the Andhra Pradesh government. The Supreme Court had ordered the state governments to dispose off effluents without contaminating any

Publication Date: 
29/04/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Pollution, River Pollution, Musi, Supreme Court, Andhra Pradesh, Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP)
Water Resources

 Water from waste

With water scarcity gripping many parts of the country, people are talking about rainwater harvesting, but none about wastewater, which can also be recycled to boost our fast depleting water resources

Publication Date: 
29/04/2001
Down to Earth
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Tags:
River Pollution, Agriculture, Water Resources, Lakes, Groundwater, Water Demand, Drinking Water, Development, Waste Treatment, Industry, Namibia, South Africa, India, Delhi
Air Pollution

 Pesticide in fish

ddt (dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane) content in fish stocks from Ganga is 16,000 times more than the permissible limit. This was revealed during a

Publication Date: 
14/04/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
River Pollution, Ganga, Health Effects, Fish Poisoning, DDT, Pesticide Residues
Air Pollution

 Sudden death

A mystery disease kills 35 people in Siliguri

Publication Date: 
30/03/2001
Jayanta Basu
Down to Earth
Tags:
River Pollution, Waste Disposal, Health Care, Vector Borne Diseases, Environmental Health, West Bengal, Siliguri, Diseases
Environment

 Sullied effort

A CAG report castigates the government for its poor implementation of the Ganga Action Plan

Publication Date: 
30/01/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Pollution Control, River Pollution, Ganga, Governance, Government Of India (GOI), Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF)
Air Pollution

 Gaps in GAP

• The apex body headed by the prime minister to monitor the plan

Publication Date: 
30/01/2001
S S Jeevan
Down to Earth
Tags:
River Pollution
Environment

Survival primer: Down to Earth special issue

This publication contains prominent articles collated from 200 issues of science and environment fortnightly, Down to Earth, from 1992 onwards.

Publication Date: 
Dec 2000
Anil Agarwal
Centre for Science and Environment
Tags:
Environment, Environment Economics, River Pollution, Air Pollution, Forests, Traditional Water Harvesting, Global Environmental Agreements, Protected Area Conservation, Environment Education, Popular Movements, Biomass
India

 What it takes to clean a river

It is the tale of two European rivers. The Rhine and the Danube. No river system in the world has a density of industrial agglomerations comparable to that of the Rhine. The river connects the economies of some of the richest countries, while the Danube l

Publication Date: 
30/12/2000
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Pollution Control, River Pollution, Danube, Rhine, Riverine Ecology, Waste Disposal, Industrial Disasters, International Cooperation, Public Participation, Europe, Sustainable Development
India

 The Blue Danube

An international convention for protection of the Danube hopes to restore the river s ecosystem

Publication Date: 
30/12/2000
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Tags:
Pollution Control, River Pollution, Danube, Rhine, Riverine Ecology, Waste Disposal, Industrial Disasters, International Cooperation, Public Participation, Europe, Sustainable Development
Health

 The DANUBE

The second longest river in Europe, the Danube originates in Germany and drains into the Black Sea

Publication Date: 
30/12/2000
Down to Earth
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Tags:
River Pollution

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