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Sanitation

 The ground for grassroots technology

A Delhi based agency has improved the standard of living of a Himachal Pradesh village by providing it simple devices at subsidised rates

Publication Date: 
27/02/1995
Rakesh Agarwal
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Sanitation, Biogas, Rural Development, NGO, Himachal Pradesh
Water Resources

 Only ripples

The latest international meet on water nearly drowned in platitudes

Publication Date: 
30/04/1994
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Resources, Sanitation, Netherlands
India

 Ways of lfie in rural and urban India

Living conditions remain abysmally poor in India, with a big difference between urban and rural areas. Nearly three-quarters of urban households lived in pucca houses, compared to only about a

Publication Date: 
Friday, January 14, 1994
Down to Earth
Tags:
Lifestyles, Biomass, Sanitation, Household Energy, India, Statistics
India

 Upholding the right to hygiene

The citizens of Ratlam in Madhya Pradesh continue to put up with a filthy, malodorous town despite a landmark Supreme Court ruling 13 years ago, which held it mandatory for municipalities to provide sanitation facilities.

Publication Date: 
30/10/1993
Shailendra Kumar & Amit Mitra
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Sanitation, Waste Disposal, Industry, India
India

 A long road ahead

Despite its vast numbers of scientists and research institutes, Indian science has always fared poorly on the global front. Several reasons have been put forward for the dismal performance, but the only fact that emerges is that there can be no consensus

Publication Date: 
30/08/1993
Down to Earth
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Food Supply, Development, Health, Sanitation, Technology, Scientists, India
Sanitation

 French fries prompt battle with McDonald's

Israeli farmers resent fast food giant McDonald's intention to import the cheaper frozen French fries

Publication Date: 
14/08/1993
Down to Earth
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Irrigation, Farmers, Imports, Israel, France
Sanitation

 Integration travails

AS MANY as 2,000 scientists from former East Germany, who found themselves jobless after the country's behemoth research system was pruned, are now being denied promised university positions, as the

Publication Date: 
30/07/1993
Down to Earth
Tags:
Services, Scientists, Germany
Environment

 'Environment ministers have a hard time'

Union environment minister Kamal Nath talks to Down To Earth about India's environment strategy and the attitude of Western nations towards environmental problems.

Publication Date: 
30/07/1993
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Environment, Sanitation, Global, Sustainable Development, Drinking Water
Environment

 The world in his pocket

Kamal Nath is one of the few Indian ministers to have acquired an international image. He has traversed the globe to attend various environmental conferences and has also played host to several of his foreign counterparts. Nath argues the new found green

Publication Date: 
30/07/1993
Anumita Roychowdhury, Nitya Jacob, Ravi Sharma, Anupam Goswami
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Environment, Sanitation, Global, Sustainable Development, Drinking Water
Sanitation

 Opposed to power

NEPALI environmentalists are opposing the Arun III hydro-electric power project in east Nepal on the grounds that there are "more practical, cost-effective and environmentally sound" alternatives,

Publication Date: 
14/07/1993
Down to Earth
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Hydroelectricity, Technical Cooperation, Nepal

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