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

Publication Date: 
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

 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

Publication Date: 
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
Industry

 Safe disposal

with a ban on landfilling of combustible wastes, the Swedish municipalities are giving an impetus to biological processing of household waste. As a result, the capacity of such processing is

Publication Date: 
14/02/2002
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Waste Disposal, Waste Incineration, Waste Treatment, Legislation, Sweden
Water Pollution

 Tourist revulsion

Steeped in pollution, Ranchi lake is no more a crowd puller

Publication Date: 
14/02/2002
Arun Srivastava
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Pollution, Water Pollution, Water Pollution Control, Lake Pollution, Waste Disposal, Tourism, Legislation, India, Ranchi (D)
India

 Truth or dare

By publicly disclosing the environmental status report and commissioning an ngo for its preparation, Pune Municipal Corporation has grabbed double honours

Publication Date: 
30/01/2002
Binayak Das
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Environment, Air Pollution, Water Harvesting, Slums, Waste Disposal, Environment Education, NGO, India, Maharashtra, Pune (D), Water Pollution
India

 DISPOSAL DILEMMA

No breakthrough has been made in the dialogue between Bhutan's ministry of agriculture and the Indian authorities regarding the safe disposal of about 33 metric tonnes of hazardous chemical waste

Publication Date: 
14/12/2001
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Waste Disposal, Waste Incineration, Hazardous Products, Bhutan, India, Toxic Wastes
India

 Driven for and by the people

GRP has emerged as a truly democratic indicator of the direction in which corporate environmental governance is headed

Publication Date: 
29/11/2001
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Pollution Control, Health Effects, Paper and Pulp Industry, Emissions Trading, Automobiles, Waste Disposal, DDT, Hazardous Products, Public Participation, NGO, Awards, India, Developing Countries, Toxic Wastes
India

 Declared dead

Karnataka hospitals face closure for not treating waste

Publication Date: 
29/09/2001
Down to Earth
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Hospital Waste, Waste Disposal, Waste Treatment, Legislation, India, Karnataka
India

 Holy mess

The Supreme Court pulls up the Orissa government for pollution in Puri

Publication Date: 
29/09/2001
Satyasundar Barik
Down to Earth
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Pollution, Sanitation, Waste Disposal, Waste Treatment, Legislation, Supreme Court, India, Orissa (Odisha), Puri (D)
India

 LAGOS

Amid environmental concerns, the Lagos government is planning to ban the sale of mineral water packed in cellophane paper. "Sachets carelessly thrown away are blocking drainage channels designed to

Publication Date: 
30/08/2001
Down to Earth
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Drainage, Waste Disposal, Information

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