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 Hide industry's green tan

A technology mission for the leather industry has been set up to stop the West's green consumerists from seeing red. The mission, with an allocation of Rs 20 crores, came into operation from January

Publication Date: 
14/02/1995
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Pollution, Leather Industry, India
Water Pollution

 Drinking problems

FOUR related phenomena threaten to increase the water crisis in the 21st century: a natural upper limit to the availability of fresh water; increasing population; pollution; and delay in completing

Publication Date: 
30/01/1995
Pranab Mukhopadhyaya
Down to Earth
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Water Pollution, Water Management, Water Conservation
Water Pollution

 PAKISTAN AIDS

Friday namaz congregations in Pakistan may never be the same again. Alarmed by the rising incidence of AIDS, plans are afoot to have religious leaders deliver sermons on the disease. The government

Publication Date: 
30/01/1995
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Pollution, Air Pollution, Pakistan, Karachi, Toxic Wastes
Air Pollution

 Arab world faces eco crisis

A World Bank environmental strategy plan warns that the Middle East and North Africa are heading for an environmental disaster. The report says that a quarter of the Arab World has no access to safe

Publication Date: 
14/01/1995
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Pollution, Air Pollution, World Bank
Water Pollution

 Coral reefs in decline

Coral reefs, one of the world's most biologically diverse ecosystems, are in a steady state of decline around the world. A study by the World Conservation Union and the United Nations

Publication Date: 
Tuesday, November 29, 1994
Down to Earth
Tags:
Corals, Endangered Species, Statistics
Water Pollution

 Fewer drops to drink

Water consumption the world over is growing - it is likely to grow by five times between 1940 and 2000. This, coupled with the pollution of existing water resources is causing water scarcity in more

Publication Date: 
Monday, November 14, 1994
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Pollution, Water Demand, Statistics
Water Supply

Urban water supply in Rajasthan - Problems and prospects

The growing problems in providing adequate drinking water to urban populations is a consequence of the lack of long-term planning and inefficient management of urban water usage.

Publication Date: 
27/08/1994
M S Rathore, V Ratna Reddy, S Ramanathan
Economic and Political Weekly
2272-2274
Tags:
Urban Water Supply, Rajasthan, Jaipur (T), Bharatpur (T), Udaipur (T), Ajmer (T), Jodhpur (T), Water Demand, Water Distribution, Urban Water Harvesting, Traditional Knowledge, Water Management, Water Conservation, Water Pollution
India

 Final diagnosis

Scientists have developed a product that will go a long way in helping standardise measurements of water pollution

Publication Date: 
14/07/1994
Devendra Chauhan
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Pollution, India, Delhi
Water Pollution

 The NGO problem

THE RECENT controversy over the national and global role of non-government organisations (NGOs), generated at the preparatory meeting for the United Nations-sponsored International Conference on

Publication Date: 
14/05/1994
Down to Earth
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Development, Panchayats, NGO
Water Pollution

 Green power

IT HAS taken decades of singleminded toil for the world's leading green organisations to move centripetally from what was considered the lunatic fringe to a position of such popular power and

Publication Date: 
30/04/1994
Down to Earth
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Water Pollution, Air Pollution, NGO, Toxic Wastes

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