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Water Pollution

Farewell to the Bagmati civilisation: Losing riverscape and nation in Kathmandu

The Kathmandu reaches of the Bagmati River are widely characterised as severely degraded. This article explores the rhetorical life and death of the concept of a 'Bagmati civilisation': a particular configuration of history, cultural identity and river ecology espoused by a prominent Nepali river restorationist.

Publication Date: 
01/06/2007
Anne Rademacher
National Identities
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Kathmandu, Bagmati, Rivers, South Asia, Nepal, Habitat And Urbanisation, History, Riverine Ecology, River Pollution, River Action Plan, Water Pollution
Water Pollution

An appraisal of groundwater quality of Alwar town in Rajasthan

The physico-chemical quality study of the underground water in Alwar town of Rajasthan has been taken up to evaluate its suitability for domestic purpose. 56 ground water samples were collected from different places of Alwar town.

Publication Date: 
31/05/2007
Ranjana Agrawal, U. D. Tripathi, A. K. Varshney
Himalayan Journal of Environment and Zoology
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Alwar (T), Groundwater Quality, Rajasthan, Water Pollution
Water Pollution

 Scotland's Seafield STP starts functioning after spill

Scotland's biggest sewage treatment facility, Seafield, is back in working condition after causing a major sewage spill in the last week of April. The spill contaminated the estuary, Firth of Forth,

Publication Date: 
30/05/2007
Down to Earth
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Water Pollution, Marine Pollution, United Kingdom (UK)
Water Pollution

 Locals in Rajasthan's Kota district stop building of incineration plant

Construction work was stopped at a biomedical waste incineration facility in Rajasthan's Kota district following opposition from local people. Construction of the plant started in March 2007 without

Publication Date: 
30/05/2007
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Pollution, Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Hospital Waste, Waste Incineration, Conflicts, India, Rajasthan, Kota (D)
Water Pollution

 CETP employee in Gujarat sacked for exposing illegal discharge channels

Vishnubhai Patel was an operator-cum-fitter with Green Environment Services Co-operative Society Ltd. He claims he was sacked in August 2006, a little over a year after exposing the society's

Publication Date: 
14/05/2007
Bharat Lal Seth
Down to Earth
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Water Pollution, River Pollution, Sabarmati, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Waste Disposal, Waste Treatment, India, Gujarat, Ahmedabad (D), Statistics, Corruption, Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP)
Environment

Burying the truth

For 40 years the story of Brofiscin Quarry

Publication Date: 
01/05/2007
Jon Hughes, Pat Thomas
Ecologist
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Environment, Land Pollution, Mining, Industrial Pollution, Chemical Industry, PCBs, Mining Waste, United Kingdom (UK), Toxic Wastes, Monsanto, Water Pollution
Water Pollution

 Zimbabwe to cull elephants to check their growth

Zimbabwe has announced plans for culling and contraception to slow down rampant elephant population growth. The announcement comes close to a recent incident in which a rogue elephant trampled to

Publication Date: 
29/04/2007
Down to Earth
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Elephant, National Parks, Africa, Zimbabwe
Industry

 What China is doing to Goa

I wrote last fortnight about how mining in Goa for iron ore was ripping its forests and devastating its people. I wrote of the violence and protests I saw in its villages, where miners were pitted against people angry at the loss of their cultivable lands and their water bodies. I had asked then

Publication Date: 
29/04/2007
Sunita Narain
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Pollution, Water Pollution, Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Land Resources, Land Pollution, Mining, Mineral-Based Industry, Iron And Steel Industry, Iron, Naga, Conflicts, Panchayats, China, India, Goa, Corruption
Mining

 Making India's mining sector socially and environmentally viable

While mining continues to exploit mineral-rich areas and impoverish their people, a government panel ignores these costs to focus on fast-tracking private investment in the sector.
By Chandra Bhushan

Publication Date: 
29/04/2007
Chandra Bhushan
Down to Earth
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20070430
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Water Pollution, River Pollution, Land Pollution, Mining, Mineral-Based Industry, Stone Industry, Minerals, Brahmani, Water Quality, Health Effects, Poverty, Orissa (Odisha)
Water Pollution

 In short

>> At 2 am on March 11, 2007 (0700 GMT), the US pushed forward the hands on its clocks by an hour. The shift came three weeks earlier than usual. Normally US clocks "spring forward' on the first

Publication Date: 
14/04/2007
Down to Earth
Tags:
Animal Diseases, Poultry, Energy Policy, Influenza, Afghanistan, United States Of America (US)

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