Tap water norms on the anvil

Protect forests, get clean water

India plans to develop its water resources by interlinking its Himalayan rivers with those in the peninsular region through 30 interlinking canal systems. Already, the project has raised controversy and debate. Interlinking rivers is now a matter of South

Mumbai s water too dirty to drink

This report contains the proceedings of the fourth national workshop on environment statistics held on 22-23 April 2003 at Shillong. The workshop focused on harmonization of the framework for environmental accounting in India based on the system of integrated environment and economic accounting and identification of data requirement for environmental management.

On April 1 this year the revised norms for bottled water should have come into force, but didn t. By missing the deadline which ironically coincided with All Fool s Day the Union government may have played a practical joke on millions of people consum

yet another case of contamination of water has surfaced. The southwestern regional office of the Central Ground Water Board (cgwb) recently released a report of the water quality study conducted in

The CSE’s recent exposé has blown the lid off the bottled water industry’s tall claims on the purity of its products. Simultaneously, it has brought to the surface a much larger problem: contamination of groundwater by pesticides

February 09, 2003: bis says it will effect changes in packaged drinking water norms and follow European standards. Department of science and technology scientists confirm findings of the Centre

In a study similar to the one conducted by the Centre for Science and Environment (cse) in Delhi and Mumbai, a research body in Bangladesh has uncorked unpleasant facts about bottled water. While

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