Water Quality

More shocks

The Gujarat government turns a blind eye to the quake ravaged water storage facilities. More bad news for a state facing its second drought

Publication Date:

29/06/2001

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Groundwater, Water Conservation, Water Harvesting, Water Demand, Water Quality, Drinking Water, Irrigation, NGO, Gujarat

India

Contradictory claims

the quality of Delhi's drinking water has become a controversial issue with officials of different government agencies making varied claims. The Delhi government, the Municipal Corporation of

Publication Date:

29/06/2001

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Water Quality, Drinking Water, India, Delhi

India

Sponsoring a scarcity

The Delhi Jal Board makes every effort to aggravate the water shortage in Delhi

Publication Date:

14/06/2001

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Water Harvesting, Water Demand, Water Quality, High Court, NGO, CSE, Delhi

Industry

UNJUSTIFIED LAW

The European Commission (EC) will file a lawsuit against Germany in the European Court of Justice in a bid to get a German law amended. The German packaging regulation 1998, EC claims, is

Publication Date:

29/04/2001

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Water Quality, Drinking Water, Legislation

Environment

Urban rain water harvesting

The Japanese capital Tokyo receives 1,400 mm of rain in a year. But concrete prevents it from percolating into the ground. Urban flooding and acute water scarcity affected the people almost every

Publication Date:

14/04/2001

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

9

Issue:

20010415

pp:

0

Tags:

Pollution Control, Water Conservation, Water Harvesting, Water Quality, Drinking Water, Research, Kenya, Japan, Nepal, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Germany, Rainfall

Environment

Voices from Making Water Everybody s Business <br> Talking about water

Water is bound to dominate the agenda of the country s politicians and planners in the future Though ignored for years by the political leadership and mismanaged by a myopic bureaucracy, there is still hope.

Publication Date:

14/04/2001

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

9

Issue:

20010415

pp:

0

Tags:

Pollution Control, Water Conservation, Water Harvesting, Water Quality, Drinking Water, Research, Kenya, Japan, Nepal, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Germany, Rainfall

India

Three countries in South East Asia

Three countries in Southeast Asia -- Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines-- have made efforts to provide drinking water by capturing rain. In Thailand, the absence of foreign assistance for

Publication Date:

14/04/2001

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

9

Issue:

20010415

pp:

0

Tags:

Pollution Control, Water Conservation, Water Harvesting, Water Quality, Drinking Water, Research, Kenya, Japan, Nepal, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Germany, Rainfall

Water Resources

Water: Charting a course for the future I

Water has suddenly become a favoured subject for seminars and conferences all over the world.

Publication Date:

31/03/2001

Author(s): Ramaswamy R Iyer

Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Vol:

36

Issue:

13

pp:

1115

Tags:

Water Resources, India, Drought Prone Areas, Cost Benefit Analysis, Irrigation, Watershed Development, Dams, Displacement, Rehabilitation, Water Quality, Floods

India

SAVING THE RIVER

The federal district court in Portland, Oregon, has ruled that the US government's operation of four dams on the lower Snake River violates the Clean Water Act. The court ordered the US Army Corps of

Publication Date:

30/03/2001

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Fish, Water Quality, Dams, Riverine Ecology, Endangered Species, Legislation, United States Of America (US)

Water Pollution