Water Resources

Water Resources

Violent homecoming

10,000 families from Delhi s Yamuna Pushta slums were resettled in Bawana this March. NIDHI JAMWAL went to meet them

Publication Date:

30/07/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Water Resources, Slums, Sanitation, Waste Disposal, Rehabilitation, Planning, Delhi

Water Resources

Tourist hordes damage Mediterranean freshwater, says WWF

Tourism is damaging freshwater in the Mediterranean basin and growing demand from water-guzzling golf courses, hotels, and aquaparks will further strain resources, environmental group WWF warned. A

Publication Date:

16/07/2004

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Water Resources

Snippets

Taiwan-based company Hong You Technology exported 12,000 tonnes of toxic waste to Malaysia last year. The company claims to have been authorised to do so by the Malaysian as well as Taiwanese

Publication Date:

14/07/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20040715

pp:

0

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United Kingdom (UK)

Water Resources

Out of place

Hydel project bang next to Kerala s evergreen forest

Publication Date:

14/07/2004

Author(s): Sridevi Mohan

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Hydroelectricity, National Parks, Governance, Kerala, Palakkad (D)

Water Resources

Blights Mumbai too

Recent news reports from Mumbai also suggest the existence of a huge medical waste-recycling racket in the city. Private companies have been hired to collect hospital wastes in the city and transport

Publication Date:

14/07/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Agriculture

Out on their own

Government delivery programmes provide little support to farmers

Publication Date:

14/07/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20040715

pp:

0

Tags:

Agriculture, Seeds, Water Resources, Watershed Development, Farmers, Poverty, Legislation, Human Rights, Political Parties, Panchayats, India, Andhra Pradesh

Agriculture

Village Punukula s different

Managing yields without pesticides

Publication Date:

14/07/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20040715

pp:

0

Tags:

Agriculture, Seeds, Water Resources, Watershed Development, Farmers, Poverty, Legislation, Human Rights, Political Parties, Panchayats, India, Andhra Pradesh

Agriculture

Mourn

But it is better to take Andhra Pradesh as a challenge

Publication Date:

14/07/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20040715

pp:

0

Tags:

Agriculture, Seeds, Water Resources, Watershed Development, Farmers, Poverty, Legislation, Human Rights, Political Parties, Panchayats, India, Andhra Pradesh

Agriculture

A debt ridden state can offer little to its indebted farmers

"The strategy for agriculture will certainly create new jobs, especially in the allied sector. However, agriculture's share of employment will actually reduce, from the current 70 per cent to 40-45

Publication Date:

14/07/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20040715

pp:

0

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