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Water Resources

 Recycling gets a boost

to ensure that Britain meets the targets laid by the European Commission(ec), the government has promised to

Publication Date: 
30/12/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Waste Treatment, United Kingdom (UK), Waste Recycling, European Union (EU)
Water Resources

 Programme plugged

Urban rainwater harvesting will require a strategy that has different components. We have to recognise that just passing a law is not enough

Publication Date: 
30/12/2001
Anil Agarwal
Down to Earth
10
20011231
15
Tags:
Groundwater, Water Management, Water Conservation, Water Harvesting, Water Demand, Urbanisation, Architecture, Urban Waterlogging, Legislation, Supreme Court, Governance, Germany, India, Delhi
Water Resources

 GOMTI POLLUTION

The Supreme Court has asked Uttar Pradesh to identify appropriate land to set up oxidation plants to treat sewage before being discharged into the river. The areas are to be identified at Lakhimpur,

Publication Date: 
14/12/2001
Down to Earth
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River Pollution, Legislation, Supreme Court, Lakhimpur (D), Uttar Pradesh, Jaunpur (D)
Water Resources

 Pricing the precious

A pricing mechanism and harvesting techniques will solve water crisis

Publication Date: 
14/12/2001
Deep Narayan Pandey
Down to Earth
10
20011215
0
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Pollution, Water Resources, Water Management, Water Harvesting, Tank Irrigation, Watershed Development, NGO, Africa, Asia, India, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan
Water Resources

 Misdirected move

The Orissa government s decision to increase water cess for irrigation may spell doom for the state s farmers

Publication Date: 
14/12/2001
Ranjan Panda
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Resources, Farmers, Electricity, Economic Development, Legislation, Governance, World Bank, Orissa (Odisha)
Atmosphere And Ozone Layer

Aerosols, climate, and the hydrological cycle

Human activities are releasing tiny particles (aerosols) into the atmosphere. These human-made aerosols enhance scattering and absorption of solar radiation. They also produce brighter clouds that are less efficient at releasing precipitation. These in turn lead to large reductions in the amount of solar irradiance reaching Earth's surface, a corresponding increase in solar heating of the atmosphere, changes in the atmospheric temperature structure, suppression of rainfall, and less efficient removal of pollutants.

Publication Date: 
07/12/2001
V. Ramanathan, P. J. Crutzen, J. T. Kiehl & et al
Science
294
5549
2119-2124
Tags:
Aerosols, Climate Change, Hydrology, Solar Radiation, Rainfall, Air Pollution, Water Resources, Atmosphere, India, Indian Ocean, North Sea, North Atlantic Ocean, Biomass Gasification, Monsoons, Thailand, Brazil, Amazon, Atmosphere Science
India

 Water war

A dispuet is brewing between TN and Kerala over a controversial dam

Publication Date: 
29/11/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Resources, Water Harvesting, Dams, Irrigation, Conflicts, Governance, India, Kerala, Tamil Nadu
Industry

 Going green guns?

Even the best needs to be better for a clear distinction between leaders and laggards

Publication Date: 
29/11/2001
Down to Earth
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20011130
0
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Water Resources, Development, Automobiles, Industry
Water Resources

 Red tapism!

Expressing anger over the dilly

Publication Date: 
14/11/2001
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Water Resources

 Dismantling for good

japan's Atomic Power Corporation will begin dismantling in December 2001 the country's oldest commercial nuclear reactor. The 166,000-kilowatt nuclear reactor, commissioned in 1966, will become the

Publication Date: 
14/11/2001
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