India

United States has provided $1.5 million of funding to UN's World Health Organisation (WHO) agency to help it establish an additional 40 treatment centres to fight water-borne diseases in the 'high risk' flood-affected areas of Pakistan.

The grant brings to 55 the number of US-funded treatment centres in the hardest flood-hit districts.

India first needs to innovate the solution itself, and then focus on the product
Arvind Singhal / New Delhi July 29, 2010, 0:03 IST

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DEJECTED over the State gover nment's unfulfilled promise, fishermen living in 15 hamlets near Kattupalli have planned the show black flags to Chief Minister M Karunanidhi during his visit to launch the desalination plant at Minjur on July 31.

NEW DELHI: A study of leading storage water purifier brands available in the Capital has revealed that none of them adheres to international standards of providing clean drinking water.

Sales of water purification systems usually pick up with the onset of the monsoon as susceptibility to various diseases, including water-borne ones, rises.

MUMBAI: Eureka Forbes has launched a new product AquaSure for safe and pure drinking water. The product, AquaSure 3PCTi storage water purifier, is powered with SureKit Shield which is the result of the company's research for over a decade in providing safe drinking water. The company has been in the market for the last 25 years with its popular product Aquaguard.

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Hyderabad, July 13: Till a few years ago, electricity generation projects used to be set up close to where coal was available. They were called pit-head stations. But with increasing water shortage, power projects across the country are moving towards coastal areas thanks to new technology that desalinates water.