India

 Mumbai hit with diseases after rains

after the monsoon deluge, Mumbai has witnessed an outbreak of diseases such as malaria, dengue and leptospirosis, taking the death toll to 68 on August 2. The pace at which people are dying is

Publication Date: 
30/08/2006
Payal Mehta
Down to Earth
Tags:
Waterborne diseases, Malaria, Dengue, Typhoid, Hepatitis, Vector Borne Diseases, India, Mumbai, Statistics, Diseases, Rainfall
Transport

 Climate change

Least polluting countries hit the hardest

Publication Date: 
14/01/2006
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Malnutrition, Waterborne diseases, El Nino, Epidemics, Developing Countries, Diseases
Health

Water-borne crisis

The CAG blames the Orissa government's failure to provide safe potable water for the outbreak of diseases in the State.

Publication Date: 
06/05/2005
Prafulla Das
Frontline (Chennai)
Tags:
Orissa (Odisha), Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), Waterborne diseases, Diarrhoea, Hepatitis, Bhubaneswar, Drinking Water, Ganjam
India

 Rash of ailments

Followed by new scheme to track diseases

Publication Date: 
30/07/2003
Down to Earth
Tags:
Health Effects, Waterborne diseases, Epidemics, India, Kerala, Orissa (Odisha), West Bengal
Climate Change

Climate change and human health: Risks and responses

This report seeks to describe the context and process of global climate change, its actual or likely impacts on health, and how human societies and their governments should respond with particular focus on the health sector.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2003
WHO
Tags:
Food Supply, Health Effects, Waterborne diseases, Climate Change, IPCC, Global Warming, Climate Impacts, Sea Level Rise, Natural Disasters, Diarrhoea, Famine, Sanitation, Vector Borne Diseases, Infectious Diseases, Food Security, Rainfall
India

 State sponsors disability

Several UP villages fall prey to crippling disease
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Publication Date: 
30/12/2002
Nidhi Jamwal
Down to Earth
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Water Pollution, Groundwater Pollution, Drinking Water, Health Effects, Waterborne diseases, Cancer, Child Health, Fluorosis, Tuberculosis, High Court, India, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh
India

 PILing up pressure

HC tells UP government to submit action taken report on fluorosis incidence

Publication Date: 
30/12/2002
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Water Pollution, Groundwater Pollution, Drinking Water, Health Effects, Waterborne diseases, Cancer, Child Health, Fluorosis, Tuberculosis, High Court, India, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh
India

 Dengue - reality bites

The millions affected have many to curse

Publication Date: 
14/07/2002
Ritu Gupta
Down to Earth
Tags:
Tanks, Waterborne diseases, Malaria, Dengue, Urbanisation, Medical Research, Vaccination, Yellow Fever, Public Participation, WHO, Thailand, India, Delhi, Karnataka, Statistics
India

 Contaminated water

at least 500,000 people were affected by waterborne diseases during 1995-2000 in the union territory of Pondi

Publication Date: 
14/10/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Pollution, Industrial Dispersal, Water Quality, Waterborne diseases, Industry, India, Pondicherry
Water Pollution

 Official contamination

the Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) has recently acknowledged that it is supplying drinking water highly contaminated by Escherichia coli bacteria, and the pollution levels far surpass the limits

Publication Date: 
29/09/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Pollution, Drinking Water, Waterborne diseases, Cholera, India

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