Yamuna

The answer to the whole issue of murky rivers lies in preventing their pollution, rather than polluting them first and then treating the raw river water for drinking purposes

Publication Date:

27/02/1997

Author(s): Anil Agarwal

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

5

Issue:

19970228

pp:

19

Tags:

River Pollution, Yamuna, Drinking Water, India

Pesticides And Toxins

Homicide by pesticides: what pollution does to our bodies

A series of articles discuss the effects of environmental pollution on public health.

Publication Date:

Dec 1996

Author(s): Anil Agarwal

Source: Centre for Science and Environment

Tags:

Pollution, Water Pollution, River Pollution, Pesticides, Yamuna, Health Effects

India

All rivers to Delhi?

In their greed for more water for the capital city, planners duck the question of wasteful expenditure of local water sources

Publication Date:

30/12/1996

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Water Resources, Yamuna, Urban Water Supply, India, Delhi

India

Tables

See all the tables

Publication Date:

14/04/1996

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

4

Issue:

19960415

pp:

0

Tags:

River Pollution, Yamuna, Urban Sanitation, India, Delhi

India

A river sutra

A journey down the Yamuna through its course in Delhi may not exactly fit the league of Joseph Conrad's Congo odyssey in his Heart of Darkness, but it does inspire some excitement. My suggestion

Publication Date:

14/04/1996

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

4

Issue:

19960415

pp:

0

Tags:

River Pollution, Yamuna, Urban Sanitation, India, Delhi

India

When a river weeps...

Reduced to being a receptacle of household and industrial wastes and victimised by lopsided development, the Yamuna, Delhi's lifeline, is crying out for attention

Publication Date:

14/04/1996

Author(s): Anju Sharma

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

4

Issue:

19960415

pp:

0

Tags:

River Pollution, Yamuna, Urban Sanitation, India, Delhi

India

DIRTY TRICKS

Come summer and the squabbling for water between Delhi and Haryana begins. Haryana was pulled up by the Supreme Court of India on February 24, for its failure to stop the leakage of highly

Publication Date:

30/03/1996

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

River Pollution, Yamuna, Legislation, India, Haryana

India

Moral issue in a bathtub

"DELHI will not have to beg for water any more," was the preening claim of chief minister Madanlal Khurana on May 12, after his counterparts from Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and Uttar

Publication Date:

14/06/1994

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

3

Issue:

19940615

pp:

0

Tags:

Yamuna, Urban Water Supply, India, Delhi

India

Sharing the succour

A 25-year-old dispute over sharing of the Yamuna waters has at last been settled with Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Delhi signing an agreement on March 12 -- reached after

Publication Date:

14/06/1994

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Yamuna, Water Distribution, India