Worldwide, cities and townships are facing many complex wastewater treatment issues. Although centralized sewers are seen as a preferred solution to wastewater problems, areas with centralized sewers discharding to surface waters, have been identified as source of many pollution problems. Lack of sufficient, even basic treatment is a risk to public health.
India has come a long way from the bad old days of tiger shooting as 'sport' to tiger tourism as a growing business. India has 39 tiger reserves scattered all over the tiger's range, covering about 40,000 sq. km of forest. Unfortunately, almost 50 per cent are in very bad shape, but they can be recovered with proper management. (Editorial)
The occurrence and distribution of 81 wood decaying fungi on different hosts in forest wood depots of Chhattisgarh is reported. The study area is confined to nine wood depots and each wood depot, depending on area occupied, is divided into five sectors.
Health sector reforms associated with decentralization, contraction of public sector, service contracting, user fees, etc., influence health sector both from the demand side and the supply side. In the wake of decreasing public expenditure on health, it is necessary to find the other factors that could take care of the health status. This article is an attempt to find the impact of economic reforms on infant mortality rate and life expectancy at birth. The study is based upon secondary data. Statistical tools like mean, ranking, and regression models are used.
Khalwa block in the East Nimar (Khandwa) district of Madhya Pradesh has been in contemporary debate over development not only in the state but also in national level for so many reasons. In recent times revival of the existing canal irrigation systems by Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (India) in Dabhiya and neighboring Dagadkot village which was built by the government nearly two decades ago has raised the rays of hopes among the farmers of the villages.
The local farmers possess an immense knowledge of their environment. An effort was made to carryout a research on the conservation and testing of nitrogen effect over the location specific indigenous paddy varieties in purposively selected tribals
An attempt has been made to identify folklore medicinally important plants frequently used by rural communities of sacred groves and it environs of Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu. A total of 34 medicinal plants from 33 genera under 29 families were enumerated. Most of the plants are used for curing earache, skin diseases, fever, cold, headache, cough, urinary disorder, ulcer, etc.
Although batch composting of manure is very common throughout China at both large and small scales, there is little experience with composting of human waste in urban centres. This project, the first on thermal composting of human faeces under indoor controlled conditions, took place in a highdensity urban setting in Dongsheng, Erdos Municipality in Inner Mongolia, China.
The politics and the underlying reasons behind the recovery of the Scandinavian wolf population are increasingly contested. According to official policy, wolves should be guaranteed a place in the Swedish natural world.
A small number of investigations regarding the maneater problem in the Bangladesh Sundarbans have been carried out. So far, the total number of tiger victims in the Sundarbans has remained hidden, since too many casualties of illegal intruders have gone unreported.
