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Nitya Jacob
Nitya Jacob
Programme director for water at the Centre for Science and Environment and author of the book, Jalyatra, India's traditional water wisdom
Articles by the Author
2012-12-28
Centre will not encroach upon state’s rights, says Prime Minister
2012-12-21
IARI develops wetlands that treat sewage water for irrigation
2012-12-18
For mass use, any ICT tool has to offer a familiar interface and clear value proposition
2012-11-15
West Bengal, severely affected by arsenic in its groundwater, takes slow but steady steps to deal with it
2012-9-29
Maps in the atlas, released by Central Ground Water Board, indicate priority areas for water conservation and groundwater recharge
2012-8-1
Order will impact 450 ongoing projects
1993-6-15
Small is not always beautiful: Small-scale industries in India account for only 35 per cent of the country's industrial production, but their share of pollution is a whopping 65 per cent.
1993-7-31
Kamal Nath is one of the few Indian ministers to have acquired an international image. He has traversed the globe to attend various environmental conferences and has also played host to several of his foreign counterparts. Nath argues the new-found green internationalism was inevitable. But the implications of this green diplomacy are being watched closely by other government ministers and non-governmental organisations.
1993-7-31
Medha Patkar, doyenne of the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA), which opposes the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) on the Narmada river, has won a major battle by getting the Union government to discuss the Rs 13,500-crore dam for the first time ever with her group. After the World Bank withdrew financing for the controversial project, NBA embarked on an intense campaign to highlight human rights violations by the governments Maharashtra, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh -- the states involved with SSP. Her efforts have been somewhat undermined by the exodus of people from villages facing submergence to resettlement colonies, mainly in Gujarat. But this has failed to discourage her and she spoke enthusiastically to Down To Earth about NBA and its future
1993-7-31
The government and anti-dam activists gave ground during the first-ever talks on the controversial Sardar Sarovar Project
1993-7-31
Forty-five-year-old Keshubhai of Manibeli has come to symbolise not only all that is wrong with state power, but also the Narmada Bachao Andolan's campaign against civil rights violations by the Maharashtra government. His hut, the first that would have been submerged by the rising Narmada waters, was "forcibly demolished" by the Maharashtra government on June 3. He spoke to Down To Earth at the venue of NBA leader Medha Patkar's recent hunger strike:
1993-7-31
Prompted by a financial crunch, the ministry of health is considering raising fees in medical colleges to recover costs
1993-7-15
MANAGEMENT FOR A SMALL PLANET W Edward Stead and Jean Garner Stead Publisher: Sage Publications, London Price: $36 (Hardback); $17.95 (Paperback)
1993-7-15
The Narmada Bachao Andolan has forced a reconsideration of the Sardar Sarovar Project. But with Gujarat opposed to any review and support for NBA eroding, the talks may turn out to be the calm between storms
1993-6-30
As confusion reigns over how municipal water in three Agra localities was contaminated, self-appointed social workers are trying to exploit the tragedy.
1993-6-30
The oil pipeline burst at Bombay High exposes maintenance lapses and highlights the urgent need for environment management plans to tackle such mishaps.
1993-6-15
Small is not always beautiful: Small-scale industries in India account for only 35 per cent of the country's industrial production, but their share of pollution is a whopping 65 per cent.
1993-5-31
The killing of tigers and of forest guards in Ranthambore is the result of a conservation strategy that took away the rights of the local people and made them willing allies of poachers.
1993-5-15
A Supreme Court order demanding immediate closure of about 250 mines in and around the Sariska Tiger Reserve has evoked little response from the Rajasthan government.
1993-5-15
In an effort to improve the quality of technology coming into the country, the Indian government has decided to remove the low ceiling on royalty payments.
1993-4-30
Various reasons are being put forward to explain why India refused further World Bank assistance for the controversial Sardar Sarovar project.
1993-4-30
India was the first country in the world to make environmental audits mandatory, hoping it would encourage industry to shift from pollution control to process efficiency
1993-4-15
The Indian Coast Guard has filed an initial multi-crore claim for its role in mopping up thousands of tonnes of oil spilt off Groat Nicobar Island in January.
1993-3-15
Doctors and manufacturers seem unperturbed by the ever-increasing price of Acetrome, a drug for heart valve transplant patients.
1993-2-28
Indian crews successfully contained a huge oil spill near the Great Nicobar island. Now, the ministry of environment and forests must assess the damage to the island chain's ecology.
1993-2-15
THE BILLION DOLLAR BATTLE Matthew Lynn . Publisher: Mandarin Paperback, London . Price: 5.99 (pound)
1993-2-15
Proposal by manufacturers to withdraw import concessions on certain pesticides is resented by farmers who fear that it will result in major price hikes.
1993-2-15
Badly planned strategies, along with other reasons, have resulted in a failure to conserve the habitats of wild animals. An example: fewer numbers of a rare migratory bird are now visiting the Keoladeo National Park.
1993-1-31
With the pollution-conscious West pushing large-scale production of toxic chemicals to India, the result is more exports and more environmental damage.
1992-12-15
DECEMBER 2-3 marks the eighth anniversary of the Bhopal gas leak - the world's worst industrial disaster. More than 4,000 lives were lost and 6.4 lakh people injured when methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas leaked from the Union Carbide (India) Ltd plant. Since then, an average of two persons die daily from after-effects of the gas. But victims still await compensation from a government bureaucracy dithering over categorisation and individual payments.
1992-11-15
As scientists debate which of two new pesticides should be used in the fight against malaria, the toll in the disease slowly rises.
1992-11-15
Despite restrictions on harmful pesticides, their use by farmers continues. This is forcing foreign countries to reduce imports substantially of farm products from India.
1992-10-15
MNCs are virtually shutting out indigenous manufacturers from the urban slice of the telecom pie, but the fault is not entirely theirs.
1992-9-30
Worried by the steady erosion of India's wealth of genetic diversity, a major expansion project will quadruple storage capacity in the national gene bank
1992-9-15
Industry pundits predict that greater decentralisation for the drug sector will raise production to three times the present level in less than a decade. Higher costs will, of course, be the price the common person will have to pay
1992-8-31
Biotechnology, which holds the answers to many persistent problems such as controlling disease and increasing food production, has tremendous potential in cash-strapped India. But to succeed, it needs a helping hand from industry.
1992-7-31
The Rajasthan and Haryana governments feel threatened by the Centre's move to stop industrial, mining and quarrying activity in the Aravalli region. Environmentalists, on the other hand, applaud the move
1992-6-30
The environment audit for industries purports to make industries accountable to the public for their actions
The UN environment report states that Ganga would disappear by 2030.There would be no need to train engineers or even Ganga...
A report published in the Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology suggests that babies of...
Yes, the happening and looming threat of the loss of Bio-cultural diversity stares us in the face. This is particularly true...