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Haze, pollution causing low visibility over north India: Met department
Issue Date: Nov 24, 2011
Fog generally occurs in mid-December in North India. So people living in this part of the country were taken by surprise when they woke to a foggy morning on November 19. Since then, foggy weather has continued to disrupt rail and road traffic, despite the fact that the mercury did not dip much.The Met department has blamed emissions from north India for the haze.
Sourcing water from fog
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2003
Humans usually source water from rivers, wells, ponds or underground aquifers. All these sources are ultimately fed by rain (scientists prefer the word 'precipitation'). But there exists another, lesser known, source of water: occult precipitation, the water one gets from fog.
