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Jul 1-15, 2004

Cover Story

SOPAN JOSHI travels through Andhra Pradesh, only to find that beyond the immediate crisis of state-wide farmers' suicide lies one decade of neglect. Of agriculture, which sustains 70 per cent of its people, actually rendered unproductive and life-denying. By the government.

Editor's page

I travelled in Kerala last fortnight, seeking answers. I wanted to know what government was doing to meet the drinking water needs of people in this wet-drought state. Searching in villages and academic papers, an anomalous statistic caught my eye. According to 1999 estimations of the National Sample Survey Organisation and the 2001 Census, only 11-14 per cent of rural Kerala had access to potable water supply. But the same data showed some 77-85 per cent of people had drinking water supply.

News

Madhya Pradesh's amended rehabilitation policy may render dam-affected tribals of 14 villages landless

Kerala plans to use water hyacinth to manufacture an important industrial enzyme

G-20 suggests parameters to cut agricultural tariffs

Nepal's practical approach to biodiversity conservation

Doubts cloud foreign firm's hepatitis drug tests in India

The Swiss government regulates even the numbers of polluting particulate matter

Excessive mining hits coastal Gujarat hard

Bid to dilute definition of radioactive wastes in the US

From government for Bhopal tragedy case in the US

Hydel project bang next to Kerala's evergreen forest

HC takes note of hospital waste recycling racket

Creation of panchayati raj ministry sparks row

MCD adapts new measure to combat dengue and malaria

Global warming will lead to water scarcity in Asia

Cancer linked to polluted water in the Gangetic belt

Process to regularise marine assessments delayed

Interview

GOURISANKAR GHOSH, executive director, Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council, Geneva, Switzerland tells NIDHI JAMWAL that there should be a regulatory framework to m...

Factsheet

World's poorest nations can't have the much needed investment for growth

Feature

Females of some insect species dominate males. Why?

A village in Madhya Pradesh prospers by reverting to its traditional means of livelihood

Women effect a remarkable change in two districts of backward Bundelkhand

Debate

The government's draft tribal policy is insensitive to most matters concerning tribals

New rules dilute the biodiversity act

Only to find out that weight loss clinics are a sham

Opinion

Andhra Pradesh is a watershed for agriculture in post-independent India. For the government

They will bankrupt development

Letters

Problem on wheels

Cars cause more harm than good. They kill thousands, maim millions and leak toxic substances onto roads and parking lots which contribute to water pollution from runoff. They also contaminate the air. The us should learn from Europe and develop a non-polluting, efficient and safe mass public transport.

FRANK GUBASTA
uwmap@earthlink.net...

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