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South Asia
Dabur’s Real trouble in Sri Lanka
Issue Date: Jun 30, 2013
Over 300 million Indians still defecate in the open: WHO-UNICEF report
@kundanmcu Issue Date: May 15, 2013
One-third of the world’s population, about 2.4 billion people, will remain without access to improved sanitation in 2015, according to a report recently published jointly by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations International Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF). The report says that three south Asian countries, including Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal have shown significant improvement in the past 20 years. In India, however, more than the quarter of the population still practices open defecation.
309,000 infants die on first day
Issue Date: May 31, 2013
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Politics of irrigation
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2013
Most irrigation bureaucracies believe problems of farmers end once water is delivered on to a block of land. Irrigation is an essential component of agriculture but it is not neutral. More often than not it reaches rich farmers. This can affect poor farmers unless there is concerted social action to counter the effect. Introducing farmer managed irrigation systems (FMIS), too, has not helped.
Wake up and smell the air
Issue Date: Mar 15, 2013
Our health is not on anybody’s agenda. Or, we just don’t seem to make the connections between the growing burden of disease and the deteriorating condition of our environment. We don’t really believe the science, which tells us each passing day how toxins affect our bodies, leading to high rates of both morbidity and mortality.
High BP, tobacco are top killers
Issue Date: Jan 15, 2013
DISEASE patterns are changing world over. Deaths from infectious diseases, poor nutrition and maternal and child illnesses, which used to be the key global killers two decades ago, are down. More people today die of non-communicable diseases such as high blood pressure and due to tobacco and alcohol consumption. This is one of the key findings of a study on the global burden of disease, published in The Lancet on December 13, 2012.
The phoenix act
Issue Date: Dec 15, 2012
Double whammy
Issue Date: Oct 15, 2012
After killing its lifeline, the Bagmati, Kathmandu valley is extracting its groundwater to the last drop. But the quality of groundwater here is fast deteriorating due to lack of proper sewage disposal system and years of overexploitation, warn analysts.
Renal emergency
Issue Date: Sep 15, 2012
P G Jayasingha sat on his bed with a bloated stomach. Both his kidneys had failed and he was unable to pass urine. He could not drink water despite being thirsty. His arms and legs would constantly ache and his eyesight had failed him. That was in February when Down To Earth visited him.
