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Thames water misses official leakage control targets
Issue Date: Jul 31, 2006
Thames Water, the uk's biggest water company, has once again missed its official leakage control targets, despite growing pressure on water resources in Southern England and continuing drought in the region.
In Court
Issue Date: Jul 31, 2006
relief declined: The Krishna Water Tribunal declined to grant an interim relief on the applications filed by Maharashtra and Karnataka seeking the tribunal's intervention in restraining the lower riparian state of Andhra Pradesh from going ahead with the construction of 11 projects in the Krishna and Godavari basins. The three-member tribunal further said that use of surplus water in questionable projects by Andhra Pradesh will not entitle it to raise any claim on grounds of prior utilisation or committed use.
Namibia inoculates population post polio attack
Issue Date: Jul 31, 2006
Following an unusual outbreak of poliovirus affecting mostly adults, Namibia, a country in southwestern Africa, inoculated its entire population in the last week of June. The country is now preparing for follow-up campaigns.
Pit fossils
Issue Date: Jul 31, 2006
A collection of fossil bones, some dating back 40,000 years, jut out of the natural asphalt at Tar Pit 91, the only active urban excavation site in the world at the Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. It remains open for two months a year, when scientists and volunteers descend 4.5-metre underground to remove, clean and catalogue a baffling array of Ice Age biodiversity. This season it will be open from June 25 to September 11.
Thailand dumps 189 garbage trucks for artificial reef
Issue Date: Jul 31, 2006
Thailand has dumped at least 189 old garbage trucks off its southern coast, in a bid to build an artificial reef to lure fish for local fishermen. The trucks, once used to collect refuse in Bangkok, were dropped into the Gulf of Thailand, about 5.5 km from the southern province of Pattani.
Iran firm on its gas price
Issue Date: Jul 31, 2006
Striking down the requests of the governments of India and Pakistan, Iran has made it clear that the country will not sell its gas at a knock-down rate.
Doomsday vault in Arctic to save crop diversity
Issue Date: Jul 31, 2006
Foul play in Katrina, Rita relief operations
Issue Date: Jul 31, 2006
More than US $2 billion has been defrauded in Hurricane Katrina and Rita relief operations. The amount is nearly 11 per cent of the total funds spent by the Federal Emergency Management Agency on relief and rehabilitation for the hurricanes that hit the US in mid-June 2005.
Sikkim government to recruit villagers as mountain guardians
Issue Date: Jul 31, 2006
The Sikkim government has decided to recruit villagers as honorary mountain guardians or Himal Rakshaks. The decision has already been notified in the state gazette, which says that only villagers with high concern for wildlife conservation and "clean personal records residing in high altitude regions will be recruited for the posts".
