Packaged water @ 10 paise/litre

Rural water supply scheme for Andhra has no room for public opinion; price may be hiked later villagers in Andhra Pradesh will soon get their drinking water supply in 20-litre plastic containers. The government has shortlisted five companies that would treat raw water and sell it to villagers. The government thinks this is the best way to supply safe drinking

Business in typhoid

A clinical trial okays an expensive vaccine for India

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Contamination

Studies confirm poor water quality in Mumbai

Muddy Water

About 1.2 billion people in the world live with inadequate access to safe drinking water. Over 2.6 billion do not have access to sanitation facilities In developing countries 80 per cent of the health

Israel chokes off chlorine supply to Gaza

Barely a few days before Israel pulled out its forces from Gaza, its incursion had choked off chlorine supplies to the coastal strip, making water-borne epidemics imminent.

Global aid on sanitation is southward bound

Globally, 2.6 billion people lack access to safe and clean toilets. For example, 92 per cent of the population in Afghanistan don't have proper sanitation; 67 per cent in India as well. A gramme of human faeces contains 10 million viruses, one million bacteria, 1,000 parasite cysts and 100 parasite eggs

World Toilet Conference

The seventh World Toilet Conference got over in Delhi on November 2. The theme of the four-day summit was 'Toilet for all'.

Zinc supplements don't help healthy children

zinc supplements are widely promoted only in the oral rehydration therapy to treat diarrhoea. Plans to use it as a general supplement, have suffered a setback with a new study proving that they wouldn't help healthy children. Observing children who were given zinc supplements, us scientists found no significant differences in mortality rates, episodes of diarrhoea, dysentery and respiratory infections in the children.

Post-floods, Orissa's tribal districts suffer cholera outbreak

A cholera outbreak has ravaged Orissa's tribal-dominated Kalahandi, Koraput and Rayagada districts since early August. The state government says the region has reported 119 deaths so far. About 6,000 people have been treated for cholera and other stomach diseases.