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

Parched Goa

Mining waste jams water treatment plants lakhs of people in Tiswadi and Ponda talukas of North Goa are facing water shortage because mining activities in the catchment area of Opa Water Treatment Plant in Ponda are hampering the plant's functioning.

It's emergency

Severe drought in California CALIFORNIA governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared emergency in nine Central Valley counties experiencing severe drought.

South Africa's water judgement

in a landmark ruling on April 30 the High Court (hc) of South Africa announced prepaid water meters cannot be imposed on residents of Phiri--a township in Soweto outside Johannesburg. The judge, M P Tsoka, also ordered to provide residents of Phiri 50 litres per capita per day (lpcd) of free basic water, setting aside the city's decision to limit free water to 25 lpcd. This was in response to a petition filed in July 2006 by Lindiwe Mazibuko and four others living in the poor settlements in Phiri. They challenged

Prepaid water meters unconstitutional

In a landmark judgement, a South African court has slammed the Johannesburg municipality for its discriminatory approach in supplying water and ordered the removal of prepaid water meters.

From water to water

Look out of the window the next time you travel by road or by train anywhere in India. Hit a human settlement, and you will see, heaps of plastic coloured garbage apart, pools of dirty black water and drains that go nowhere. They go nowhere because we have forgotten a basic fact: if there are humans, there will be excreta. Indeed, we have also forgotten another truth about the so-called modern world: if there is water use, there will be waste. Roughly 80 per cent of the water that reaches households flows out as waste.

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.

Against the flow

Disregarding ecological and livelihood concerns, the Parbati hydroelectric project in Himachal Pradesh is moving forward. Experts warn that diverting water from the Parbati and its tributaries for power generation will leave the people in Kullu, where the project is coming up, with nothing to drink and irrigate their fields.

Protest for Kali river water

people from Uttar Karnataka's Dandeli town are opposing a move to draw water from the Kali river for a sugar mill proposed downstream. They say the factory will use up water meant for them. The Bharat Sugar Mills factory is trying to bring water from upstream since the river dries up downstream.

Malls in Ahmedabad violate green norms

an ngo has asked Gujarat's pollution control board for details of the clearances granted to over 12 large-scale shopping malls in Ahmedabad. It has alleged that most of the malls in the city violate environmental norms. The Ahmedabad-based ngo Paryavaran Mitra, filed a right to information rti) application on