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Double
disregard
Pakistan court supports environment against Nestle, US
troops |
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Fashioned
from glacier melt
An ingenious engineering scheme takes care of water-woes
of three Ladakh villages |
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4,000
year old water harvesting system found in Lothal
The ancient inhabitants demonstrated how best to integrate
land and water management practices |
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Did
rains fail?
Or the forcasting system?
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Drought
in wet Kerala
More than 2,000 mm of rain in 2003 but crops destroyed
and farmers committing suicide; crores spent on 31 irrigation
projects but villages going thirsty; 44 rivers but groundwater
is sinking. |
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Rite?
Wrong.
Ganga plumbs new depths in its journey through Varanasi
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 Harvest
of hope
Story of five villages of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh,
which withstood the devastating drought of 1999
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 Water
is everybody's business
The state is struggling to meet the rising water demand.
It is time to learn from the days when people arranged
for their own water. In cities and in villages. |
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 Dying
wisdom
Rise and fall of traditional water harvesting systems
in India. They are called kuhals in Jammu, kuls
in Himachal Pradesh and guls in Uttarakhand... |
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A N I T A T I O N |
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an effective way of treating sewage |
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| Thiruvananthapuram
needs a new sewage system |
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Sanitary
by 2010
Participatory survey gives Bangladesh the confidence
to prepone sanitation coverage target |
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 Ecologically
mindless
The flush toilet system and the sewage system, which
goes with modern day personal hygiene and cleanliness,
are part of the environmental problem and not the solution.
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 Real
estate on water
Lakes were critical for Indian cities. Today, they are
either encroached by real estate sharks or converted to
garbage dumps...
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The
great wetland suicide
There's enough water in the tanks of Bangalore, Madras
and Hyderabad, but more-than-enough corruption leaves
the south high and dry |
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Danger
mark
Scientists monitor riverbank erosion to predict floods |
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Climate
change and India: Exclusive on climate change
Rising temperatures result in more droughts, less water,
and may threaten India's food supply |
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Adverse
impact of climate change: Exclusive on climate change
Rising temperatures threatens coral reefs, our freshwater
supply, food security, biodiversity, weather patterns,
and make it easier for diseases |
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Caught
napping again
floods that lashed 23 of Orissa’s 30 districts have affected
over 35 lakh people... |
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Drought of relief
The drought of 2001 in 11 states of India is likely to
go down as one of the worst in the past century. |
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Tottering
on tragedies
A deadly cocktail of floods, cyclones, heat waves and
droughts has made Orissa the disaster capital of India
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 Poor
pay for ecological neglect
Droughts seem to be here to stay. Wrong development policies,
governmental indifference are the bane |
