Price to pay

It costs a fortune to own a car in Singapore

Environmental business

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Discovery of India

Anil Agarwal delivers his acceptance speech for the Norman Borlaug Award 2001

Ramsar is not a strong, strict and rigid convention

India has listed 16 wetlands under the Ramsar sites, but with no policies, knowledge or interest shown by the authorities, proper management is …

Debating delivery

How effective have been the interventions by government and donor agencies in water management?

Memories of a protest

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The legendary Gandhian

Pakistani social scientist Akhtar Hameed Khan, is remembered, on his first death anniversary, for his achievements in the field of urban management

A decentralised system will lead to sustainable water use

S Vishwanath, a Bangalore-based engineer and planner, started the Rainwater Club to help people manage rainwater efficiently. He spoke to Binayak …

Health care should be cheaper and more accessible

N H ANTIA Director of the Foundation for Research in Community Health, Pune, Maharashtra is striving to promote the concept of better health care …

When 'calamity' strikes

Water harvesting is the new catchword for the government struggling against drought. And the media is going out of its way to spread the word. In …

Humans first

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A bushful of medicine

Seabuckthorn, a plant with numerous medicinal properties, grows wild in India. Rural communities are the losers

Water revolution

It is not easy to initiate a movement for water conservation in the face of drought. But the Madhya Pradesh government pushed forward in all the …

Time to act

The Madhya Pradesh government has recently sent a letter to the Prime Minister seeking changes in the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980. The …

What it takes to clean a river

It is the tale of two European rivers. The Rhine and the Danube. No river system in the world has a density of industrial agglomerations …

Not a bankable strategy

World Bank's forestry projects have not helped reduce poverty, says its own evaluator

Agents of change

Gramdoots, or village volunteers, mobilise people to get government machinery moving

A brush with industry

PERU

Ecological poverty

The Blue Danube

An international convention for protection of the Danube hopes to restore the river's ecosystem

Plastic Unlimited

New rules to restrict the use of plastic in India may end up promoting the polymer industry

Seeking Reliance

The Andhra Pradesh government is giving forests that sustain tribal communities to the Reliance group of industries for plantations. That, too, …

Forestland benefits

Under the Lok Vaniki scheme, a farmer can extract benefits from his land by selling its produce, including timber

Water is wealth

Excerpts from the Statement of Shared Concern by the participants of the CSE conference on Potential of Water Harvesting: Traditions, Policies …