First food: business of taste
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
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No treatment plant leading to water pollution: Report
Absence of a sewerage treatment plant in Bhubaneswar has led to release of urban and industrial effluents into the rivers untreated, in turn polluting the rivers from which Capital sources its drinking
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India’s Septic Problem
Some good sanitation news, discussed in a Nature commentary this week, is that some 80 percent of India’s urban residents now have access to a toilet. The bad news is that only a third of India’s urban
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‘India is drowning in its own excreta’
Sixty per cent of people living in India do not have access to toilets, and hence are forced to defecate in the open. In actual numbers, sixty per cent translates to 626 million. This makes India the number one country in the world where open defecation is practised. Indonesia with 63 million is a far second! At 949 million in 2010 worldwide, vast majority of people practising open defecation live in rural areas. Though the number of rural people practising open defecation has reduced by 234 million in 2010 than in 1990, “those that continue to do so tend to be concentrated in a few countries, including India,” notes the 2012 update report of UNICEF and the World Health Organisation (WHO).
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WHO sounds alarm: diesel exhaust causes lung cancer
Fumes from diesel engines cause lung cancer, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), based in Lyon, France, issued a notification on Tuesday
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Groundwater half of ‘supply’
New Delhi: On paper, about 12% of Delhi’s water needs are met by groundwater reserves. Unofficially, the figure almost touches 50%. A recent analysis of groundwater abuse conducted by Centre for Science
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Sanitation for all
Water pollution from sewage is causing great damage to India. The nation needs to complete its waste systems and reinvent toilet technologies, says Sunita Narain.
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Stained steel
The iron and steel sector is non-transparent, non-compliant with weak environmental norms and is getting away with it because of an even weaker regulatory framework When the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) started its Green Rating Project in the mid-1990s, India had just liberalised its economy. There were fears that it would be disastrous if the country took the route to economic growth that ignored environmental considerations. The Green Rating Project was designed to find ways of measuring the environmental performance of companies and to drive changes in policy and practice through public disclosure.
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Steel isn't green
Better regulation of the sector is needed The environmental performance of the Indian iron and steel industry is poor, according to the latest indices released by the Green Rating Project of the Centre for Science and Environment. On a scale of 10 (the theoretical best), the global best practitioners score eight, while the Indian leaders score only two. The steel industry, if it chooses to ignore this index, will be an outlier.
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Rising car ridership worsening pollution, congestion in Delhi: CSE
With car ridership set to boom by 106 per cent, Delhi's air pollution and congestion crisis is bound to worsen, warns a survey by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE). Calling for transport planning
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Essar Steel wins CSE’s green rating award
Steel major Essar Steel Ltd (ESL) has received the CSE's Green Rating Award for its efforts towards resource use efficiency and steel slag re-use. Mr Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, Planning