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• Status of groundwater quality in India: Part-II

  The ground water quality of the 14 Metropolitan Cities of Faridabad, Delhi, Jaipur, Bhopal, Indore, Jabalpur, Nagpur, Nasik, Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Vishakhapatnam, Patna and Kochi has been assessed to see the suitability of ground water for domestic and irrigation applications. Twenty five ground water samples were collected each during pre- and post-monsoon seasons in the year 2004 and analysed for various physico-chemical and bacteriological parameters, heavy metals, pesticides and polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons.

  • 01/04/2008

  • CPCB
  • • Pesticides
    • Heavy Metals
    • Drinking Water Standards
    • Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB)
    • Groundwater Quality
    • DDT
    • Aldrin
    • Endosulfan
    • India

• Pesticides residues in food 2006

  The monitoring programme for pesticide residues in food undertaken by the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (DAFF) through its Pesticide Control Service (PCS), at Backweston, Co. Kildare, is aimed at ensuring that consumers are not exposed to unacceptable pesticide residue levels.

  • 01/04/2008

  • Government of Ireland
  • • Pesticides
    • Food Crops
    • Vegetables
    • Pesticides And Toxins
    • Maximum Residue Level (MRL)
    • Pesticide Residues
    • Food Safety
    • Ireland
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  Executive summary for Chormari - Degarhat limestone deposit at villages Chormari and Degarhat, Satna

  Jaiprakash Associates Limited (JAL) is a leading industrial house for civil construction and hydropower projects. M/s JAL has entered into cement sector during 1986 for diversification. Presently, the group owns two cement plants having annual production of 3.5 and 2.5 million tonnes, which are located in Rewa district, M.P. The limestone from proposed Chormari

  • 01/04/2008

  • Min Mec Consultancy Pvt. Ltd
  • • Environment Impact Assessment (EIA)
    • Mining
    • Limestone
    • Madhya Pradesh
    • Satna (D)

• Specification for the grading of mangoes: draft CARICOM standard

  This draft CARICOM standard was prepared by the Regional technical Committee (RTC) for Agricultural Commodities, hosted by the CARICOM Member State, Dominica.

  • 01/04/2008

  • Dominica Bureau of Standards
  • • Heavy Metals
    • Mango
    • Pesticides And Toxins
    • Pesticide Residues
    • CODEX
    • Exports
    • Dominica

• Performance of Indian cement industry: the competitive landscape

  The cement industry is experiencing a boom on account of the overall growth of the Indian economy primarily because of increased industrial activity, flourishing real estate business, growing construction activity, and expanding investment in the

  • 01/04/2008

  • University of Mumbai
  • • Cement
    • Exports
    • Industry
    • Cement Industry
    • Technology
    • India

• Fertiliser growth, imbalances and subsidies: trends and implications

  This paper examines trend in fertiliser use at national and state level and estimates imbalances in use of plant nutrients in different regions. The paper estimates regional disparities in fertiliser use and in benefits of fertiliser subsidy from different angles. Trend in fertiliser subsidy is presented in nominal and real terms and distortions caused by the subsidies are discussed at length.

  • 01/04/2008

  • National Centre for Agricultural Economics and Policy Research
  • • Agriculture
    • Chemical Fertilisers
    • Food Crops
    • Subsidies
    • India
    • Crops

• Inspection report on M/S Vedanta Aluminium Limited, Lanjigarh, Kalahandi

  M/s Vedanta Aluminium Limited has established a refinery plant of capacity to produce 1 MTPA aluminia. The plant comprises of two alumina production streams of capacity 0.5 MTPA each and three steam generation plants. The steam generation plants not only cater the requirement of steam for production of Alumina from bauxite by also electricity of 75 MW is generated for plant uses.

  • 01/04/2008

  • Orissa State Pollution Control Board
  • • Pollution
    • Water Pollution
    • Air Pollution
    • Mining
    • Mineral-Based Industry
    • Orissa (Odisha)
    • Kalahandi
    • Vedanta Aluminium
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  Hong Kong proposed regulatory framework for pesticide residues in food

  The new subsidiary legislation to govern pesticide residues in food proposed by Hong Kong Food and Environmental Hygiene Department. Will take a positive list approach by primarily adopting the maximum residue limits and extraneous maximum residue limits of pesticides recommended by Codex.

  • 01/04/2008

  • USDA Foreign Agricultural Service
  • • Food Standards
    • Pesticides And Toxins
    • Pesticide Regulation
    • Maximum Residue Level (MRL)
    • Pesticide Residues
    • Food Safety
    • Hong Kong

• NHPC: people don't matter

  India's National Hydroelectric Power Corporation has made a name for itself as one of the country's most ruthless corporations. As a state-owned company, NHPC has been able to ignore the conditions set out by India's Environment Ministry, state legislation and in project agreements to guarantee the rights of people affected by its projects. This report by Heffa Sch

  • 01/04/2008

  • Urgewald
  • • Narmada Valley
    • North East
    • Teesta
    • Dams
    • Indira Sagar
    • Omkareshwar
    • National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC)
    • Lower Subansiri
    • Sikkim

• Industrial livestock production and its impact on smallholders in developing countries

  The industrialisation of livestock production has reached most countries in the world. Three quarters of the world

  • 01/04/2008

  • League for Pastoral Peoples and Endogenous Livestock Development
  • • Environment
    • Pigs
    • Poultry
    • Dairy Development
    • Milk
    • Contract Farming
    • Economy
    • Developing Countries
    • Livestock

• Water to the people: drinking water and water for livelihoods - conflicts and alternative concepts in India

  Access to water and control over it is not only a matter of survival but an issue of democratic participation of all citizens in the management of their country's natural resources, particularly as conflicts over water increase.

  • 01/04/2008

  • EED
  • • Common Property Resources
    • Coca Cola
    • Rivers
    • Palar
    • Groundwater
    • Water Policy
    • Drinking Water
    • Water Privatisation
    • Conflicts
    • India
    • Chennai (T)
    • Sivaganga (T)

• Protecting health from climate change: World Health Day 2008

  In 2008, World Health Day focuses on the need to protect health from the adverse effects of climate change. WHO selected this theme in recognition that climate change is posing ever growing threats to global public health security.

  • 01/04/2008

  • WHO
  • • Ecosystems
    • Malnutrition
    • Climate Change
    • Natural Disasters
    • Health
    • Disaster Management
    • Displacement
    • Children
    • Environmental Health

• Report on common effluent treatment plants (CETPs)

  This report is being filed in compliance with the Hon

  • 01/04/2008

  • Environment Pollution (Prevention & Control) Authority
  • • Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA)
    • Supreme Court
    • India
    • Delhi
    • Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP)

• Africa: ecological footprint and human well-being

  This report shows the impact of the average African to be low by western standards. But it also reveals that a growing number of African countries are now depleting their natural resources

  • 01/04/2008

  • WWF International
  • • Environment
    • Water Resources
    • Urbanisation
    • Biodiversity
    • Ecology
    • Africa

• Climate, water, development: Asia adapts through new approaches and investments

  Climate change is not just an environmental issue; and responding to climate change is not just about turning to more efficient energy technologies. Climate change is also an economic issue and the poverty-stricken Asia and Pacific region must learn to cope with it now and prepare for a future of more change.

  • 01/04/2008

  • Asian Development Bank
  • • Water Resources
    • Climate Change
    • Development
    • Climate Mitigation
    • Climate Adaptation
    • Asia

• Rethinking disasters: why death and destruction is not nature's fault but human failure

  A destructive combination of earthquakes, floods, droughts and other hazards make South Asia is the world

  • 01/04/2008

  • Oxfam (India) Trust
  • • Environment
    • Natural Disasters
    • Disaster Preparedness
    • Poverty
    • Human Rights
    • India
    • South Asia
    • Climate Change

• Climate for a transport change

  This report represents a summary of selected issues from the European Environment Agency Transport and Environment Reporting Mechanism (EEA TERM) set of transport and environment integration indicators.

  • 01/04/2008

  • European Environment Agency
  • • Environment
    • Climate Change
    • Green House Gases
    • Biofuel
    • Transport
    • European Union (EU)
    • Air Pollution

• Differential adaptation strategies to climate change in African cropland by agro-ecological zones

  This paper quantifies how African farmers have adapted their crop and irrigation decisions to their farm's current agro-ecological zone. The results indicate that farmers carefully consider the climate and other conditions of their farm when making these choices. These results are then used to forecast how farmers might change their irrigation and crop choice decisions if climate changes. The model predicts African farmers would adopt irrigation more often under a very hot and dry climate scenario but less often with a mild and wet scenario.

  • 01/04/2008

  • The World Bank
  • • Croplands
    • Irrigation
    • Climate Change
    • Farmers
    • Africa

• Designing an effective leakage reduction and management program

  One of the principal concerns today for the deteriorating quality of water supply and sanitation services in India is the high levels of nonrevenue water (NRW)

  • 01/04/2008

  • Water and Sanitation Program-South Asia
  • • Water Management
    • Water Distribution
    • Water Supply
    • Sanitation
    • Vietnam
    • India

• A structural ricardian analysis of climate change impacts and adaptations in African agriculture

  This report develops a Structural Ricardian model to measure climate change impacts that explicitly models the choice of farm type in African agriculture. This two stage model first estimates the type of farm chosen and then the conditional incomes of each farm type after removing selection biases.

  • 01/04/2008

  • The World Bank
  • • Agriculture
    • Climate Change
    • Climate Impacts
    • Climate Adaptation
    • Africa