For India, with fizz
JPC report sets serious reform agenda on food safety, water security and public health
JPC report sets serious reform agenda on food safety, water security and public health
NIDHI JAMWAL wonders what happened after Gurgaon got colonyfied
46 cities in China are sinking due to excessive pumping out of groundwater. According to a survey conducted by the Ministry of Land and Resources, rapid depletion of groundwater has lead to the soil
This manual is built out of CSE's experience in providing technical advice to implement rainwater harvesting in the urban context.
There is never any end to learning. And so, surprises. We have learnt, over 20 years, that environmental governance in India is lackadaisical. Still, the extent of irresponsibility never fails to surprise...
Judgement of the Kerala High Court in the case of Perumatty Grama Panchayat vs State of Kerala dated 16/12/2003 (Coca-Cola groundwater exploitation case).
Beneath the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip is a groundwater crisis that's rapidly depriving Palestinians of drinking water. Israel and the Palestinian authority share the Mediterranean Coastal
Groundwater sale continues in Goa in violation of new law
A few days ago, most of India reeled under drought. Cities thirsted for water. Karnataka s chief minister S M Krishna seeing water supply in his software capital reduced to once in three days
Groundwater sustains almost 60 per cent of the irrigated land in India. Most districts in India today have larger shares of irrigated land under groundwater irrigation than under surface water irrigation. This ominous change in water use patterns in Ind
But not a drop to drink. The heat wave has already killed more than a thousand people all over India. Taps in major metros are running dry. Water bodies are evaporating. Groundwater supplies are
At a time when river networking is being touted as a panacea for the entire country’s water woes, the tide of opinion in Karnataka is turning against the concept. The dissent is moored to a proposed local scheme to divert Nethravathi river
Dhaka is being milked dry. Of late, there has been a rapid decline in the city s groundwater table. In fact, it has depleted by over 20 m during the past six years
Human negotiation with its own capacities and actions often tends to be triumphalist. A man admires his muscled torso; an elite believes itself to be the omphalos
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The 1970s and 1980s were a time of massive state investment in rural water development. Not only had more land to be brought under irrigation, but also drinking water supplied. These decades saw an
The official attitude towards fluoride-laced groundwater is best seen in the manner the state has gone about solutions. In a 1999 nationwide study New Delhi-based Fluorosis Research and Rural
When <i>Down To Earth</i> correspondents <font class='UCASE'>nidhi jamwal</font> and <font class='UCASE'>d b manisha</font> started filing their reports on the problem of fluoride and arsenic in groundwater, we were shocked by the extent of the problem
Fluoride is an acute toxin, with a rating slightly higher than lead. It is, in fact, one of the most bone seeking elements known to human beings. And groundwater in India shows the presence of unhealthy quantities of fluoride. A worrying scenario: daily i
Central Uttar Pradesh is literally on shaky ground. Land subsidence has been reported from several districts of the region, including Fatehpur, Farrukhabad, Kannauj and Unnao. Alarmingly, the culprit is neither seismic nor mining activity, but excessive g