Waste Disposal

High risk

Problem: Tall buildings risky in high seismic zones; Status: Hill stations are getting concretised and growing vertically; Challenge: Use local construction material; regulate traffic

Publication Date:

29/09/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20040930

pp:

0

Tags:

Ecotourism, Mountains, Nilgiri, North East, Western Ghats, Water Resources, Ooty, Development, Landslides, Sanitation, Waste Disposal, Tourism, Panchayats, India, Himachal Pradesh

India

View from the top

Planners must stop looking down at hill stations

Publication Date:

29/09/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20040930

pp:

0

Tags:

Ecotourism, Mountains, Nilgiri, North East, Western Ghats, Water Resources, Ooty, Development, Landslides, Sanitation, Waste Disposal, Tourism, Panchayats, India, Himachal Pradesh

Water Resources

Water supply is all

What about the sewage that makes Kovalam beach stink?

Publication Date:

30/08/2004

Author(s): R K Srinivasan

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

River Pollution, Water Resources, Sewage, Waste Disposal, India, Kerala

Agriculture

Popular medicine

Farmers say no to Ranbaxy expansion plans

Publication Date:

30/08/2004

Author(s): Vikas Parashar

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20040831

pp:

0

Tags:

Agriculture, Water Resources, Waste Disposal, Farmers, Drug Industry, Biotechnology, Legislation, Supreme Court, Himachal Pradesh

India

Faith s filth

Waste of pilgrims threatens Pahalgam s ecology

Publication Date:

14/08/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Ecology, Religious Places, Waste Disposal, Jammu & Kashmir

Water Resources

Violent homecoming

10,000 families from Delhi s Yamuna Pushta slums were resettled in Bawana this March. NIDHI JAMWAL went to meet them

Publication Date:

30/07/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Water Resources, Slums, Sanitation, Waste Disposal, Rehabilitation, Planning, Delhi

India

People s show of strength

Outpouring of resentment against landfill site plan in Tamil Nadu leaves authorities stunned

Publication Date:

30/05/2004

Author(s): E Vijayalakshmi

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Waste Disposal, Public Participation, Panchayats, India, Tamil Nadu, Kanchipuram, Toxic Wastes

India

West s waste

Bbc, Earth Files According to an investigation by bbc's Earth Files programme, computer waste is being dumped in developing nations in contravention of the Basel Convention. And the two most

Publication Date:

29/04/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Waste Disposal, Hazardous Products, China, India, Computers

Habitat And Urbanisation