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 provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
what a waste: For the past two months, 11-year-old Tsheten Dorji is being treated for third-degree burns he received from chemical waste dumped by factories in Balujhora in Bhutan's Pasakha town. The town residents complain that factories dumped waste very near residential areas. "Children are always playing about the site. …
function maps() { var popurl="files/images/20060515/42-map.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=300,height=350,scrollbars=yes") } The residents of Aizawl are taking to piped water in a big way. The town, once a model for urban rainwater harvesting practices, is now looking for water from the rivers in the valley. The city’s uniquely different topographic setup has added to …
Veznova, Belarus Natasha Popova, 12, and Vadim Kuleshov, 8. Natasha was born with microcephaly; her head is too small. Vadim has a bone disease and is also mentally retarded Gomel, Belarus Annya Pesenko has a brain tumour. She was born in Zakoptye, a village which was heavily contaminated, and ultimately …
a significant increase in freshwater flowing into the Arctic Ocean is heightening concern about climate change. A team of Russian and us scientists has found that Siberia's Lena river, the world's ninth largest watershed, empties 10 per cent more water into the Arctic than it did 60 years ago. This …
The 26 December 2004 tsunami caused widespread destruction and contamination of coastal aquifers across southern Asia. Seawater filled domestic open dug wells and also entered the aquifers via direct infiltration during the first flooding waves and later as ponded seawater infiltrated through the permeable sands that are typical of coastal …
The Himachal Pradesh Government has submitted an ambitious Rs 1,800-crore project for the ecological, sustainable and integrated development of the Pong wetland in Kangra district to the Ministry of Forests and Environment, Government of India, for approval. The wetland had attained international recognition due to its bird sanctuary and was …
In the 1960s, two of the world's best-known biologists collaborated to propose a theory that was to revolutionise the world of ecology and, later, conservation. Robert Macarthur, a geographical ecologist, and Edward Wilson, famous for his work on insect societies, wrote a monograph on the theory of island biogeography. This …
dhaka protests: Bangladesh recently lodged an official protest with India claiming that it had received much less water from the Ganga river than was agreed upon during the Farakka talks. Dhaka said it was receiving about 283 cubic metres per second (cu m/s) less water on average as compared to …
In January 2006, two farmers of Alur village in Chamaranjanagar of Karnataka won an unprecedented consumer case, in which water supply authorities were held guilty of negligent services in providing dam water to consumers. The duo was awarded very meager compensation for their losses , but it proved to be …
It isn’t everyday that a villages turns down a state government offer to provide drinking water. Kameana, a village in Faridkot district of Punjab, has done exactly that. The government has tried for long to build waterworks to cater to Kameana, but the villagers have resisted. And the project’s fate …
The government announced vigorous rain water harvesting campaign across the country to beat the summer onslaught. "Rain water is a major source of water. To conserve that, we are making efforts to carry out a vigorous campaign', Union water resources minister Saifuddin Soz said at the 12th Women's political empowerment …
The Uttar Pradesh Government on Monday refused to provide water to Delhi's Sonia Vihar water treatment plant claiming the State itself is reeling under an acute water shortage due to a cut in supply from Tehri dam. ''Uttar Pradesh will not supply water for the Sonia Vihar project unless water …
A British water company found guilty of overcharging millions of pounds from customers in Europe, is set to take over the management of Kathmandu's water supply. The company, Severn Trent Water, will take over from the Nepal Water Supply Corporation. It was the sole company left after three other companies …
Asit K Biswas, an India-born Canadian, has bagged the prestigious 2006 Stockholm Water Prize for challenging the global status quo on water. At present he is the president of the Mexico-based Third World Centre for Water Management. Biswas is widely acclaimed for his contributions to global water resource issues, including …
the humble coir may soon help treat domestic wastewater. Arakkal Praveen, a lecturer at the Government Engineering College, Thrissur, Kerala, has developed a biofilter made of coir, which can be attached to a septic tank. Called
construction work on the Sardar Sarovar Project (ssp) on the river Narmada has resumed after two-years. On March 8, 2006, the Narmada Control Authority (nca) cleared an increase of 11.28 metres in the Narmada dam's height
the water level of Africa's Lake Victoria, the second largest freshwater lake in the world, has dropped dramatically by two metres in the last 45 years. Though drought has been largely blamed for this dip, a closer look by environmentalists and politicians in Uganda points to a new culprit: the …
The inland waterways authority of India will spend about Rs 300 crore this year to meke three national watrers fully functional . the work is expected to be completed by 2008. the three water ways are in Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Kerala.
