Mostly muck Urban lakes in India are dirty and dying Udaipur Udaipur city, Rajasthan, is surrounded by the Aravalli hills and five lakes Pichola, Fatehsagar, Rangsagar, Swaroopsag... |
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Rivers India's fourteen major, 55 minor and several hundred small rivers receive millions of litres of sewage, industrial and agricultural wastes. Most of these rivers have been degraded to s ... |
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Urban water scenario Even though the rate of urbanisation in India is among the lowest in the world, the nation has more than 250 million city-dwellers. Experts predict that this number w... |
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... technical-grade insecticides annually to cover 182.5 million hectare of its land. Most Indian rivers pass through agricultural ar ... |
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The River Damodar The river Damodar is polluted with minerals, mine rejects and toxic effluents. Both its water and its sand are infested by coal dust and waste from industries that have sprun... |
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Damodar 2003 10 years after it investigated the condition of the Damodar, Down To Earth revisits the river basin. Travelling through a heavily industrialised belt rich in minerals, MANOJ NADKAR... |
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Promising Water Politicians do more to deplete water than provide people a sustained supply At the recent meeting of the World Water Commission in Stockholm set up last year with th... |
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Crisis Pollution n Rivers n Groundwater n Lakes AT A GLANCE Scarcity n Urban n Rural Water Speak SEE ...... |
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Anil Agarwal It was a meeting with an amazing lesson. The subject was rainwater harvesting. But the message was one on governance. And a truly stark one. If only India could learn from it... |
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Industry at any cost (This article first appeared in Down To Earth, April 15, 2000) Maharashtra and Gujarat. The brightest jewels in Indias industrial crown. But impressive indus... |
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