Water scenario in rural areas Dependence on the state has meant that with the cost of water supply being high and cost recovery being poor, the financial sustainability of water schemes ha... |
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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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Crisis Pollution n Rivers n Groundwater n Lakes AT A GLANCE Scarcity n Urban n Rural ...... |
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In May 1992, the Society for Environmental Communications started India's only science and environment fortnightly, Down To Earth (DTE). Since then DTE has informed and inspired people a... |
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Groundwater Pollution Water markets thriving on groundwater has become a lucrative business for all those ranging from the private suppliers selling water, water tankers and the big bottled wa... |
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Inhumanly Mismanaged In India, from the 19th century onward, the paradigm of managing water has followed two interconnected routes. One, the state took upon itself the role of sole provid... |
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Inhumanly Mismanaged In India, from the 19th century onward, the paradigm of managing water has followed two interconnected routes. One, the state took upon itself the role of sole provid... |
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Damodar The Damodar is the most polluted river in the country today, thanks to the several industries that have sprouted on its mineral-rich banks. There are the coal-based industries that... |
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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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What is drought? Droughts can be of three kinds:- (i) Meteorological drought: This happens when the actual rainfall in an area is significantly less than the climatological mean of that area... |
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