Fluorosis-hit villages caught in red tape

While more villages in UP's Unnao district are gripped by fluorosis each year, the state's ground water board remains entangled in bureaucratic …

Pumping iron

The training of women in the maintenance of hand-pumps has not only flooded them with confidence, it has rescued a government water supply …

Where the water is

Engineers in Jaipur are developing a software that would help quench the thirst of parched villages

New Hampshire battles against oil giants

New Hampshire has become the first state in the US to take on oil giants such as ExxonMobil and ChevronTexaco over widespread contamination of …

"Over 15 per cent of Russia is ecologically unsafe"

Professor Alexei Yablokov is head of the inter-departmental commission for ecological security under Russia's National Security Council. He …

4 out of 10 rural households travel every day for drinking water

10.5 per cent rural households spend over 30 minutes to get water every day

Rainwater harvesting aids tsunami-hit Sri Lankan villages

Radioactive gas in drinking water

Toxic rain

New light on water disinfection

With a simple modification, ordinary tubelights can be used to provide clean drinking water.

Water supply faulted

Don't blame it, on, nature

South korea

Toxic water

Bangladeshis may still be drinking arsenic-laced water

VIETNAM

RIVER CONTAMINATION

Diluting standards

George W Bush does it again. This time by diluting drinking water regulations

All the water they need

Rainwater harvesting is catching on in a big way in Kochi

Drink this

Bhopal tragedy victims to get water supply 20 years too late

Dangerous

Farmers oppose Tamil Nadu government's new project

Iron out arsenic

For a few dollars more

Developing countries immunised 80 per cent of their children by 1990 and saved millions of lives. But 35,000 children, under five years of age, …

Are some humans more equal?

A recent study suggests that poor nations will have to do with more arsenic in water. A rebuttal by the arsenic and medical group, School of …

Life in a radiation zone

A recent accident shows why workers’ safety at atomic facilities is extremely fragile

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