CHENNAI: Even as Tamil Nadu and Karnataka continue to lock horns over the Rs 1,334-crore Hogenakkal Water Supply and Fluorosis Mitigation Programme, the state government here is moving ahead of schedule to ensure that the scheme for water-starved Dharmapuri and Krishnagiri districts is completed by 2012. In a significant development towards implementing the much-awaited water […]
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INDIA : Water Privatisation – ‘No Need For Costly Consultants’
JAMSHEDPUR, Jharkhand state, Oct 24 (IPS) – The Indian corporate conglomerate, Tata, says it is ready to provide water services in this vast country and also prove that privatisation does not have to involve expensive foreign consultants and providers. The Jamshedpur Utilities and Services Company (JUSCO), a Tata subsidiary based in this s 104-year-old steel […]
Hindalco aluminum plant damaged crops
SAMBALPUR, Oct. 8: More than 140 acres of paddy fields with standing crop got damaged after severe rain on the 18th of last month. Farmers of Gundurupada, Nua Jamada, Nua Gujatal, close to Hirakud township, alleged that fluoride gas from the Hindalco plant producing aluminium from alumina was responsible from the crop damage. The reports […]
Delhi among 19 states facing ground water contamination
Besides a rapidly depleting groundwater table, the country faces another major problem on the water front — groundwater contamination — a problem which has affected as many as 19 states, including Delhi. The geogenic contaminants, including salinity, iron, fluoride and arsenic have affected groundwater in over 200 districts spread across 19 states, which includes Delhi. […]
Pension hiked to fluoride-hit victims
HYDERABAD: Kindling light into the lives of physically challenged persons from fluoride-affected areas, Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy announced a major hike in their pension. Those with 40 per cent handicap and getting Rs 200 pension currently, will receive Rs 500 pension from November. Similarly, fluoride victims who are completely handicapped and cannot work will […]
Anbumani seeks Karnataka support on Hogenakkal project
Bangalore (PTI): Union Health Minister Dr Anbumani Ramadoss on Tuesday appealed to the people of Karnataka to support the Hogenakkal Drinking Water project, being executed by Tamil Nadu. “I appeal to the people of Karnataka not to politicise the Hogenakkal issue. It is a health issue and not a political one,” Ramadoss said while speaking […]
Fluorosis in many parts of the country
Excerpt from article titled: Health for all a long way away Luxury of water Clean drinking water is a luxury for about 75 per cent of the world’s rural population and about 150 million urban dwellers. According to WHO figures, 220 million Indians do not have access to safe drinking water, and about one million […]
The Hogenakkal water project
BANGALORE: Even as the tension over Rajnikant’s Kuselan died down, following the actor’s apology to Kannadigas , the government on Thursday said an all-party delegation will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to impress upon him the state’s claims regarding the land dispute between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Water resources minister Basavaraj Bommai said a 67-km […]
MDG and India’s drinking water: racing ahead at what cost?
India has committed to the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals (MDG), officially adopted in 2002 by 189 countries. The eight MDGs range from halving, by 2015, extreme poverty to ensuring environmental sustainability. Progress is being actively tracked. It is within the goal of environmental sustainability that the issue of drinking-water and sanitation has come into […]
Thar desert among areas facing endemic fluorosis: PCSIR experts
HYDERABAD, June 7 (APP): Thar Desert area of Sindh province is among Pakistan’s areas which are experiencing endemic fluorosis on regional scale. Muhammad Tahir Rafique, Senior Scientific Officer, Pakistan Council of Scientific Industrial Research (PCSIR) Karachi said here Friday defending his Ph.D thesis “Occurrence, Distribution and Origin of Fluoride-Rich Groundwater in the Thar Desert, Pakistan,” […]