Unprecedental levels of antibiotics pollute India’s water

A vast array of antibiotics such as ciproflaxin, enoacin, cetirizine, terbinafine and citalopram have been found in India’s streams, lakes, and well waters, close to pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities.  The water is used by many villagers for farming and drinking purposes, heightening worries of long-term consequences to animal and human health.
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Crackdown on ‘Water Thieves’ in Tripura

The title says it all!  I am sure ‘Water Thieves’ exist all over the country. But, due to corruption at various levels, they get away with their crime.  With our country on the verge of a severe water crisis, it is about time that authorities crack down on people who illegally tap the water.  
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India keen to address water resource challenge

Union Water Resources Minister Professor Saifuddin Soz said the India is making serious efforts to address numerous challenges in water resources sector with due emphasis on the sustainability of the eco-system in the larger interests of mankind. Inaugurating the International Conference on Water, Environment, Energy and Society (WEES-2009) in New Delhi, Soz said population growth [...]

Rs 4.62 cr for drinking water facilities to primitive tribes

Funds to the tune of Rs four crore 62 lakh will be made available under Conservation-cum-Development Scheme for providing drinking water facility in the areas predominant by Saharia and Baiga primitive tribes during the year 2008-09. The Madhya Pradesh state government has instructed the concerning Agencies that the work of selection of places, where hand [...]

India: Water Purifiers: How women fight arsenic contamination

 
zSahidun Bewa, 30, toils hard, making one arsenic filter after another with fine-tuned precision at Bara Andulia village in Nadia district, West Bengal. She earns Rs 100 (US$1=Rs50) per filter. Sahidun is not driven by the money but by the acute awareness that each filter can save up to five lives, on an average. Arsenic [...]

Clemson scientists to help rural India solve water shortages

India is a long way from Clemson, but they have a problem with rain, too: There’s not enough. While the state of Madhya Pradesh in India gets about as much rain as South Carolina, it comes only during three months of the year. What to do for the rest of the year? Read more at http://www.independentmail.com/news/2008/dec/13/clemson-scientists-help-rural-india-solve-water-sh/

Once upon a time this was a lake

Janagere, Arishinakunte, Challakere, Nagarabhavi, Bheemasamudra, Chamarajasagara (TG Halli), all have the lake or tank connection. Karnataka state is dotted with hundreds of such namesake tanks and lakes. A whopping 1233 villages were named after a kere (tank) or kunte,  (pond) according to the revenue transactions of the year 1854, as per the erstwhile Revenue Department [...]

India quakes over China’s water plan

Even as India and China are yet to resolve their decades-old territorial dispute, another conflict is looming. China’s diversion of the waters of a river originating in Tibet to its water-scarce areas could leave India’s northeast parched. The river in question is the Brahmaputra, which begins in southwestern Tibet where it is known as the Yalong Tsangpo River. [...]