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Water: Every Drop Counts

Please find below the link of the episode of "Satyamev Jayate" telecast on 22nd July, 2012 on National Channel, Star TV. The theme of the episode was "Water: Every Drop Counts" hosted by

Water woes: Tales of wastage, apathy

New Delhi, July 5, 2012: After HT exposed water mismanagement at the hands of the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) staff, the board is receiving brickbats from all quarters. The chief minister has asked the DJB CEO to be more vigilant. Experts too have condemned the board for wasting potable water. H

Delhi’s Water Woes Make the Heat Worse

New Delhi, July 5, 2012: This summer, with historic highs in temperature, has been the cruelest in decades here in the capital. But it is the debilitating cuts in water supply that have made the heat particularly unbearable.

Dredged silt drips back into Yamuna

New Delhi, June 28, 2012: The recent dredging exercise at the Okhla barrage to deepen the Okhla pond was welcomed by environmentalists till they figured out that all the silt pulled out was being dumped along the banks and allowed to flow downstream with the river. "For one thing, it is a complete waste of money and time to desilt the river and then allow the silt to flow back into it. For another, the silt would have contained high levels of toxins considering how polluted the river is, so it was the government's responsibility to ensure that it was dumped at a safe location," said Manoj Mishra of Yamuna Jiye Abhiyaan.

Brush with the city

A city is like a stage where a multitude of acts are played out every minute, every second and every fraction of that second. There are layers and layers that envelop it and an inquisitive artist likes to peel off these layers in his/ her quest to examine, explore and engage with it.

E-Waste Law: New Paradigm or Business as Usual?

The new e-waste rules notified by the government are an important step forward. However, loopholes which allow producers to evade their responsibility and the informal sector to evade environmental and health controls need to be addressed. It is also important to create mass awareness and make it easier for the consumer to dispose e-waste. Policy should encourage cooperation rather than competition between those responsible for disposing e-waste.

Leaky pipes compound Delhi's water crisis

As Delhi and Haryana exchange heated words over water scarcity in the states, the solution to the crisis might lie in better water management by the states.

India Grapples With Garbage

Vilappisala, June 6, 2012: "We tell friends planning to visit us to follow the stench of rotting garbage," says Jeevaratnam (one name), a homemaker in this village 16 km from Kerala state’s capital of Thiruvananthapuram.

Delhi’s fight against a waste processing unit

New Delhi, June 5, 2012: A controversy over a waste-to-energy plant has seen residents pitted against the government since 2007. When fully operational in a few months, the plant will burn up over 2,000 metric tonnes of the city's solid waste to generate 16MW of power. Ostensibly dealing with two of Delhi's biggest issues, waste disposal and power, the plant found itself in the eye of a storm. Residents from a number of colonies in the plant's vicinity opposed it on the grounds that the plant would expose residents to major health hazards.

Disappearing sparrows: Common bird goes uncommon

New Delhi, May 10, 2012: Gone are days when house sparrows were the most common birds amongst bird species in India. The chirpy sounds made by these small birds are rarely heard today; and their absence, even though tiny, is increasingly becoming noticeable. Due to decrease in numbers, a bird as common as the sparrow was included by the IUCN in its Red Data List of threatened species in 2002 alongside the glamorous snow leopard, tiger and red panda.

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