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Covid-19 and water security in India: Magnifying inequities in an unequal world
Posted on 25 Apr, 2020 01:44 PM
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Global infections from water poised to rise with climate change
Posted on 24 Apr, 2020 04:11 PMClimate change triggered heat waves threaten water availability
Ninjallama rues as she remembers, " It was a terrible summer. The heat wave was killing. Three people died in my village. People with skeletal fluorosis suffered .. "
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Providing safe drinking water, in difficult times!
Posted on 24 Apr, 2020 03:36 PMPiramal Sarvajal, seeded by the Piramal Foundation in 2008, is a mission driven social enterprise which designs and deploys innovative solutions for creating affordable access to safe drinking water in underserved areas.
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Covid-19: Survey on hand washing
Posted on 24 Apr, 2020 02:30 PMA hand washing survey is being conducted by SIGMA Foundation, a not for profit society, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The objective is to know about handwashing practices being followed across different sections of the society in India.
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Facing up to the water crisis
Posted on 24 Apr, 2020 11:58 AMThe conventional freshwater sources available in India are being currently overexploited, leading to widespread environmental degradation and depletion of freshwater resources especially groundwater. To sustain the needs of an increasing population and ecology, our consumption of water far exceeds the rate at which we are recharging water sources.
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COVID-19 Series: Strategic Approaches for Funders
Posted on 23 Apr, 2020 06:12 PMWith COVID-19 there seem to be more questions than answers, particularly for funders who want to respond effectively and efficiently.
Gearing to overcome water quality woes
Posted on 21 Apr, 2020 05:22 PMIndia has the most people in the world without access to safe drinking water (133.9 million). Many studies indicate that poor and marginalized populations are the worst affected from waterborne diseases resulting from the consumption of contaminated water.
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Vulnerable, in the time of Covid-19!
Posted on 21 Apr, 2020 09:30 AMThe Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc worldwide and India continues to be in the line of fire. While cases continue to rise, India is also experiencing a crisis of another kind, that of the lockdown affecting the livelihoods of a large number of workers from the informal sector.
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Springing back to life
Posted on 20 Apr, 2020 11:45 PMSprings are the key source of water for rural households in Uttarakhand, yet they have seen an overall neglect over the decades with discharge from many springs declining bit by bit. The depletion of aquifers, changes in land use and ecological degradation have led to several initiatives to address springshed management in the state. We speak to Dr.
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We are all fools
Posted on 19 Apr, 2020 04:05 PMWhich industry has seen phenomenal growth since World War II? It is food. People have been encouraged to eat more and more as part of the general consumerist thrust to increase consumption. So, the moment people's incomes have gone up they have begun consuming more food along with other things. The economy can grow only if we consume more. This is why we also have to eat more.
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