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Most of India's rural poor live in rain-fed areas where agricultural productivity is low. In Karnataka-one of India's driest states-the World Bank is helping to revive centuries-old tank systems to improve farm productivity and raise incomes. Read More

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Videos related to the construction and use of the treated, improved dugwells in the arsenic prone villages of West Bengal in India to provide arsenic safe water.

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This document by the World Health Organisation is a guide for the onset of national efforts to assess, select and develop alternative strategies to Persistent Organic Pollutants (PO

This report by the World Health Organisation provides a structured approach to analysing hazards to groundwater quality, assessing the risk they may cause for a specific supply, setting priorities in addressing these

Fluoride is one of the very few chemicals that has been shown to cause significant effects in people through drinking-water. Fluoride has beneficial effects on teeth at low concentrations in drinking-water, but excessive exposure to fluoride in drinking-water, or in combination with exposure to fluoride from other sources, can give rise to a number of adverse effects.

The purpose of this document is to provide information on household water treatment using seeds of the Moringa oleifera tree. Solutions of Moringa seeds for water treatment may be prepared from seed kernels or from the solid residue left over after oil extraction (presscake).

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Forwarded to the Portal by: B. R. Neupane, UNESCO The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) invites you to send in articles of up to three pages (about 1200 words) on traditional water harvesting structures, that link water resources management with local culture. It will select a maximum of 6 of these articles for publication in the magazine Power of Creativity, a high-quality photo-based magazine. The magazine was launched in November 2007 to promote Indian culture, creativity, and innovation in the context of sustainable development. It is a joint publication of UNESCO and the Archeological Society of India. The target audience is urban middle class Indians and the objective to make them aware of the fact that their traditions are compatible with modern, style conscious lifestyles. Power of Creativity has a print run of 5,000 copies that are circulated to the government, embassies, consulates, the tourism sector, and the corporate sector. UNESCO will acknowledge and credit the author(s). Each article must be accompanied by photographs, preferably digital, high-resolution photos and can be sent by email to b.neupane@unesco.org or nitya.jacob@un.org.in by 31 May 2009.