Naseema Akhtar, 38, worries that her daily treks to collect clean water from the mountain springs around her village of Bonpora, in Kashmir’s Kupwara district, are getting longer. She is already doing more than seven km every day. "The higher up you go, the cleaner the water is likely to be, but there is a limit to how far one can climb to fetch a pitcher of water," she told IPS....
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Rural health mission falls sick by Sulogna Mehta
A tank to supply drinking water has been under construction in a tribal village in Adilabad for the last 10 years. It still remains incomplete. The healthcare system and basic infrastructural facilities such as drinking water and sanitation are in pathetic state in rural and tribal areas, leading to high infant and maternal mortality rates, though Rs Rs 1,130 crore had been allocated by the Centre as National Rural Health Mission...
More »Investing in water, sanitation as important as in defence: Jairam by K Balchand
Proposes inter-ministry contribution for prioritising the issues Union Minister of Rural Development Jairam Ramesh has presented a plan to various Central ministries to contribute to the cause of drinking water and sanitation, saying that investment for a healthy population was as important as investing for defence. Mr. Ramesh, who also holds the Drinking Water and Sanitation portfolio, on Tuesday had his proposals ratified at the National Drinking Water and Sanitation Council which...
More »Food safety: soapy milk, toxic apples
-The Financial Express Bhim can't understand what he's done wrong. Before dawn every day he joins hundreds of wholesale traders at Delhi's Azadpur Mandi, a sprawling, chaotic market where trucks blare Bollywood music, porters haul huge brown sacks of fruit and vegetables and hawkers ply tea and cigarettes. His own trade is in rosy red apples, laced with calcium carbide. Bhim says he's been adding chemicals to his apples for years to artificially ripen...
More »Call to boycott London Olympics over Dow role
-The Hindu Some of the country's most prominent para-athletes, Bhopal gas leak victims and campaigners have called on the Union Government to boycott the upcoming London Olympics unless Dow Chemical is dropped as sponsor. “All Indian para-athletes should boycott London Paralympics-2012 until Dow Chemical is dropped as a sponsor. The Indian Olympics Association and the Sports Ministry of India should show much stronger protests against this sponsorship,” said Haryana Paralympic Association secretary...
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