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5 Mar 2003 5 minute read

This article is almost 17 years old.

Harvesting The Raindrop

... villages located in the worst droughtaffected regions of India had coped with yet another year of belowaverage ... droughts be called natural disasters? Not any more. Not in India. They are 'government-made' disasters. Over the past ... world, rainfall is variable and rainy days are few. In India, for instance, 50 per cent of the rain falls on about ...

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5 Mar 2003 5 minute read

This article is almost 17 years old.

Big Dams, Big Trouble

... and corrupt bureaucracy. A growing movement, especially in India, but also in many other parts of the world, is now ... The first is just to use electricity more efficiently. In India, as much as half the electricity generated is lost ... estimate that big dams contribute less than 10 per cent to India’s grain production: Power Politics (South End Press ...

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5 Mar 2003 4 minute read

This article is almost 17 years old.

... - can do the clinical tests. So far, Thailand, Brazil, India and Malaysia have said that they'll provide laboratories and scientists. Brazil and India have some manufacturing capacity. As for Singapore, ... After talking to all private pharmaceutical companies in India, these companies have agreed to produce selected ...

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5 Mar 2003 10 minute read

This article is almost 17 years old.

... hub of 1.5 million inhabitants located atop central India's Deccan plateau. It's where I grew up. There has been ... forth grandiose schemes to engineer water supplies to India's thirsty cities, complete with political rhetoric ... and profligacy by persistently poisoning our water. In India, where water is considered sacred, the notion that it ...

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5 Mar 2003 2 minute read

This article is almost 17 years old.

From Dawn To Dusk Droought Means Hard Work

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5 Mar 2003 8 minute read

This article is almost 17 years old.

Running Out Of Water, Running Out Of Time

... aggrieved parties usually come to the bargaining table. India and Pakistan honoured their water agreements even while ... they twice went to war with each other. In one instance, India even paid a water-related fine to Pakistan while war ...

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5 Mar 2003 4 minute read

This article is almost 17 years old.

... A multitude of stories and strategies from India. www.waternz.co.nz Industry initiative concentrating ...

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5 Mar 2003 3 minute read

This article is almost 17 years old.

... on it. 1 Aquifers are most severely depleted in parts of India, China, the US, North Africa and the Middle East. It ...

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