5 Mar 2003 5 minute read
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... 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 ...
5 Mar 2003 4 minute read
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... A multitude of stories and strategies from India. www.waternz.co.nz Industry initiative concentrating ...
5 Mar 2003 3 minute read
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... on it. 1 Aquifers are most severely depleted in parts of India, China, the US, North Africa and the Middle East. It ...
5 Mar 2003 2 minute read
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5 Mar 2003 10 minute read
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... 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 ...
5 Mar 2003 5 minute read
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... 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 ...
2 Nov 2002 11 minute read
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5 Sep 2002 11 minute read
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... for the biotechnology companies to pick. A remedy from India, where I grew up, comes to mind. The neem tree's ...
2 Sep 2002 11 minute read
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... for the biotechnology companies to pick. A remedy from India, where I grew up, comes to mind. The neem tree’s ...
5 Jun 2002 12 minute read
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... Radhakrishna Rao, writes that ‘health workers in India speak of how males have worn condoms on their thumbs or ... control the manufacture of ARVs. Countries like Brazil and India are on the front line of this battle. But the ... programme is now. Already the virus is racing through India, China, Russia and Eastern Europe. The AIDS historian, ...