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Tackling fluorosis by following Nalgonda's lead
Engaging with the fluorosis problem in Nalgonda gave the FKAN a chance to understand the problem and apply the solutions nationally.
Fluoride Knowledge and Action Network
Posted on 15 Apr, 2018 04:21 PM

Fluorosis continues to be a regional issue in Telangana to this day, even decades after the first cases were discovered in Nalgonda in 1937. More than three lakh people in the district are affected with skeletal and dental fluorosis, a stigma that has stuck for generations.
Shifting to non-fluoride affected food and increased nutrients is necessary to deal with fluorosis (Image: Fluoride Knowledge and Action Network)
Saving Jhabua’s children from fluorosis
INREM Foundation’s work helped develop protocols on designing proactive action on safe water and nutrition to help mitigate fluorosis in Jhabua.
Fluoride Knowledge and Action Network
Posted on 13 Apr, 2018 09:03 PM

In 2010, nine-year-old Kailash from Miyati village, Jhabua developed symptoms of skeletal fluorosis. Fluorosis, which affects millions of people in India, is a health issue caused due to high fluoride content in drinking water. Skeletal fluorosis is marked by deformed bones.
Nutrition garden developed in Jhabua for sustainable nutrition and resistance from fluorosis among villagers.
Yak faces threat of climate change
Nomads are beginning to notice increasing heat stress among yaks in the Indian Himalayas.
Dinesh C. Sharma
Posted on 12 Apr, 2018 11:37 AM

Yak--the lifeline of pastoral nomads in high altitudes of the Indian Himalayan region--is facing the threat of gradually rising temperatures in the region. 
Yaks are used to very cold temperature and exhibits heat stress when the temperature increases. (Source: IWP Flickr photos)
Power play chokes Korba
The video tells the story of residents of Korba and nearby villages who are affected by the fly ash from power plants which makes Korba the fifth critically polluted area in the country.
Makarand Purohit
Posted on 11 Apr, 2018 02:05 PM

Korba in Chhattisgarh is an industrial area which has a significant number of coal mines and thermal power plants. Fly ash is a byproduct of the thermal power plants and has become a significant problem for the residents of Korba now.
Fly-ash dust at CSEB thermal power plant in Korba.
There’s no better gift, Daan Toilet!
Assam’s Jorhat district inches closer to being open defecation-free, thanks to a novel initiative by the administration.
Pranjal Sarma
Posted on 11 Apr, 2018 11:49 AM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pet project, Swachh Bharat that envisages an open defecation-free India by the year 2019 has witnessed many local administrations take drastic measures to get people to b
Baghmoria resident Bitul Gogoi poses in front of a newly constructed ‘Daan' toilet donated by Dr Richa Agarwala of Jorhat.
Down in the dumps: Delhi’s waste pickers’ saga
A study by Action India provides insight into Delhi’s recycling nightmare and its unacknowledged waste pickers.
Amita Bhaduri
Posted on 10 Apr, 2018 04:05 PM

Eight-year-old Meera (name changed) got ill after eating filthy food remains from a dump at Mansarovar park in Delhi. Children like her work in filthy environments, rummaging through hazardous waste with bare hands and feet. They play in these dumping ground strewn with syringes, scrap iron, rotting waste, solid and liquid household waste.  
Waste pickers face harrowing occupational hazards and are exposed to toxins in the absence of protective gear. (Image: Ted Mathys, 2009)
East Kolkata Wetlands found to trap sewage carbon
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Seetha Gopalakrishnan
Posted on 10 Apr, 2018 10:21 AM

East Kolkata Wetlands found to lock down over 60 percent carbon from the wastewater it receives
Fishermen rear fish in wastewater from the wetlands.
SC slams Centre on Cauvery water sharing
Policy matters this week
Seetha Gopalakrishnan
Posted on 10 Apr, 2018 10:08 AM

Apex court seeks draft on Cauvery management scheme by May 3
Supreme Court seeks report from Centre on Cauvery issue. (Picture courtesy: NDTV)
Nanomaterial from seaweed can clean toxic water
A team of scientists have synthesised graphene-iron sulfide nanocomposite from abundantly found seaweed Ulva fasciata through direct pyrolysis technique.
Dinesh C. Sharma
Posted on 08 Apr, 2018 09:02 PM

Treatment of wastewater containing industrial dyes and toxic heavy metals is a major environmental problem as available treatment techniques are not very efficient and environment-friendly. Now a team of Indian scientists has developed a nanomaterial drawn from seaweed for effective treatment of toxic wastewater without using any chemicals.
The team of scientists who developed the nanomaterial.
Seven reasons why Bengaluru can still run out of water
Citizen Matters looks at what the city should do to manage its water better.
Nagesh Aras
Posted on 05 Apr, 2018 03:20 PM

A recent BBC report projected that Bengaluru will run out of water soon.
Image courtesy bwssb.org
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