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India's Tata launches low-cost water filter for rural poorMumbai (AFP) Dec 7, 2009 India's giant Tata Group on Monday unveiled a new low-cost water purifier, hoping to do for health what it did for motoring and provide affordable, safe drinking water for millions and cut disease. The Tata Swach -- named after the Hindi for "clean" -- is designed to be used in poor, rural households that have no electricity or running water, using ash from rice milling to filter out ... read more |
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Los Banos, Philippines (AFP) Dec 5, 2009Asian rice farmers typically do not fly around the world on holidays or own big-engine cars but scientists say they have an important role to play in helping cut the world's output of greenhouse gases. While much of the globe's focus in the climate change fight is on the burning of fossil fuels and the logging of rainforests, water-logged rice paddies are also a major source of global ... more  
Kathmandu (AFP) Dec 6, 2009More than a billion people in Asia depend on Himalayan glaciers for water, but experts say they are melting at an alarming rate, threatening to bring drought to large swathes of the continent. Glaciers in the Himalayas, a 2,400-kilometre (1,500-mile) range that sweeps through Pakistan, India, China, Nepal and Bhutan, provide headwaters for Asia's nine largest rivers, lifelines for the 1.3 ... more 
London (AFP) Dec 6, 2009As world leaders grapple with how to tackle climate change in Copenhagen next week, England's winegrowers are embarrassed to admit that global warming is suiting them rather well. This year's crop has been one of the best yet, with a record three million bottles produced -- twice the average production of the past five years -- and producers think the changing climate is the cause. ... more |
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Mumbai (AFP) Dec 3, 2009One person died and many were injured in a violent protest Thursday against cuts in water supplies in India's financial capital following the worst monsoon rains since 1972, a report said. A crowd of about 3,000 people demonstrated outside municipal headquarters in Mumbai demanding an easing of the 30-percent cut in supplies for many parts of the city of 18 million people, the Press Trust of ... more 
Sydney (AFP) Dec 3, 2009The rotting carcasses of thousands of wild camels who have died of thirst in Australia's desert Outback are polluting vital waterholes and sacred sites, a report said Thursday. The Central Land Council, which administers Aboriginal land in the nation's arid centre, said the corpses were poisoning water supplies, describing scenes of mass carnage. "Some fall into waterholes and won't be a ... more 
Sydney (AFP) Dec 3, 2009Authorities were trucking water into drought-hit Australian towns Thursday, with supply in some places trickling to as little as eight hours, officials said. Severe water restrictions were declared across much of south-eastern Queensland state, with critical shortages in the hinterland towns of Blackwater and Maleny. Further inland the farming town of Dalby had just hours of supply left, ... more |
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