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West Bengal: Naxal affected area starts solar drinking water project
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
West Midnapur (West Bengal) [India], Jan 10 (ANI): In a move that defines development, the Salboni Panchayat Samity started a string of unique projects such as solar drinking project and solar sprinkler agriculture water project in Naxal affected area of Salboni district.
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Bharat Jal launches its Maiden Water ATM's - India's gateway to clean drin
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 19 (ANI-NewsVoir): 'Clean Drinking Water' was declared as a Human Right by the UNO in the year 2010 and yet, the WHO lists it as one of the Top 10 Global Needs. Ironic as it may sound, getting access to clean drinking water in India is a privilege.
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This water test can save India from crippling bone disease
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Nov 14 (ANI): A simple colour-changing test to detect fluoride in drinking water could in the future prevent the crippling bone disease, skeletal fluorosis, in developing countries such as India and Tanzania.
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Centre deplores UN Rapporteur's comments on Mahatma Gandhi, sanitation pro
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 10 (ANI): The Central Government on Friday deplored the insensitivity towards Mahatma Gandhi shown by Leo Heller, the United Nations Special Rapporteur (UNSR) on human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation.
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FICCI's India Sanitation Coalition gets top corporate award
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct.2 (ANI): On the occasion of the third anniversary of the Swachh Bharat Mission held at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi today India Sanitation Coalition was awarded the top award in corporate category for its contribution towards the Swachh Bharat Mission on behalf of the Mi
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Hamid Ansari's wife alleges rat poison was mixed in madrassa's water coole
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 18 (ANI): Former vice president Hamid Ansari's wife Salma Ansari has alleged that two unknown people tried to mix rat poison in the drinking water cooler of the madrassa run by her.
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Limit the power sugar-sweetened beverage industry has in schools: Study
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sep 11 (ANI): A recent study has found the key factor in increased intake of sugar sweetened beverages in countries.
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Unicef India lauds Centre's approach in solving drinking water, sanit
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 19 (ANI): A Unicef India official on Wednesday lauded the Centre's approach towards solving issues concerning lack of drinking water and sanitation, saying the transparency and openness with stakeholders will be beneficial towards undertaking innovative measures.
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2.1 billion people lack safe drinking water at home, more than twice as ma
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland]/New York[United States], July 13 (ANI): Some three in ten people worldwide, or 2.1 billion, lack access to safe, readily available water at home, and 6 in 10, or 4.5 billion, lack safely managed sanitation, according to a new report by WHO and UNICEF.
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Exempt beedi, granite industry from GST: Telangana CM to Centre
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Telangana [India], June 16, (ANI): Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley requesting to exempt the works that are covered under beedi industry, granite industry, irrigation and drinking wate
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Bangladesh flood victims starving
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Dhaka[Bangladesh], June 6 (ANI): Flood victims in Bangladesh's Moulvibazar may be forced to starve as they are yet to receive relief materials after flash floods in April have destroyed embankments and roads, leaving more than 100,000 people marooned without sufficient food and drinkin
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NGT issues notice to Yogi Govt. over groundwater contamination
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Sambhal (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 31 (ANI): The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday has issued notice to Uttar Pradesh pollution control board and District Magistrate of Sambhal, on a plea citing concern over drinking water of being heavily contaminated.
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