Tulsi can detoxify fluoridated water | Deccan Chronicle

As I read this News Item, I tried to speak with the Faculty of Sardar Patel Mahavidyalaya, Chandrapur, Maharashtra Phone: 07172 - 255778, 271599(Lib) , Phone No. (MBA) 263046, Phone No. (MCA) 272813, Web: http://www.spcollegechandrapur.ac.in - to congratulate them on their great discovery.

01) The Email: spmchd@sancharnet.in as given on their above website returns a stock message that it has a fatal error, as in case of many Academic Institutions, whose published Email IDs never work. 

02) Ku.K.S.Raipurkar, HoD, Environmental Science of Sardar Patel Mahavidyalaya, rudely, disconnected my call, thrice, for reasons best known to her and they don't have any direct landline.

Also wouldn't respond to a polite SMS request to let me know her / her department's Email ID.

03) My attempt to get the phone number of Shri. R.K.Kamble, Sr. Faculty of Environment of Sardar Patel Mahavidyalaya, was also equally futile.

04) If any of you knows them and / or are able to communicate with them, I welcome your conveying my hearty congratulations to their Team on their great contribution.

05) I also welcome any philanthropic entrepreneur or NGO working with the potable water problem of people of 'Fluoridated Water Affected Areas', from across the globe to take note of this Discovery and try to use it, where feasible.

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http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/sci-tech/others/tulsi-can-detoxify-fluoridated-water-423

'One billion people live without access to safe drinking water'!

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AP / The Hindu / STOCKHOLM, August 26, 2011.

Children drink water from the same place as cattle at a town of Liboi, Kenya, in this July 27, 2011, photo - AP.

Investing as little as 0.16 per cent of the world’s gross domestic product or $198 billion per year could give half a billion people regular access to safe drinking water within four years, a U.N. official said on Friday.

That would halve the number of people who risk serious illness and death on a daily basis, the United Nations Environment Programme said.

The findings are presented in the U.N.’s Green Economy report, which also warns that if the global community continues to ignore water services investments, demand for water risks outstripping supply by 40 per cent before 2030.

UNEP spokesman Nick Nuttall said the world total of people without access to safe drinking water currently totals around 1 billion people.

According to the report, people living in countries such as Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam are particularly prone to catching waterborne diseases because of the poor water sanitation there.

Rest at,

http://www.thehindu.com/health/policy-and-issues/article2400128.ece

     

Mars may have flowing salt water: NASA!

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Agence France Presse, Updated: August 05, 2011 02:04 IST.

Washington:  Scientists have spotted dark stripes on some slopes on Mars in the warmer months, and they believe it may be evidence of flowing salt water, NASA researchers said on Thursday.

If confirmed, it would be the first discovery of active liquid water in the ground on Mars.

Finger-like markings have shown up along several steep slopes in the middle latitudes of Mars' southern hemisphere, fading again once colder temperatures move in, according to data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

"The best explanation we have for these observations so far is flow of briny water, although this study does not prove that," said Alfred McEwen of the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory.

"It's a mystery now, but I think it's a solvable mystery with further observations and experiments," said McEwen, lead author of a study explaining the findings in the journal Science.

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http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/mars-may-have-flowing-salt-water-nasa-124389

Atlantis crew to test textbook-sized kit that converts urine into drinking water!

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• July 11, 2011 
• ANI 
• Washington / DC.

Atlantis crew to test textbook-sized kit that converts urine into drinking water via Commons.

NASA's last space shuttle mission this Friday will carry a textbook-sized kit that can convert urine into potable water.

Soldiers already use similar technology to filter out parasites, bacteria, viruses and other contaminants from dirty fluids, including urine, but NASA's adapted baggie system has yet to prove itself in space, reports Wired News.

"This could be a first step toward recapturing the humidity from our sweat, from our breath, even from our urine, and recycling it and making it drinkable," said NASA project scientist and experiment leader Howard Levine, who made a reference to water-recycling 'stillsuits' used on a desert world in the science fiction series Dune.

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http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/sci-tech/space/atlantis-crew-test-textbook-sized-kit-converts-urine-drinking-water-184

HYDERABAD BUZZ: Uranium level may go over permissible limit!

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• July 18, 2011 
• By Syed Akbar 
• Correspondent 
• Hyderabad / DC.

Few Hyderabadis know that they consume 0.14 to 9.50 micro gram per litre of Uranium when they drink water from the river Krishna. While the amount is within the permissible limits set by the World Health Organisation, environmentalists warn that the dissolved uranium levels in water will go up once the Uranium Corporation of India Limited takes up mining in Nagarjunasagar.

The intake may then actually exceed the permissible levels of 15 micro grams per litre fixed by the World Health Organisation. Incidentally, till a few years back the maximum permissible level for dissolved Uranium in drinking water was just two micro grams per litre, but under pressure from developed nations, the world’s premier health body revised it to 15 micro grams.

Almost 60 per cent of the drinking water needs of the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad are met by Krishna water drawn from Nagarjunasagar and the state government has plans to tap more water from the river, ultimately taking it to 80 per cent. The Health Physics Unit of the Nuclear Fuel Complex had collected a number of water samples from municipal taps and bore wells in Hyderabad and Secunderabad and analysed the water samples using laser-induced fluorimetry.

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http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/nation/south/uranium-level-may-go-over-permissible-limit-438

Jairam Ramesh for check on groundwater depletion!

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• July 18, 2011 
• By Rashme Sehgal 
• Correspondent 
• New Delhi / DC.

India’s worsening water crisis threatens to curtail food production while taking an increasingly heavy toll on the country’s economics.

Keeping this in mind, a worried minister of rural development Jairam Ramesh is planning to take stringent measures to regulate the over extraction of ground water for purposes of agriculture and industry especially since groundwater sources are “expected to dry up due to unregulated extraction”.

Mr Ramesh, who has been given additional charge of drinking water and sanitation after Gurudas Kamat, refused to take charge and warned that this was a serious issue as 80 per cent of rural India is depended on groundwater for drinking water.

While the goal of the National Drinking Water Mission is to provide safe drinking water for every rural Indian, this is becoming increasingly untenable with drinking water supplies being contaminated by chemical contaminants like arsenic and fluoride and also with large amounts of untreated industrial effluents and sewage.

A recently released report of the Asian Development Bank has warned that both India and China need to become conscious of the scarcity value of accessible freshwater and how to manage this efficiently.

Full Story at,

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/nation/north/ramesh-check-groundwater-depletion-439

HEALTH, R & D, WATER PURIFICATION: 'Super sand' to purify drinking water!

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• June 23, 2011 
• IANS 
• Bangalore /DC.

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• Scientists have developed a way to chemically transform ordinary sand into so-called 'super sand' for improved purification of drinking water.
  Ordinary sand, an abundant natural resource of the earth, is a preferred filter material used throughout the world to purify drinking water from municipal water supplies to small domestic water filters, particularly as packed bed filters.
  The new method transforms the regular sand into a 'super sand' with five times the filtering capacity, according to a report in the journal Applied Materials & Interfaces published by the American Chemical Society (ACS).

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http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/sci-tech/future/super-sand-purify-drinking-water-212

Climate change: Climate change to reduce water availability, FAO warns!

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A woman piles up wheat after harvesting at a farm in village Majra Khurd of Haryana. File photo.

Climate change will make water less available to produce food crops in years to come, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in a report issued Thursday.

River runoff and aquifer recharges will decrease in the Mediterranean, the Americas, Australia and southern Africa, it said.

Areas in Asia which depend on the melting of ice and mountain glaciers will also be affected, while areas with a lot of fluvial deltas are threatened by reduced water flow, increased salinity and rising sea levels, said the report entitled “Climate Change, Water and Food Security”.

While all Nations talk of 'Food-Security', the equally crucial 'Water-Security' is being neglected by one and all!

This should happen at micro-level through restoration of the degraded storm water drainage systems, provisioning of water percolation, conscious increasing of ground water levels, reducing the water wastage by adapting water efficient fittings, drip irrigation and development of local water storage for agriculture, horticulture, et al.

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http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/agriculture/article2093624.ece