Posts Tagged ‘Asia’
India mines more iron ore than it needs
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India currently mines more iron ore than domestic industry requires to produce iron and steel. About 220 million tons got mined last year; only 75 million tons was needed within India. The rest 60 per cent was exported. Read the rest of this entry »
Plenty of power, but none to use in Nepal
Nepal although small as a nation, has a potential for hydro power generation of as much as 83,000 megawatts. Of this, about one-half is commercially viable, making Nepal the second largest hydro power potential next only to Brazil. Read the rest of this entry »
Too small, too many
India comprises just 2.4 per cent of the world’s inhabitable geographical area. Yet it supports 16.7 per cent of the world’s population. This leads to tremendous pressure on its natural resources.
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A new kind of riot in the making
We have been familiar with riots of farmers who dispute Cauvery water being offered to Tamil Nadu or TN farmers staging protests of how Karnataka is not giving them water.
There is a different kind of riot now in the making over the next ten years. Read the rest of this entry »
Borewells add arsenic to your rice
A tap with a trickle in a Bellary village that was severely affected by October 2009 floods.
That borewells have depleted groundwater reserves sharply since the 1980s when they were brought on a largescale is something we all know. What is not known is that borewells also increase the groundwater contamination levels and increase the threat of fluorides and arsenic.
An estimated 1000 tonnes of arsenic is pumped up by tubewells and borewells annually and added to fertile soils in many parts of the rice bowls of India. Read the rest of this entry »
