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Water is a vital for life and health of all people and essential part of any ecosystem both in quantitative and qualitative terms. Since the birth of human civilization people have moved to settle close to it. Water and land has played a critical role in every aspect of human activity. Land-use is the human use of land. These two resources are essential to meet a multiplicity and variety of human needs and to serve numerous diverse purposes. They have a great ...
As the case with many other developing countries of the world, much of India's rural population still relies on the traditional biomass stoves for daily needs, thus increasing environmental health risks due to indoor air pollution. Cleaner Hearths, Better Homes draws on case studies from six Indian states—Maharashtra, Haryana, Karnataka, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, and West Bengal—and other stove programs around the globe. It discusses India's best ...