The practice means to do something feedback the society‚ economic or natural environments. It is based on the concept of Social Corporate Responsibility which is taking responsibility for the impact of their activities on communities‚ shareholders‚ customers‚ employees and suppliers. For each company‚ it offers the best practices in different domains. Due to the industries’ pollution and other factors‚ today‚ there are the limits of safe and fresh drinking water resources around people’s lives
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Removal of Arsenic from Village Drinking Water Supplies in West Bengal By Dr. Arun Deb Vice President (Retired)‚ Weston Solutions‚ Inc. West Chester‚ Pennsylvania Introduction and Background West Bengal‚ a state in Eastern India is very rich in groundwater and more than 80 percent of its populations tap this source as drinking water. In West Bengal‚ and in the neighboring nation of Bangladesh‚ a health crisis of devastating proportions has been quietly unfolding over many
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Research: I have researched in various fields about the problems of the rural peoples. I‚ with the help of my friends have visited 14 villages‚ 261 houses‚ and made a detailed report about their problems; which I depicted below. Drinking water problem: * Out of 261 families‚ only 7 are having pipe water supply‚ which is 2.6% of the all. * Only 14 families use purifiers‚ which is 5.3% of the overall‚ in their houses. Electricity: * Out of 14 villages I visited‚ 8 of them have electricity
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TIRUVALLUR/CHENNAI: The shutters of Sathyamurthy Sagar reservoir in Poondi were opened on Wednesday to release surplus water as the storage shot up to just a foot below the full capacity. Due to the heavy downpour‚ the inflow from surrounding catchment areas was about 3‚700 cusecs. The dam also received about 570 cusecs from the Krishna Drinking Water Supply channel. Tiruvallur District Collector Pankaj Kumar Bansal and Government Chief Whip P.M. Narasimhan released the shutters of the link canal
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Using named examples‚ assess the role of different players and decision-makers in trying to secure a sustainable ‘water future’. [15] The government plays a key role in trying to secure a sustainable water future. This is because it can invest in large scale projects such as the Chinese South-North project where the Chinese government plan to give the north a more sustained water supply. Governments can also subsides water projects‚ such as those done by IGOs in developing countries. However‚ it
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Opportunity • Market is open for filtration systems at low cost • 50% of urban sewage is untreated • Access to various technologies used in filtration • Industrial and biological pollution has contaminated almost 90% of the underground water in Chinese cities • 300 institutes engage in water supply research • Supply water smaller than U.S. but provide water for 5 times the population • 90% of underground water is contaminated by industrial pollution • Chinese tend to purchase luxury products
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Coca-Cola May 17‚ 2013 I. Introduction Corporate Social Responsibility is the corporate initiative to assess and take responsibility for the company ’s effects on the environment and impact on social welfare. The term generally applies to company efforts that go beyond what may be required by regulators or environmental protection groups. Corporate social responsibility may also be referred to as "corporate citizenship" and can involve incurring short-term costs that do not provide an
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Human body needs three requisites for its smooth functioning – oxygen‚water and food in that order.Our first requirement to live is oxygen since we cannot survuvive more than a few minutes without taking oxygen.Water has been ranked as second only to oxygen as essential for life because we can stay for a few days without drinking water.Then comes the food. Human body is made up of two-thirds of water and one-third of solid matter.The average adult body is 55 to 75% water. A human embryo is more
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The modern environmental justice movement began in the mid- 20th century‚ when the country realized that the environment needed help. This movement throughout the last several decades has evolved from protecting woodland areas from deforestation to protection against the gas industry. Hydraulic fracturing is the process by which natural gas is extracted from the earth’s shales. The process begins with drilling through several layers of the earth‚ like the freshwater aquifer. Next‚ water with
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The Era of Pollution is Over Pollution is an occurrence that is happening more and more every day; it affects many essential aspects. Air envelops the Earth and makes all life possible. Humans alone breathe 35 pounds of air every day. Our Earth’s atmosphere shields us from harmful cosmic radiation. By allowing pollution to continue as Earth inhabitants we are opening ourselves to outside harm. Pollution is also affecting the Earth’s water supply causing harm to millions of people and other life
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