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Survivors desperate for clean water : Haiti Survivor
Jan 17th
Rescuers continued to pull survivors from collapsed buildings in Port-au-Prince today as aid agencies and the US military raced to tackle the latest problem of the unfolding disaster: a lack of clean water that threatens dehydration and massive outbreaks of waterborne disease.
A team of British rescue workers pulled a mother alive from the rubble of her house last night, 96 hours after she was trapped by Tuesday’s earthquake.
Volunteer group Rapid UK, supported by firefighters from Manchester and Leicestershire, celebrated freeing the 39-year-old after she was trapped in a tiny slither of space when her home collapsed. When she emerged from the gap between the crumpled first and second floors her arm was cut and she was very dehydrated, but she was fully conscious and happy to be alive.
HP Climate Change Photography Contest 2009
Dec 9th
Everyone is talking about the global warming. Planet is changing due to our destroyable actions. The world around us is changing. When most people think of global warming, they think of icebergs melting, seas rising and low-lying areas getting flooded. But it is no longer just an apocalyptic warning of doom. It is no longer something that will happen in some distant land. Flashfloods, hurricanes, droughts, heat waves and other natural disasters are becoming commonplace. Each one of us is being affected. The impact of climate change is no longer something that will come in the future – it is happening right here… right now.
The HP Climate Change Photography Contest, in association with Sanctuary Asia and WWF-India asks you to record these changes happening around you. A single, striking image has the power to tell a story that truly hits home. Through your photos, we hope to spread your message to the world and help bring about a change in the way we look at our planet.
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Tata now comes with world’s cheapest purifier
Dec 8th
Before few months, Tata launched a cheapest car, worth of 1,00,000 Rs. Now the Tata Group announced the launch of probably the world’s cheapest water purifier,Swach, on Monday.This product developed jointly by Tata group companies Tata Chemicals, TCS and Titan, will have two variants with retail prices of Rs 749 (nearly $16) and Rs 999(nearly 22$) respectively. On the event Ratan Tata, Chairman of Tata Industry, said, “The quest is not to create the cheapest products, Our focus is on accessing the largest number of people. That is what drove (the efforts on) Nano, that is what drove the low cost housing project and that is what is driving this too.”
(nearly 15$)