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Five things you can do for the environment, today!
Climate Change is Real, We Need to Care. NOW!, #1: Adopt eco-friendly and sustainable lifestyle, Every kilogram of textiles produced, generates about 17 kilograms of CO2. Being mindful of what we consume and how we consume can go a long way in saving our environment. The 4 R’s,, reduce, reuse, repair and recycle,,...
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Become a Climate Champion
Climate change is REAL. We need to care NOW, The climate crisis is here and getting worse each year. The world continues to get warmer at an alarming rate, putting almost every child at risk of more frequent and destructive climate hazards – air pollution, cyclones, disease, flooding, heatwaves and water scarcity....
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Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Situational Analysis in Tea Gardens in Assam
The UNICEF Assam Field Office (AFO) supports 203 Tea Estates in eight districts of Assam under the Ethical Tea Partnership (ETA) programme. The lack of safe and adequate water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services provides significant issues to the tea tribes' communities. The report's key objective is to asses...
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Community sanitary complexes in rural India
To improve sanitation facilities nationwide, the Government of India (GoI) launched the flagship sanitation campaign, Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), in 2014. The campaign's first phase concluded in 2019, with all Indian villages, states and union territories declaring themselves "open-defecation free" (ODF). Further...
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Weekly surveillance of wastewater for SARS-CoV-2 gene detection for pandemic curve monitoring
This study was conducted as a weekly surveillance of wastewater for SARS-CoV-2 to gather evidence about the COVID-19 situation at the community level. The surveillance study was carried out in the Ahmedabad city of Gujarat state in India. Given that up to 67 per cent of infected people showed SARS-CoV2 presence ...
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Rapid assessment on the continuation of basic WASH services during COVID-19 in India (2021)
COVID-19 impacted countries across the globe to varying degrees. In India, the pandemic led to the government imposing a nationwide lockdown starting on 24 March 2020, during which almost all activities came to a standstill for the subsequent months. During the pandemic, it became very clear early on that COVID-19...