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Greenpeace Detox campaign- Next: Levi’s

You’ve already helped convince the world’s largest fashion retailer to Detox. Last week Zara committed to eliminate all uses and releases of hazardous chemicals from its supply chain and products by 2020. Now let’s get Levi’s to make a Detox commitment that’s even more ambitious than Zara’s. Just like Zara and the other brands we …

BHP Billiton – Olympic Dam Update

December 06, 2012: BHP Billiton today announced plans to transfer responsibility for its Olympic Dam operation to the Base Metals Customer Sector Group. The announcement follows decisions in August this year to investigate an alternative, less capital-intensive design of the Olympic Dam open-pit expansion and to sell the Yeelirrie uranium asset in Western Australia to Cameco …

Mechel Secures Restructuring of a 1-Billion-Dollar Syndicated Loan

Moscow, Russia – December 05, 2012 – Mechel OAO (NYSE: MTL), one of the leading Russian mining and metals companies, announces signing an amendment and restatement agreement in relation to a syndicated pre-export loan totalling 1 billion US dollars in order to further improve the liquidity of the company. The amendment and restatement agreement on …

SSAB announces price increases

SSAB EMEA is raising its prices for hot rolled, cold rolled and galvanized coil, as well as heavy plate. Prices are being increased by at least SEK 300 per tonne. The price increases apply to all orders acknowledged after December 5th, 2012. “There has been a perceptible decline in steel prices during 2012. The price …

Mobile NFC Growth Forecast Scaled Back to $110bn in Transactions by 2017 as iPhone 5 Omits Chipset – Juniper Research

Take up remains slow;“two year lag” in adoption forecast Hampshire, UK – 5th December: Juniper Research has today published its revised forecasts for the global NFC market, significantly scaling back its growth estimates for the North American and Western European markets. NFC Retail Transaction Values Reduced While the report finds that by 2017 the proportion …

River Linking Projects

The Ministry of Water Resources (MoWR) (erstwhile Ministry of Irrigation) formulated a National Perspective Plan (NPP) for Water Resources Development in 1980 envisaging inter-basin transfer of water from surplus basins to deficit basins/areas which comprises  two components, namely, Himalayan Rivers Development Component and Peninsular Rivers Development Component. National Water Development Agency (NWDA) was set up under …

Management of Water Resources

On the basis of the population indicated in 2011 census, the per capita water availability works out to be about 1545 cubic meter per year making India a water stressed country. According to Falkenmark Water Stress Indicator, water availability below 1700 cubic meter per capita per year indicates water stress condition. The challenges associated with …

Proper Use of Water

Due to seasonal, geographical and annual variation in availability of water as well as lack of adequate storage, substantial quantity of water, especially during monsoon season, remains unused and flows into sea. As per present assessment, the average annual water availability in the country is 1869 Billion Cubic Meter (BCM), i.e., about 66000 Thousand Million …