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Environmental Information System

(ENVIS)

Ministry of Environment & Forests

Government of India

New Delhi - 110 003

 

 

    

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  (Population and Environment)

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Prof.R.B.Bhagat

ENVIS Co-ordinator

Population and Environment

E-mail: rbbhagat@iips.net

 

Editorial

 

Contamination and scarcity are two important issues related to water upon which survival of humankind depends. The paper  presented in this bulletin elucidates the data and the measurement of the beliefs about water in two different locations in West Bengal which are closely related to the health and wellbeing of the people in the study area as well as outside. The bulletin includes the summary of the workshop on ISBED held at IIPS in Mumbai and   highlights the linkage between iodine deficiency and human health. It  presents the prevalence of goitre and any thyroid disorder in different States of India.

     

 

 

 

                 
       

This bulletin is published by Population and Environment Centre at International Institute for Population Sciences, Govandi Station Road, Deonar, Mumbai-400 088, every quarterly with fund provided by Ministry of Environment & Forests, New Delhi