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This article discusses the use of groundwater in urban areas in developing countries such as Indonesia and India. According to the author, there has been little government success in managing groundwater in urban areas due to an inability to monitor and enforce extraction limits. He discusses aquifer level self organizing systems controlled by local citizens and farmers. These self-organizing institutions are given the rights to assess penalties for over-extraction. They have also promoted rainwater extraction and percolation pits for aquifer recharge. He recommends cooperation between local groups and government in creating sewage system infrastructures to prevent groundwater contamination.

Focuses on environmental policies for air pollution in Delhi, India. Changes in the use of fuels to compressed natural gas by vehicles; Role of Indian Supreme Court in the implementation of regulatory policies in the country; Impact of the proliferation of laws in 1980s on the actual state of pollution in Delhi.

Focuses on the role of transnational environmental advocacy networks in the advancement of global environmental movements as of March 2004. Overview of achievements of transnational environmental advocacy networks; Factors which determine the effectiveness of a network's efforts; Challenges facing transnational environmental advocacy networks; Efforts done by major transnational environmental advocacy networks in Brazil, India and Ecuador to promote environmentally sustainable development at the local level during the 1980s and 1990s. INSETS: THE RONDÔNIA NETWORK: RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL;THE NARMADA NETWORKS: NIMAR VLLEY, CENTRAL INDIA;THE ANTI-OIL NETWORK IN ECUADOR'S ORIENTE.

This article focuses on the Global Consultation on Safe Water and Sanitation for the 1990s conference held in New Delhi, India in September 1990. According to the working paper of the 115-nation conference, about 40 percent of the world's population suffers from serious water shortages. With urbanization continuing and world population growing at about two percent each year, the conferees found that governments and international organizations are losing ground in the water crisis and that the number of nations lacking adequate renewable water resources is expected to nearly double from 19 in 1975 to an estimated 37 by 20225. The World Health Organization estimates that, of the world's 5 billion people, 1.2 billion do not have safe drinking water and 1.7 billion do not have adequate sanitation facilities. Although drinking water has been made available to 1.3 billion more people in the last decade, more efforts should be done including decentralizing water supply systems, making the planning and provision of water resources more efficient, and enlarging the role of women in decision-making.

Examines the issue that overpopulation is impending disaster to global prosperity, in the context of the world's two most populous countries, China and India. Poverty pressures; Migration; Development pressures; Energy dilemma; Consumption pressures; Providing food and water.

Examines the negative effects of the establishment of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation in Indiana on the environment. Contamination of food-chain and air and water pollution; Sporadic distribution of the toxic polychlorinated biphenyls; Poisoning of bodies of water in Indiana.

Focuses on a study in Cochin, India, on the importance of integrating adaptation and mitigation to address the climate change problems.