Delhi—a city and union territory of India containing the country’s capital, New Delhi—continues to grow in population, posing challenges to civic agencies in the provision of citizens’ essential needs.
THE rapidly deteriorating quality of groundwater in parts of Delhi is due to hazardous substances leached from landfill sites, according to Central Ground Water Authority (CGWA). The water is
• Pesticides can harm unborn children, and an estimated Rs 24,000 crore is needed to fight pesticide-borne dis-eases, says Suresh Prabhu, Union minister for environment and forests. •
Washington state plans to sue the US energy department for failing to clean up a radioactive waste dump
Groundwater in some parts of Calcutta has revealed traces of arsenic, according to a recently published research paper. Scientists from the School of Environmental Studies of Jadavpur University,
Supply of potable water has been affected by contamination of water sources in most developing countries. Rivers, lakes and groundwater have been polluted by industrial effluents, pesticides and
US scientists have developed a device that eliminates all carcinogenic additives from groundwater reserves
No more drinkable, Delhi s groundwater is poison
Toxic pesticides that contaminate the soil and enter the food chain need to be replaced with non-toxic ones. But research in this area is still in its infancy
A new bacterium can convert a toxic groundwater pollutant into a harmless hydrocarbon
a rs 5 crore plan has been submitted by the government of West Bengal to the Centre in order to fight the high levels of arsenic and fluoride contamination in the groundwater of the state. The
