Toxic sip
The National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nagpur, had predicted that groundwater around the Union Carbide factory site would be contaminated by 2007. But as far back as the early 1990's, studies showed that potable water had already been contaminated by toxic factory wastes.
When G Thyagarajan, chairperson, s upreme Court 's (sc) monitoring committee on hazardous wastes, came to Bhopal, on July 14, 2005, local ngos reiterated the community's need for clean drinking water. Despite the sc's order to state authorities to provide water, there are four colonies without access to water and even in other areas, tanks are unable to get through to due to waterlogging. The sc committee has now assured the community people that both problems would be resolved within the next 15 days.
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