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• Groundwater around Carbide factory toxic, says report

  The Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (IITR) has informed the Supreme Court that groundwater around the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal is contaminated. In an interim report submitted before the Bench of Justices Altamas Kabir and J. Chelameswar, the IITR said 30 samples were collected from the disaster site. Nitrate level in nine samples exceeded the permissible limit prescribed by the Bureau of Indian Standards for drinking water and lead beyond the limit was found in 24.

  • 26/09/2012

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • Bhopal (D)
    • Groundwater Pollutants
    • Union Carbide
    • Bureau Of Indian Standards (BIS)
    • Drinking Water
    • WHO
    • Toxicity Studies
    • Bhopal Gas Disaster
    • Chemical Industry
    • Water Pollution
    • Madhya Pradesh
• 

  Notice issued to 8 water purification plants in Haldwani

  NAINITAL: The state food security department has issued notices to eight water purification plants in Haldwani for flouting various norms, including running without a licence from Bureau of Indian Standards

  • 11/01/2016

  • Times Of India (Dehradun)
  • • Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand)
    • Drinking Water
    • Bureau Of Indian Standards (BIS)
    • Food Safety
    • Water Supply

• Court asks govt to form taskforce

  The Delhi high court has directed the Centre to constitute a taskforce to ensure compliance of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) norms for manufacturing and selling packed drinking water in the city.

  • 28/06/2010

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)
  • • Bottled Water Industry
    • Water Quality
    • Drinking Water
    • Urban Water Supply
    • Drinking Water Standards
    • Water Supply
    • Bureau Of Indian Standards (BIS)
    • High Court
    • Delhi
    • Asian Age (New Delhi)

• 40 taken ill on NCERT campus after consuming infected water

  Over 40 people were taken ill after consuming contaminated water, supplied by Delhi Jal Board, on the NCERT campus near Hauz Khas on Tuesday. While some of those affected are under treatment at various city hospitals including Safdarjung, Rockland and Saket City Hospital in South Delhi, two persons including a four-year-old child allegedly died in the area following complication arising out of drinking unclean water this past Sunday.

  • 26/06/2013

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • Delhi
    • Water Pollution
    • Delhi Jal Board (DJB)
    • Water Supply
    • Health Effects
    • Water Quality
    • Water Distribution
    • Bureau Of Indian Standards (BIS)
    • Drinking Water

• NGT slams officials for letting illegal packaged water units function for decades

  The National Green Tribunal, Southern Bench, has expressed shock over 800-odd packaged drinking water units functioning without consent from the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board TNPCB). Questioning

  • 05/09/2013

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • Tamil Nadu
    • Bottled Water Industry
    • Groundwater
    • State Pollution Control Board (SPCB)
    • National Green Tribunal (NGT)
    • Bureau Of Indian Standards (BIS)
    • High Court
    • Drinking Water
    • Water Resources

• Water in 31 districts polluted with arsenic

  The groundwater in nearly 31 districts in Uttar Pradesh has been found to have a strong arsenic contamination which exposes the people to slow and consistent toxin. A technical report titled Arsenic

  • 15/07/2014

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)
  • • Uttar Pradesh
    • Groundwater Pollution
    • Arsenic
    • Bureau Of Indian Standards (BIS)
    • Toxicity Studies
    • Lucknow (D)
    • Drinking Water
    • Health Effects
    • Water Pollution

• Compliance report by Andhra Pradesh on the presence of arsenic and fluoride in the groundwater of the state, 29/03/2024

  <p>Compliance Report of Principal Secretary, Andhra Pradesh in OA NO 728 of 2023 (In re News item appearing in Hindustan dated 30.11.2023 titled Arsenic found in groundwater in 25 States, fluoride in 27

  • 29/03/2024

  • • Arsenic
    • Fluoride
    • Andhra Pradesh
    • Groundwater Pollutants
    • Drinking Water Standards
    • National Green Tribunal (NGT)
    • Court

• Provide safe drinking water to prevent fluorosis

  States asked to provide alternative source of drinking water in affected areas Concerned at increasing cases of fluorosis, the Union government has asked the States to provide alternative source of drinking water to the people in areas with high concentration of fluorosis in groundwater.

  • 05/07/2013

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • Drinking Water
    • Groundwater Pollution
    • Fluoride
    • Bureau Of Indian Standards (BIS)
    • Andhra Pradesh
    • Gujarat
    • Rajasthan
    • Delhi
    • Health Effects
    • Water Pollution

• BIS mark must for packaged water: HC

  The Delhi High Court on Monday ruled that no packaged drinking water can be sold in the Capital without the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) certification mark.

  • 01/06/2010

  • Indian Express (New Delhi)
  • • Water Pollution
    • Bottled Water Industry
    • Drinking Water
    • Waterborne diseases
    • Packaging Industry
    • Bureau Of Indian Standards (BIS)
    • High Court
    • Delhi
    • Indian Express (New Delhi)

• TNPCB faces green panel ire on water

  The southern bench of the National Green Tribunal censured officials of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) for its failure to file a comprehensive report on packaged drinking water units functioning

  • 27/08/2013

  • New Indian Express (Chennai)
  • • Tamil Nadu
    • National Green Tribunal (NGT)
    • Drinking Water
    • Bureau Of Indian Standards (BIS)
    • Water Supply

• Stress on good manufacturing practices for packaged water

  Seminar focusses on technologies for processing drinking water CHENNAI: At a seminar conducted on packaged drinking water here on Saturday, officials from the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) underscored the need for adhering to good manufacturing practices. The seminar, primarily meant for manufacturers, focussed on methods to deal with microbial contamination of water and technologies available for processing drinking water.

  • 27/07/2008

  • Hindu (Chennai)
  • • Bottled Water Industry
    • Drinking Water
    • Drinking Water Standards
    • Bureau Of Indian Standards (BIS)

• NGT slams TNPCB for not filing report on packaged drinking water units

  The National Green Tribunal, Southern Bench, on Monday slammed the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) for not filing a comprehensive report on packaged drinking water units functioning in the State.

  • 27/08/2013

  • Hindu (Chennai)
  • • Tamil Nadu
    • National Green Tribunal (NGT)
    • Drinking Water
    • Bureau Of Indian Standards (BIS)

• Hydro-chemical survey of groundwater of Delhi, India

  The physicochemical parameters and trace metal contents of water

  • 01/04/2009

  • E-Journal of Chemistry
  • • Groundwater
    • Heavy Metals
    • Urban Water Supply
    • Water Supply
    • Groundwater Quality
    • Delhi
    • E-Journal of Chemistry
    • Masood Alam
    • Sumbul Rais
    • Mohd Aslam
• 

  HC asks govt to act against unpackaged water sellers as per amended laws

  Maharashtra government to act against those selling packaged drinking in unsealed containers, as per the per the amendment carried out in the laws on March 1. "If any fresh cause of action has arisen

  • 27/04/2017

  • Times of India (Nagpur)
  • • Maharashtra
    • Nagpur (T)
    • Drinking Water
    • Public Interest Litigation (PIL)
    • Water Pollution
    • Food Safety And Standards Authority Of India (FSSAI)
    • Bureau Of Indian Standards (BIS)
    • High Court

• BIS raid on packaged water unit

  CHENNAI: Officials of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) on Monday conducted a raid on a packaged drinking water unit in Arumbakkam to check the misuse of ISI mark.

  • 19/05/2009

  • Hindu (Chennai)
  • • Water Quality
    • Drinking Water
    • Bureau Of Indian Standards (BIS)
    • Tamil Nadu
    • Chennai (T)

• Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding manufacture and sale of packaged drinking water without Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) certification mark, 25/02/2014

  Order of the National Green Tribunal (southern Zone, Chennai) in the matter of M/s. Karukvel Ayyanar Enterprises Chennai & Others Vs The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India New Delhi and others

  • 25/02/2014

  • • Bottled Water Industry
    • Bureau Of Indian Standards (BIS)
    • Food Safety And Standards Authority Of India (FSSAI)
    • National Green Tribunal (NGT)
    • Tamil Nadu
    • High Court
    • Bombay
• 

  If you think packaged water is safe, here's why it's not

  On a recent domestic flight, Ramachandra TV, a senior IISc professor, was given a water bottle by the air hostess. The professor got curious seeing the manufacturing label that gave a Jigani address in

  • 11/06/2015

  • Times Of India (Bangalore)
  • • Karnataka
    • Bottled Water Industry
    • Water Pollution
    • Bangalore (T)
    • Right To Information (RTI)
    • Drinking Water
    • Bureau Of Indian Standards (BIS)
    • Food Safety And Standards Authority Of India (FSSAI)

• Metal cations present in drinking water samples in and around Rangia town, District Kamrup, Assam

  The study aims at the assessment of drinking water quality in terms of some metal cations in and around Rangia town at different distances from the Rangia college. The results obtained were compared with drinking water standards (WHO, 2004 and BIS).

  • 01/08/2009

  • Indian Journal of Environmental Protection
  • • Water Pollution
    • Water Quality
    • Heavy Metals
    • Drinking Water
    • Drinking Water Standards
    • Assam
    • Kamrup

• Water contamination scare at NCERT campus

  More than 70 people have fallen sick in the past few days at the NCERT campus in south Delhi, allegedly due to contamination of drinking water. "The reports of residents falling sick started coming in

  • 26/06/2013

  • Times Of India (New Delhi)
  • • Delhi
    • Drinking Water
    • Water Pollution
    • Water Quality
    • Delhi Jal Board (DJB)
    • Water Supply
    • Bureau Of Indian Standards (BIS)
    • Water Distribution

• Dirty water being bottled for drinking

  With water crisis slowly taking on alarming proportions, substandard packaged drinking water, without proper labels and ISO certification and quality checks, are more freely available in the market, raising risks of contracting water-borne diseases. With the Water Board failing to supply adequate safe drinking water, residents are forced to buy water from private companies. But water bottles or pouches of many companies are sold without proper labels or adequate quality checks, officials said.

  • 18/04/2012

  • Deccan Chronicle (Hyderabad)
  • • Hyderabad (T)
    • Bottled Water Industry
    • Drinking Water
    • Waterborne diseases
    • Bureau Of Indian Standards (BIS)
    • Health Effects
    • Water Pollution
    • Andhra Pradesh