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• Rural areas in Rajasthan most affected by contaminated drinking water

  A recent report of the Union water resources ministry states that villages in Rajasthan are most affected by contaminated water in the country. According to the report, in Rajasthan, 25,504 rural habitations or 1.09 crore people are getting water with chemical or bacterial contamination. Assam comes next with 12,879 rural habitations or 0.44 crore people affected by contamination, followed by Bihar with 10,587 affected households.

  • 30/09/2013

  • Times Of India (Jaipur)
  • • Rajasthan
    • Water Pollution
    • Ministry Of Water Resources
    • Urbanisation
    • Groundwater
    • WHO
    • Drinking Water
    • National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP)
    • Water Quality
    • Fluoride
    • Bureau Of Indian Standards (BIS)
    • Water Resources

• BIS clamps down on bottled water plants; cos contest charge

  Even as it is well past the January 1 deadline for packaged water companies to comply with the new norms laid down by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) for drinking water, the last word on the

  • 12/01/2004

  • Business Line (New Delhi)

• 3 die, 50 in hospitals after drinking polluted water

  Three persons of the NCERT Colony at Aurobindo Marg died allegedly by drinking contaminated water and around 50 persons were hospitalized in Safdarjung, Rockland and Moti hospitals in south Delhi today.

  • 26/06/2013

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

• Delhi High Court Judgement on packaged drinking water dated May 20th 2010

  The Bottled Water Processors Association having its office at New Delhi has filed this writ petition seeking directions against the Union of India (

  • 20/05/2010

  • High Court of Delhi
  • • Food Standards
    • Bottled Water Industry
    • Water Quality
    • Drinking Water
    • Food Safety
    • Bureau Of Indian Standards (BIS)
    • High Court
    • High Court of Delhi
    • New Delhi
    • Food Policy

• Who will take water scamsters to task?

  Ahmedabad: Who is responsible and accountable to the unsuspecting consumers being fooled by racketeers who are peddling illegally ISI marked 'packaged drinking water?

  • 10/03/2009

  • Times Of India (Ahmedabad)
  • • Bottled Water Industry
    • Drinking Water Standards
    • Water Supply
    • Bureau Of Indian Standards (BIS)
    • Gujarat

• Tribunal seeks report on packaged drinking water units

  The National Green Tribunal, Southern Bench, on Thursday directed the Chairman of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) and the Deputy Director General of Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), Southern

  • 15/03/2013

  • Hindu (Chennai)
  • • Tamil Nadu
    • Chennai (T)
    • Bottled Water Industry
    • National Green Tribunal (NGT)
    • Bureau Of Indian Standards (BIS)
    • State Pollution Control Board (SPCB)
    • Waterborne diseases
    • Health Effects
    • Water Pollution

• 564 water units have no ISI certification, State tells court

  The State government on Tuesday informed the Karnataka High Court that 564 mineral and packaged drinking water units in the State were functioning without the ISI certification and only 224 such units had ISI certification from Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). This information was given to a Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Vikramajit Sen and Justice Aravind Kumar during the hearing on a public interest litigation (PIL) petition complaining that a large number of such units are operating in the State without the mandatory ISI certification.

  • 25/07/2012

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • Bottled Water Industry
    • Drinking Water
    • High Court
    • Bureau Of Indian Standards (BIS)
    • Public Interest Litigation (PIL)
    • Bangalore (D)
    • Food Safety
    • Water Supply
    • Karnataka

• PCB finds 34 water packaging units in Chennai unsafe

  CHENNAI: In a significant development, the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board and Food Safety and Drug Administration departments have found that only 51 private packaged drinking water units in Chennai

  • 28/05/2013

  • Times Of India (Chennai)
  • • Tamil Nadu
    • Food Safety
    • Drinking Water
    • Chennai (T)
    • Water Quality
    • National Green Tribunal (NGT)
    • Bureau Of Indian Standards (BIS)

• Fake ISI-marked water jars seized

  CHENNAI: A team of officials from the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), Chennai, conducted a raid in Choolaimedu on Tuesday to check the misuse of ISI mark on packaged drinking water.

  • 02/04/2009

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

• Water, water everywhere, but how many brands are safe to drink?

  Unauthorised manufacturing units mushroom as consumption goes up by 15% Areas abutting the city are increasingly dotted with packaged drinking water industrial units. A minimum of 30 plants have come up over the last year in the neighbouring districts. The rising demand for water this summer has also paved the way for the sale of sub-standard quality of water and operation of unauthorised units.

  • 23/04/2012

  • Hindu (Chennai)
  • • Chennai (T)
    • Bottled Water Industry
    • Drinking Water
    • Water Quality
    • Water Demand
    • Bureau Of Indian Standards (BIS)
    • Groundwater
    • Food Safety And Standards Authority Of India (FSSAI)
    • Health Effects
    • Water Pollution
    • Tamil Nadu
• 

  MPCB acts against units selling unpackaged water

  Nagpur: The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has swung into action against local manufacturing units selling unpackaged and unsealed potable water. On September 6, TOI had reported that the

  • 16/09/2016

  • Times of India (Nagpur)
  • • Maharashtra
    • Drinking Water
    • State Pollution Control Board (SPCB)
    • Food Safety And Standards Authority Of India (FSSAI)
    • Groundwater Pollutants
    • Central Groundwater Board (CGWB)
    • Bureau Of Indian Standards (BIS)
    • Water Pollution

• Twenty Third Report on Socio-economic impact of commercial exploitation of water by Industries: Standing Committee on Water Resources (2017-18)

  The Standing Committee on Water Resources (2017-18) present the Twenty Third Report on “Socio-economic impact of commercial exploitation of water by Industries.” The Committee (2016 -17) had taken up the

  • 09/08/2018

  • Lok Sabha Secretariat
  • • Groundwater
    • Drinking Water
    • Water Supply
    • Bottled Water Industry
    • India
    • Groundwater Pollution
    • Parliament
• 

  Lead in PVC pipes affecting human health, NGT told

  The green panel also directed the MoEF Secretary to draw up a programme for phasing out lead from PVC pipes which is used to stabilise thermal degradation. Water passing through PVC pipes commonly used

  • 26/05/2017

  • Times Of India (New Delhi)
  • • Plastics
    • Drinking Water
    • Health Effects
    • Environmental Health
    • National Green Trbunal (NGT)
    • Bureau Of Indian Standards (BIS)
    • Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF)
    • Environment

• A bottled threat

  Jipson Sikhera KOCHI: The summer is on and the sale of bottled drinking water has gone up drastically. But are we really buying drinking water which has undergone stringent quality tests? While a large number of brands are available in the market with BIS certification, only a few adhere to the quality standards prescribed by the government for drinking water.

  • 07/04/2009

  • New Indian Express (Kochi)
  • • Bottled Water Industry
    • Drinking Water Standards
    • Water Pricing
    • Bureau Of Indian Standards (BIS)
    • Kerala

• HC cracks down on bottled water firms

  Faced with the startling data that only 224 out of the estimated 788 packaged drinking water manufacturing units in the State operate with ISI certification, the High Court on Friday directed companies without that seal of quality to apply for licences before the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) within 15 days. The court also directed the BIS to finish the formalities of application processing and follow-up procedures within four months and after that, take action against those agencies and companies that sell water without ISI certification.

  • 10/11/2012

  • Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
  • • Karnataka
    • Bangalore (T)
    • Bottled Water Industry
    • Public Interest Litigation (PIL)
    • High Court
    • Drinking Water
    • Bureau Of Indian Standards (BIS)
    • NGO
    • Food Safety and Standards Act 2006
    • Water Quality
    • State Pollution Control Board (SPCB)
    • Water Supply

• E coli in a bottle

  Ahmedabad companies found selling contaminated drinking water bottled water in Ahmedabad may not be safe. The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has found faecal bacteria in samples of water from three bottling plants last month. No action has been taken against the erring firms yet. The corporation carried out tests on 23 water samples collected from these plants and found three were

  • 14/04/2009

  • Down To Earth
  • • Water Pollution
    • Bottled Water Industry
    • Drinking Water
    • Drinking Water Standards
    • Health
    • Bureau Of Indian Standards (BIS)
    • Micro Organisms
    • Ahmedabad (T)

• Physico-chemical analysis of Pochampad Dam back water of Godavari river on Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh border

  Water samples were collected from different places in Godavari River located at Sangam point in Maharashtra and Basar point in Andhra Pradesh. The results obtained are compared with drinking water standard (BIS-10500). The results obtained envisaged that pH value of drinking water samples were slightly neutral but the maximum pH was recorded in the site III at Bastar point (Andhra Pradesh) sampling location and minimum value 7.22 was noticed in site III at Sangam point.

  • 31/12/2007

  • Pollution Research
  • • River Pollution
    • Godavari
    • Water Quality
    • Heavy Metals
    • India
    • Andhra Pradesh
    • Maharashtra
    • Statistics

• BIS raids water plant for misuse of ISI mark

  Close on the heels of blacklisting 19 packaged drinking water companies; the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) conducted a raid on the premises of a firm that processed packaged drinking water, in the

  • 18/01/2006

  • New Indian Express (Chennai)
  • • Dams
    • Irrigation

• BIS raids water plants

  THE officials of the Bureau of Indian standards (BIS) today conducted raids on two plants producing packaged drinking water in twin

  • 17/10/2003

• Who said canned drinking water is safe?

  Most of us have the habit of drinking water right out of bubble-top cans without qualms. But is the canned ‘mineral water’ safe enough? No, if you were to go by the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB)’s

  • 08/05/2013

  • New Indian Express (Chennai)
  • • Tamil Nadu
    • Chennai (D)
    • Drinking Water
    • Bottled Water Industry
    • State Pollution Control Board (SPCB)
    • Water Quality
    • Bureau Of Indian Standards (BIS)
    • National Green Tribunal (NGT)
    • Health Effects
    • Water Pollution