Water: `All is not well, yet no corrective steps being taken`

  • 19/10/2005

  • Indian Express (Chandigarh)

The water table is dipping. Pollutants in ground water are increasing. But the Punjab government is sitting pretty. No effort is beign made to work on the subject of water and waste water management technologies, said experts who were in Ludhiana to deliberate on waste water management.More worrying facts came spilling out at the seminar. To date, no more than three industrial groups have opted fro waste water management, adopting the injection well technique. In Punjab, no more than 10 industriail units have followed suit, sources said.