Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Rajat Verma Vs Member Secretary, Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board & Others dated 07/03/2025. The matter related to chromium dumps at Rania, Kanpur Dehat, Rakhi Mandi, Kanpur Nagar and Fatehpur. Amicus Curiae in the earlier proceedings had pointed out that …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of Asim Sarode & Others Vs District Collector Nanded & Others dated 11/01/2016 regarding environmental concern faced by residents of more than 12 districts in the State of Maharashtra due to contaminated ground water in terms of …
NITI Aayog will provide Rs 1,000 crore to save a large population in various states where people are forced to consume groundwater that contains excess of health-crippling arsenic and fluoride. The plan is to install community water purification plants (CWPPs). Each of which would provide 1,000 litres of drinking water …
Public Health Engineering Minister Ramsevak Paikra on Monday informed the Chhattisgarh Assembly that drinking water in at least 395 villages of 17 districts in Chhattisgarh had excess fluoride content. The fluoride content in drinking water of these villages is beyond permissible limit, he informed in a written reply to BJP …
Over 3.6 crore people living in more than 63,000 rural habitations are exposed to health hazards due to drinking water quality problems like excess arsenic, fluoride, iron, salinity or nitrate. Of this, 1,318 rural habitations are arsenic-affected, Minister of State for Drinking Water Ram Kripal Yadav told the Upper House …
The Standing Committee on Water Resources (2015-16) present the Fifth Report on “Review of Ground Water Scenario, need for a comprehensive policy and measures to address problems in the country with particular reference to Dark Blocks; and Contamination of underground water by certain industries.”
The groundwater of Ambagarh Chouki, Rajnandgaon, India, shows elevated levels of As and F−, frequently above the WHO guidelines. In this work, the concentrations of As, F−, Na+, Mg2+, Ca2+, Cl−, SO4 2−, HCO3 −, Fe, dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) in the groundwater of Ambagarh …
A report on groundwater has sounded the alarm bells for people of the district, as fluoride content in water has been found 22 times higher than the permissible limit in Narnaul, the district headquarters. Alarmed, officials of the National Programme for Prevention and Control of Fluorosis (NPPCF) have swung into …
For an election that can make or break the main contenders for power in Bihar, no one seems bothered about environmental issues. The ever increasing pollution in the Ganges, people hit hard by arsenic, fluoride and iron content in drinking water, rising air pollution and falling rainfall -- issues that …
The Tribunal had constituted a core committee to monitor the potential hazards of industrial development in Singrauli area and five sub-committees for quantification of industrial pollution and impact assessment of water, air, soil and health in and around Singrauli. The committee informed the bench that ground water in the villages …
The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has sanctioned Rs.543.63 crore assistance for mega drinking water supply project in fluoride-contaminated blocks of Odisha’s Nuapada district. The project envisaged at supplying of 100 litres per capita per day (lpcd) of drinking water to 1.20 lakh families in the fluoride-affected …
Prahlad Singh and his friends look at each other, amused as they point to the handpump situated at the centre of their village. "This," he says drawing an arc in the air, "used to be the grand battlefield." The stout middle-aged man, who works as a driver, cuts back to …
BAIKUNTHPUR: A large number of villagers, including children, around Korea district headquarters in North Chhattisgarh are suffering from fluorosis- that cause deformities in children and elderly due to excessive fluoride content in ground water that these villages draw to drink. Scores of residents of these villages, especially those in remote …
The State Government has made a plan to implement a Mega Flow Water Scheme at a cost of Rs2,600 crore through which 70 litre of safe water per head would be provided to all households in the State. Rural Development Minister Badrinarayan Patra said this in the Assembly on Tuesday …
Union minister for drinking water and sanitation Birendra Singh said that Rajasthan is worst affected by water contamination in the country and 22,254 habitations in the state are yet to be provided with safe drinking water. Replying to a question in Rajya Sabha on August 3, the minister presented the …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on contamination of drinking water, 03/08/2015. Rajasthan is the worst State affected with 22,254 water quality affected habitations which are yet to be provided safe drinking water as on 1/4/2015. In Rajasthan, as on 1/4/2015, as reported by the State Government into the online Integrated …
50% of the samples taken from govt schools fail lab test Hazardous and contaminated water from hand pumps containing excessive fluoride, chloride and bacteria is the only source of drinking water available for children in a number of schools of Mansa and Bathinda districts. Though water from hand pumps have …
BENGALURU:The Karnataka high court has directed the various departments to ensure supply of clean drinking water to people of the border taluk of Pavagada, which is severely affected by a high fluoride content in the ground water. A division bench headed by Acting Chief Justice Subhro Kamal Mukherjee gave this …
Multivariate statistical techniques, cluster and principal component analysis were applied to the data on groundwater quality of Suri I and II Blocks of Birbhum District, West Bengal, India, to extract principal factors corresponding to the different sources of variation in the hydrochemistry as well as the main controls on the …
Majority of the population in the country is exposed to the hazards of drinking unsafe and polluted water from both surface and ground water sources. According to newly released Pakistan Economic Survey 2014-15, as derived from the national water quality monitoring programme carried out by the Pakistan Council of Research …
A study was conducted on the residents of Bhupnagar, a fluoride endemic village in Gaya district, Bihar, to assess the ameliorating effect of amla (Emblica officinalis) on fluoride-induced toxicity. Fifty-three subjects of different age groups were included in the study. Among these, 27 subjects (test group) were given amla powder …
