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 …
Thousands of villages in the state still lack proper drinking water facility while one-third of them are only partially covered with adequate and safe drinking water. Responding to a question in the Rajya Sabha, minister of state for drinking water and sanitation, Upendra Kushwaha, admitted that Rajasthan has a lot …
Chemical contamination of drinking water sources, particularly with fluoride and nitrate, is posing a serious health hazard to people in the villages of Gulbarga district. Sources in the District Surveillance Unit and the National Fluorosis Prevention and Control unit told The Hindu here that as per water quality tests conducted …
A total of 26 district-level Government laboratories have been established in Chhattisgarh for testing the purity of drinking water.During the last three years, 56,388 samples of ground water sources have been examined in these laboratories, officials said. In the areas, where iron-ore, fluoride or impurities were found in the samples, …
Uttar Pradesh government may be headed for troubled waters over failure to curb extensive ground water contamination in the Singrauli area of Sonbhadra. Despite orders from the principal bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in New Delhi, the state government has not, so far, submitted a compliance report before …
Jharkhand, where most rural and semi-urban pockets and even some urban neighbourhoods are plagued by arsenic and fluoride contamination, received its first state-of-the-art water-testing laboratory on Thursday. Drinking water and sanitation minister Jai Prakash Bhai Patel threw open the hi-tech facility at PHED Colony in Hinoo in the heart of …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of Asim Sarode & Others Vs The Collector of Nanded & Others dated 07/07/2014 regarding excessive extraction of groundwater and floride affected areas in Nanded, Maharashtra. Previous Orders
A report `Rajasthan Action Plan on Climate Change' drafted recently by various departments of the state government with the help of TERI has also pointed out that the quality of ground water was a major issue The quality of ground water is a major concern for the state. At least …
Availability of potable water in schools, especially in rural areas, is a major problem. Students of many schools have no other option but to drink water having bacteriological contamination and high fluoride content. The health authorities collected 74 water samples from various government schools of the district between January and …
Of the 341 blocks in the State, 81 blocks have water with more arsenic than the permissible limit and 49 blocks with more fluoride than the standard value. North 24 Parganas district, where about 20 blocks are affected with arsenic contamination, is the worst affected and is followed by Nadia, …
The groundwater level in the city and the district is on a steady downward curve perhaps due to the city’s heavy dependence on tubewells for harnessing of water sources. In spite of good rainfall over the past couple of years, the water table has receded to as low as 300 …
BARC official said that the unsafe water sample can be further tested easily, to quantify the fluoride level roughly in order to know how unsafe it is. While taking a technology to the market is considered a difficult process by scientists, four companies have taken up a cost-effective visual detection …
The quality of drinking water in Faridabad has deteriorated, with 96 per cent of samples taken last month having failed the test. This is the second time this year that over 95 per cent samples have failed. In February, 98 per cent samples had failed. Sources said the Health Department …
The quality of drinking water in the town seems to have hit a new low. There are reports of some reverse osmosis (RO) water filter manufacturers withdrawing the facility of warranty to consumers. The warranty condition is reported to have been made ineligible in localities where total dissoluble solvents (TDS) …
The Centre has rapped the State government for failing to provide water in quality-affected habitations. “The achievement in 2013-14 as far as quality-affected habitations, rural population covered with piped water supply, number of tests done in laboratories, number of sustainability structure constructed is very poor,” said Ministry of Drinking Water …
NGT Worried About Illegal Dealers Selling Packaged Water The western zone bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in Pune has passed an order prohibiting unauthorized extraction of groundwater for commercial use after it was found that the presence of large quantities of fluoride in it is affecting villagers in …
This paper undertakes a review of current published information (peer-reviewed and grey literature) on Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology (CKDu) in Sri Lanka. It attempts to provide an overview of the possible environmentally-induced causal factors that have been implicated in the development of the disease, and identifies the gaps …
Hyderabad: Every election, the ill-effects of fluoride on the people of Nalgonda becomes an issue and the problem has become a bane for ruling governments who have not been able to solve it. As per recent statistics, seven mandals falling under the Bhongir Parliament constituency and 10 under Nalgonda have …
Safe potable water is a luxury in Nuapada district where content of fluoride in water is very high. Despite several schemes with outlay running into crores of rupees have been lined up to mitigate water scarcity in the State, residents of Boden and Komna blocks of the district have to …
More Than 5mg Per Litre Found In Groundwater Against Permissible Limit Of 1mg Per Litre The backward district of Nalgonda is now faced with one more major water contaminant. After fluoride and uranium, researchers have found substantial quantities of bromide in groundwater in Nalgonda district. As against the permissible limit …
Climate change is devastating all arid areas of Sindh including Chahcro, Kohistan, Kachho, Nara region, Achro Thar and Tharparkar and is causing reduction in rains, drinking water, grazing fields and livestock. Fluoride contamination of underground water sources in Chachro and other area of Thar desert has led to grave health …
