Water Pollution

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding the deplorable condition of a water tank, Golconda Fort, Hyderabad, Telangana, 05/06/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …

Seasonal and spatial variation in magnesium & chloride concentration in groundwater of Deltaic regions of Kumabakonam, TN

Agricultural production from the deltaic regions is the highest in countries like India. Study of groundwater quality, which is a function of physical and chemical parameters of the geological formations, is important as it will affect the agricultural production. The present study was carried out with the objective of determining …

Hydrological study of limestone mining area, Vijayraghovgarh, Katni

The paper describes case study carried out for evaluation, planning and management of water resource in and around a limestone mining area located in Bamangaon and Mehgaon village of Vijayraghovgarh Block in Katni district of Madhya Pradesh. In the Vijayraghovgarh block was considered as an influencing zone for the water …

Water quality impact assessment and management for opencast coal mining projects

Major pollution sources in opencast coal mining are pumping of mine effluents; run off from coal stock yards, overburden dumps and haul roads; effluents from workshop and washing of heavy earth moving machinery and coal handling plant; disposal sites of sludge from oil and grease trap; domestic effluents from colony. …

Distribution of total reactive fluoride in sediments of Kuttanad waters

Fluoride takes part in a number of geochemical and biochemical reactions. The activity of the fluoride thus makes the ion non conservative in many occations, though the ion is included in the major ions category. Preferential enrichment of fluoride is a general observations in the coastal and estuarine environment. The …

Bad medicine

Pharma's health fallout devastating The industrial boom has hit areas around Hyderabad on many fronts

Fluoride contamination in rain water of Singrauli region

Fluoride concentration in rocks and soil are well documented, but data on the F concentration in coal are limited. In present paper, fluoride were monitored in rain water during rainy season at 7 location of Singrauli region in 2004. The sampling location were covered the impact of industrial complex of …

Heavy metal intrusion into soil and water near a textile mill

The textile mill, run by the Assam Polyster Co-operative Society Limited (APOL) is situated at Rangia, Kamrup district of Assam and has an installed capacity of 8000 m cloth production per day from viscose, polyester and acrylic fibers. The mill releases its effluents into the agricultural land in the western …

Measurement of underground water-soil radioactivity at different depths in arsenic prone areas

Studies on the presence of alpha emitting nuclides in the environment assume importance since they are found to be carcinogenic. Measurement of radioactivity in arsenic contaminated drinking water has already been reported. To perform a detail study the researchers have undertaken a programme to measure radioactivity in drinking water and …

E waste posing health risks for workers in scrapyards

Computers are not designed for recycling. It's not surprising, therefore, that in Europe and the us, a computer is thrown away every two years. And there are thousands of other electronic gadgets. 20-50 million tonnes of e-waste is generated annually worldwide. A lot of these castoffs are now finding their …

Darfur displaced demand justice

Victims of the Darfur genocide in Sudan, alongwith a few action groups and legal experts, recently demanded that environmental crimes committed during the mass killings also be accounted for and the perpetrators be tried in an international court. They demanded that the International Criminal Court (icc) in the Hague, the …

Muddy waters

IT IS not often that Whiting, Indiana, makes the national news. But Indiana's plan to let bp, a British energy company, expand an oil refinery there, possibly increasing pollution in Lake Michigan, has raised hackles not just in neighbouring Illinois but all the way to Capitol Hill. Barack Obama, a …

Muddy waters

The murky rules for keeping the Great Lakes clean IT IS not often that Whiting, Indiana, makes the national news. But Indiana's plan to let bp, a British energy company, expand an oil refinery there, possibly increasing pollution in Lake Michigan, has raised hackles not just in neighbouring Illinois but …

Iran`s food industry top polluter

Iran's food and drink industry is the top polluter of the country's water resources, says a World Bank report. The report, The indices of world development, on water pollution around the world, has evaluated the role of different industries in polluting the waterbodies in Iran. The food and drink industry …

Foul is fair, air is foul

The latest report of the World Bank citing the death count due to air and water pollution in China has made the Chinese government uneasy. Chinese officials now urge the bank to revise the report, Cost of Pollution in China: Economic Estimates of Physical Damages. According to the report, every …

Open cast mining threatens Assam

A subsidiary of the central ministry of coal in Assam is steadily refusing to compensate for crop damages wrought by its open-cast mining. This is after the Gauhati High Court told the company to pay compensation of more than Rs 4 crore in its January 2007 order. The North Eastern …

Jordan ministers quit over water contamination

Water contamination led to the resignation of two ministers in Jordan following pressure from media and opposition parties. Jordan's water minister Mohammad al-Alem and health minister Saad Kharabsheh resigned on July 29 after being held responsible for hundreds falling ill with diarrhoea and high fever earlier in the month in …

Protest in China against pollution by industry

In yet another incident of protest over pollution in China, thousands of villagers in Sichuan province protested a polluting brewery on July 29. The police clamped down on the protesters, a human rights group. The protest in Yuanshi town was against the state-run China Resources (Shifang) Breweries Co that was …

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