Groundwater 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 …

Action plan for critically polluted area Kurichi industrial cluster, Coimbatore

Kurichi industrial cluster is located at a distance of 7 km from Coimbatore city. This cluster has two industrial estate developed by SIDCOI and private to an extent of 180 acres. This is the action plan for critically polluted area Kurichi industrial cluster, Coimbatore published by Tamil Nadu Pollution Control …

Panel to monitor heavy metals in water bodies

Bathinda: In view of reports of the presence of uranium and other heavy metals besides arsenic in canal and underground water that were causing deadly diseases like cancer, the state government has constituted a five-member committee to formulate methods for sampling these water sources. Principal Secretary, Health, Satish Chandra said …

Beyond Bhopal: incentive for unsafe industries

Luck plays in strange ways. I was reaching for my scooter when the telephone rang in my office-cum-residence in Bhopal. I opened the gate, unlocked the door downstairs, ran up the steps to the first floor and opened the door to my apartment. Normally the caller would have given up, …

Operation Clean-up

There is 1.1 million tonnes of highly contaminated soil at the plant site, according to an estimate by the National Environment Engineering and Research Institute (NEERI) in Nagpur. It needs to be treated and safely disposed of. The report said up to two metres of soil will need to be …

UP districts drinking arsenic

Millions of people in Uttar Pradesh are drinking water contaminated with traces of cadmium, fluoride, arsenic, nitrates and lead, says a recently released Government report. A report prepared by the Department of Minor Irrigation and Ground water has claimed that groundwater in 49 out of 71 districts of Uttar Pradesh …

Water contamination forcing migration

Large number of people in Kanakapura are migrating to Bangalore and other cities of late. Reason: Sewerage water from Bangalore has been flowing into the town and contaminating the ground water. Congress

No toxic waste for disposal: Ramky

Ramky Enviro Engineers Ltd - the company which carried out disposal of 33.32 tonne of lime from the now-closed plant of the Union Carbide Corporation India Ltd (UCIL) in Bhopal where a gas leak killed thousands in December 1984 - today denied that it currently has any toxic waste lying …

Toxic water used for irrigation

Bathinda, June 29 Even after observing its health hazards, farmers of about 12 villages of this district are still using black smelly and toxic sludge flowing in the Lisada drain to irrigate their agricultural fields. The absence of canal water and highly fluoride dissolved groundwater has left farmers of villages …

The scourge of Malwa

The absence of any systematic study by Indian or foreign scientists has left sufficient room for wide and wild speculation on the probable causes of high incidence of cancer in parts of Punjab The scourge of Malwa It is well known in Punjab that the Malwa region shows a very …

Arsenic claims 5 lives in Assam

Tezpur: Arsenic and fluoride existing in ground water in Assam's Sonitpur district has claimed five lives and caused several others to suffer from related diseases like stomach disorder, kidney and heart problems. Consumption of water poisoned with arsenic and fluoride regularly was suspected to be the cause of five deaths …

SHRC orders filing of report on water contamination

K. T. Sangameswaran CHENNAI: The State Human Rights Commission on Monday ordered that the Chairman, Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB), Commissioner, Chennai Corporation, and the Chennai District Collector should file a report to the Commission on a report regarding contamination of groundwater in West Mogappair. Taking suo motu cognisance …

Fact and fiction Mogappair residents claim petrol seepage into their wells; bunkum, says IOC

WHILE more than 600 families living behind a petrol filling station at Fourth f Block in Mogappair West f complained that gasoline (from the fuel outlet) had seeped into their wells and rendered water unfit for cont sumption, officials of the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) strongly denied the allegation, saying …

Water contamination alleged

Vasudha Venugopal Oily: A sample of the contaminated water in West Mogappair.

Tragedy Today

Twenty five years later, ground zero of the Bhopal gas disaster is still a ghastly minefield for residents. They are still being harmed by the land they live in and the water they drink, writes M Rajshekhar MUHAMMAD Khan, a former Union Carbide employee, is confronted with the tragedy every …

Bhopal GoM report in 10 days

PM Asks Panel To Meet Immediately & Suggest Follow-Up Measures New Delhi: With the Bhopal gas tragedy verdict triggering an in-house Congress drama, government sought to shift focus onto the group of ministers (GoM) set up to examine the trial court

RO plants, evaporators installed at effluent plants

Serena Josephine. M It will help in preventing groundwater and land pollution VANIYAMBADI: Reverse osmosis (RO) plants and mechanical evaporators have been installed at four common effluent treatment plants situated at Vaniyambadi and Ambur and are ready to be commissioned. Work on installing the facility at Pernambut plant is in …

Members of GoM on Bhopal pleaded Dow case in UPA-I

New Delhi: The uproar over the Bhopal gas-leak judgment has put the role of several UPA ministers and functionaries, including those in the newly reconstituted group of ministers (GoM), under scrutiny yet again. While the UPA might have decided to set up the GoM as a facesaver in the midst …

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