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 …

Fluoride pollution in ground water of Jabalpur region: Correlation between alkalinity and fluoride

Jabalpur is a fluorosis endemic district, falls in the central part of Madhya Pradesh. Many of the people in this area are suffering from large scale fluorosis. By analyzing the last eleven years data, the researchers tried to study the resource profile that enhances the fluoride contamination in the area …

Fluoride pollution in ground water of Jabalpur region

Millions of people are crippled and leading vegetable life, due to fluoride in many parts of the country. The main cause of disease is intake of water with high fluoride content, i.e. more than 1.5 mg/L. Jabalpur district falls in the central part of Madhya Pradesh, many of the people …

Ground water pollution in Subarnapur and Nuapada districts of Orissa, India

Water has pivotal role for the survivality of the mankind. The hydrobiological cycle stores about 0.6% of water as ground water. The ground water level increase by percolation which is extensively used for biodrinking and irrigation. The pesticide in the chemical element causes artificial and natural ground water pollution. Subarnapur …

Groundwater dip: quantum, quality

the latest groundwater report of Karnataka, brought out by the Department of Mines and Geology (dmg) , shows that entire Bangalore is an overexploited zone. The 2004 study puts 55 taluka s in the overexploited category. The situation is worst in Kolar and Tumkur, apart from Bangalore's rural and urban …

Once a victim...

Around 300 Bhopal gas tragedy victims, including women and children, were assaulted by the police on May 17, 2005, while holding a peaceful protest demonstration to demand clean drinking water. Though the Supreme Court (sc) had ruled on May 7, 2004 that gas tragedy victims should be provided clean drinking …

Pollutant gourmet

scientists have deciphered the genome of Dehalococcoides ethenogens bacterium, which is the only microbe known to detoxify two of the most pervasive groundwater pollutants

Too violent?

about 4,000 villagers, including 2,000 women, attacked an oxalic acid plant of Star Oxochem Private Limited (sopl) at Chipri village in Maharashtra's Kolhapur district on January 1, 2005. They destroyed 18 four wheelers, torched four imported cars and smashed several computers and pieces of furniture: a loss of nearly Rs …

Why invite arsenic?

Arsenic in groundwater is becoming a difficult problem in many parts of the country. Many blame Jal Nigam officials and the public engineering department for the malaise. But this is quite akin to finding convenient scapegoats when the problem is actually quite complex. The point is people need groundwater: both …

Toxic trap

Cut one: 1989-90: a factory manufacturing h-acid freely dumps iron-sludge, which contaminates the groundwater of Rajasthan’s Bichchri village. Forced to depend entirely on water tankers, villagers begin, and finally win, a prolonged legal battle to get the factory shut down. Cut two: 2004. Pollutants from an oxalic acid plant renders …

Distress signal

karnataka treats its groundwater with utter callousness, a recently released government report illustrates. Not only has the water level in the state depleted further and the water quality declined, the area under exploitation has also increased. The situation in 84 of the 380 watershed areas in the state is critical. …

Drink this

admitting that the abandoned Union Carbide plant in Bhopal has polluted the groundwater of nearby areas, the Supreme Court (sc) has directed the Madhya Pradesh (mp) government to immediately start supplying drinking water by tankers to 12 colonies in the plant's vicinity. The directive on May 7, 2004, has come …

No more magic in Abra

"Our environment has been destroyed We seek answers to our questions What shall be the future Of the next generation?' (From a song by the Cordillera indigenous singing group) Singing doesn't come easy when the baton rests with the powerful and mighty. People of Cordillera, the Philippines are today seeking …

Evaluation of ground water quality of Bareilly city

The quality of ground water across the Bareilly city has been determined by analyzing different physico-chemical parameters. Alkalinity and hardness of groundwater is beyond the WHO limits. Water quality index of different sites is also calculated.

Widespread poisoning

Arsenic has contaminated groundwater in over 12 districts of Pakistan's Punjab and Sindh provinces. The groundwater of the region was declared "dangerous' by the Pakistan Council for Research on Water Resources, which has conducted detailed studies and sub-soil water analysis in collaboration with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Arsenic …

No alternative

redesigning of underground fuel tanks to stop the leakage of mtbe (methyl tertiary butyl ether) is a better way to avoid groundwater contamination than replacing the carcinogenic additive with alternatives, as per a research. The study shows that mtbe alternatives pose as much of a threat as their predecessor. mtbe …

Clouds of injustice: Bhopal disaster 20 years on

Twenty years ago around half a million people were exposed to toxic chemicals during a catastrophic gas leak from a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India. More than 7,000 people died within days. A further 15,000 died in the following years. Around 100,000 people are suffering chronic and debilitating illnesses for …

BHOPAL: the bad dream continues

Bhopal is the name of the place where, once upon a time, a vast plume of poison burst upon 5,20,000 people. But that happened 20 years ago. Now Bhopal is a metaphor for disaster, industrial and human. It has been the object of much speculation and typically endless litigation. A …

Serving the symptom

As the Bhopal tragedy enters its twentieth year, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has identified the country's newest disease: the Bhopal Gas Disease. Down To Earth has exclusive access to an unpublished ICMR document which defines the disease as "a condition of ill-health due to exposure to Bhopal's …

Unsettling

Asha, 24, visits the Bhopal Memorial Trust Hospital once every 2 days. She has a hole in her heart. But the hospital won't operate her, because she has overshot the hospital quota of Rs two lakh per victim. She cannot get herself operated privately. "I have spent the compensation of …

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