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 …

What goes down must come up

in february 1999, a Delhi newspaper reported that a tubewell sunk to a depth of about 200 feet (61 metres) by Suruchi Dyeing Udyog, a factory south of the G T Road in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, was yielding yellow-coloured water. Arun Agarwal, the factory’s owner, was quoted in the report …

Disasters in the making?

dte reporters met the pollution control authorities in some industrial areas of the country, spoke to the local people about the effects of pollution and met representatives of the civil society to gauge the extent of the problem on the socio-economic level. They also got in touch with industrialists, but …

Tankers from hell

For the people of Patancheru and Bollaram in Medak district, what goes around comes around. But with an evil twist. At night, tankers are used to carry effluents to the neighbouring state Karnataka, which is about 25 km away, or to far-off places for dumping. The same tankers supply drinking …

Killers at large

There are several industrial units in Medak district of Andhra Pradesh (AP) that have directly or indirectly polluted groundwater. AP Pollution Control Board (APPCB) officials reveal that Reliance Cellulose is releasing effluents with very high chemical oxygen demand levels into a nearby stream. Standard Organics of Patancheru used to pump …

Double whammy

Adulteration of milk is not a new problem in the town of Bulandshahar in western Uttar Pradesh (UP). However, it is leading to another type of slow poisoning. Local people complain that dairies pump their effluents containing urea and other chemical additives into the ground. "Some workers from a dairy …

How did it go wrong?

"Industrialists believe it is cheaper to purchase the regulators than abide by the regulations,' says K Purushotham Reddy of the Hyderabad-based ngo Citizens Against Pollution. "If I am not wrong, more than 90 per cent of gpcb officials are corrupt. In the present circumstances, only God can save Gujarat from …

We need a different approach

How serious is the groundwater pollution problem in India? Groundwater pollution is very difficult to evaluate as till now, there is no nationwide survey or study of it except the few studies done by CPCB. On that basis I can say that it is very serious and needs special attention. …

No way back

Once polluted by industry, groundwater is very difficult to clean up. This is the lesson learnt from the Bichhri experience. Situated about 12 km from Udaipur, the groundwater of Bichhri, spread over an area of 300 hectares, is stark red. And as the groundwater moves naturally to other aquifers, it …

Manimata and mercury: the rude awakening

It was like the loss of innocence, one of the first incidents to open humankind's eye to what industrial pollution can do. One of the earliest tragedies caused by chemical pollution was the painful death and disability that afflicted thousands of people living around Japan's Minamata Bay in the 1950s-60s. …

Effluent treatment plants have not proved effective

What is the status of groundwater in the industrial areas of Andhra Pradesh? Studies conducted by the State Groundwater Authority and National Geophysics Research Institute, Hyderabad, in the Bolaram and Patancheru areas, Medak district, have shown groundwater to be contaminated by high levels of toxic organics, chlorides, sulphates and arsenic. …

Lethal leak

Plutonium is one of the most lethal substances known to us. Unfortunately, huge quantities of this radioactive element are produced in certain types of nuclear reactors and has to be stored in safe places. Because of its low solubility in water, it was presumed that it would pose no danger …

POISONOUS GROUNDWATER

Groundwater in 44 districts of Nepal is contaminated with arsenic, according to the country's Public Health Engineering Department. In some areas, the arsenic content is 10 times higher than the acceptable level. Out of the 60 districts where groundwater tests were carried out, only 16 were found free from harmful …

Drugged drink

the water in our taps may be contaminated with drugs that are as bad as pesticides. And guess how they get into drinking water? Most of the drugs we consume are excreted through urine. "Between 30 to 90 per cent of an administered dose of antibiotics to humans and animals …

A victim`s saga

WHEN THE health of the Earth itself is jeopardised. The health of its inhabitants

Bloody waters

thirty-year-old Rakesh (not his real name), a resident of Dosigaon village in Ratlam district, Madhya Pradesh ( mp ), is reconciled to the fact that he will never get married. "We have been searching for a suitable match for the past eight years, but our efforts have been in vain,' …

Heavy metals in water

ground water survey by the Central Ground Water Board in Delhi has revealed the presence of heavy metals like cadmium, chromium, lead and iron in excess of the prescribed standards. This was revealed by the Union agriculture minister, Som Pal. The minister said that the government had contemplated several short-term …

Deadly groundwater

THE rapidly deteriorating quality of groundwater in parts of Delhi is due to hazardous substances leached from landfill sites, according to Central Ground Water Authority (CGWA). The water is released by over about 1400 hazardous industries. Three lands sites of Delhi - Ghazipur, Bhalswa and Okhla - are contaminated with …

A Tale of Two Rivers

NOYYAL and Bhavani. Rivers both. One is dubbed dead. The other is one of India"s most polluted rivers. One is seasonal, the other perennial. Both emerge from the Western Ghats and empty into the Cauvery in Tamil Nadu. The two rivers may be minute in size as compared to great …

STOP PRESS

The Green Bench of Madras high court has decided to crack down on Industry. The bench has recently directed TNPCB to Imniediately seal highly polluting Industrial units which are within the radius at one km of any water body.

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