Arsenic Poisoning

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding elephant deaths in Bandhavgarh National Park attributed to Kodo poisoning, 10/01/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zone Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Ujjwal Sharma Vs Union of India & Others dated 10/01/2025. An application was registered on the basis of a news item titled "1 Kodo poisoning behind elephant deaths in MPs Bandhavgarh All you need to know" …

DEEP TUBEWELLS

Five special type of deep-tubewells are being installed in Sherpur municipal area in Bangladesh to supply arsenic-free water to the residents. The 305-metre deep tube wells were inaugurated by municipality chairperson M A Samad recently. The water supply section of the municipality is implementing the Dutch-aided project. Another 20 such …

Dhaka

Nearly half of Bangladesh's 130 million population will get a reprieve following the recent successful research in the treatment of arsenic contaminated water. Called the Direct Coprecipitation Filtration ( dcf ), "the technique uses an iron coagulate tablet that is immersed into a bucket of water,' said Xiaoguang Meng, an …

POISONOUS WATERS

According to the sources in the Public Health and Engineering Department (PHED), Bangladesh, arsenic, a chemical which causes black foot disease, has been found in 44 of the 64 districts. Over 25,000 tests conducted couritry-wide showed that'21 per cent of the tested tubewells were contaminated above the maximum permissible limit …

Arsenic in groundwater in seven districts of West Bengal, India

Arsenic has been found in groundwater in seven districts of West Bengal covering an area 37,493 km having about 34 million population. Our survey indicates that 560 villages are arsenic-affected and more than a million people are drinking arsenic contaminated water and more than 200,000 people are suffering from arsenic-related …

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