Report by the Central Groundwater Authority in the matter of Suo Moto arsenic found in groundwater in 25 states dated November 18, 2024. When the matter was listed before the NGT, August 7, 2024, wherein CGWA stated that the reports from seven states/UTs namely Maharashtra, Nagaland, Jharkhand, Tripura, Gujarat, Odisha …
There are few places in China more notorious for environmental pollution than Taiyuan. The capital of the northern province of Shanxi is at the heart of the country’s coal industry and has long suffered from unrelenting smog. So when Foxconn Technology Group, the world’s largest electronics contract manufacturer by revenue, …
This document provides a framework to support improved access to safe water for low-income communities through the enhancement of water facilities. It is intended to help WaterAid’s partner organisations in Nepal deliver safe water facilities to the communities they work with. This document will reinforce WaterAid’s initiatives for ensuring the …
The government with help of the World Bank is preparing a project to improve the sustainability of water and sanitation services in rural areas. The proposed project, 'Bangladesh Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project' (BRWSSP), aims to increase sustainable access to safe water supply and sanitation in rural areas, said …
The Supreme Court on Wednesday gave the Tamil Nadu Government a week's time to submit its comments on the environment impact study by an institute on the Sterlite Industries' plant in Tamil Nadu. The study on the compliance of environmental norms by Sterlite's plant at Tuticorin was done by the …
KRISHNAGAR, 7 AUG: The state public health engineering department (PHE) today started two water supply projects at Kashiadanga in Nakashipara and Bhagyabantapur in Kaliganj to provide arsenic-free drinking water to the residents of the areas. The public health engineering minister, Mr Subrata Mukherjee, and minister for commerce and industries Mr …
The Court of Appeal of Sri Lanka today has granted permission to hear a petition filed on imported agro chemicals that contain arsenic. The court granted permission for the petition, filed by the Center for Environmental Justice, seeking an investigation into the agro chemicals that contain arsenic and an order …
KOLKATA, 3 AUG: The state health department has drafted a Vision Statement 2011 which identifies loopholes in the state's healthcare sector. The Vision Statement will be presented before the chief minister at a meeting on 11 August. Senior health department officials included in the statement a road map for the …
The office of the Comilla civil surgeon informed that it had recently detected more than 6,500 patients with arsenic contamination at 14 upazilas in Comilla. According to them, the biggest chunk of patients came from three upazilas, namely Monoharganj, Laksam and Muradnagar. Over 4,500 patients were diagnosed with arsenic in …
This new CWC report provides the water quality scenario of our rivers viz-a-viz BIS and other Standards. It is based on the average values obsercec during 2001-2011 at 371 monitoring stations of CWC on almost all major, medium and minor rivers in India. This report by the Central Water Commission …
Environment and Human Health gives a comprehensive review of the related literature in order to aid understanding of the (missing) link between the environment and health. Given the exhaustive literature on the subject the paper focuses on the water‐related and land‐related diseases namely in the fast growing and poor countries. …
The government plans to amend the Pesticide Control Act, which was introduced in 1980. Agriculture Minister Mahinda Yapa Abeywardane said that the Pesticides Control Act No. 33 was 30 years old and thereby the contents of pesticides are monitored by using old technologies. Therefore, to find solutions to pesticide-related problems, …
The government will amend the Control of Pesticides Act to find solutions to problems relating to pesticides, said Agriculture Minister Mahinda Yapa Abeywardane at a press conference at his ministry recently. It is permitted to import, packaging, labeling, storage, formulation, transport, sale and use of pesticides according to the Control …
The Asia Arsenic Network (AAN) conducted a project named "Sustainable Arsenic Mitigation under Integrated Local Government Systems in Jessore" under a JICA program . Through the project, the AAN aimed at establishing the community initiative and developing the supporting system involving the Local Government Institutions and the Government Agencies (Department …
KOLKATA, 11 JULY: The state public health engineering department has decided to set up a surface drinking water project to provide arsenic-free sweet drinking water to the people of arsenic-affected areas of South 24-Parganas. Recently, the MLAs of seven Assembly constituencies met the public health engineering minister, Mr Subrata Mukherjee, …
The objective was to determine whether the installation of deep tube wells to reduce exposure to groundwater arsenic in rural Bangladesh had an effect on the incidence of childhood diarrhoeal disease.
The pioneer scientific research and development organization in Sri Lanka, the Industrial Technology Institute (ITI) has said that no arsenic was found in the local rice samples it tested. According to the Director of ITI, Dr. A.M. Mubarak, the rice samples submitted to the ITI by the Rice Research Institute …
The Sri Lankan government says it would promote organic farming as a precaution to prevent any threat that could arise from pesticides that may contain arsenic. Agriculture Minister Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena has said agro chemicals containing banned substances would not be allowed to reach the local market. However, Abeywardena has …
Adverse impact of climate change has been posing a serious threat to the overall public health especially relating to water and sanitation in the region including the vast barind tract. To face the natural catastrophe, substantial and sustainable promotion of water and sanitation related modern technologies have become an urgent …
