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 …
Legislators in Vidhan Sabha voiced concern over alarming increase in air and water pollution and demanded stringent action against those who were violating the laid norms.
Mumbai Smokeless tobacco products that are manufactured in India contain heavy metal, reveals a study report published in The Scientific World Journal. The study
For the last two decades the world has been trying to explain how arsenic leaches into groundwater in the Ganga-Meghna-Brahmaputra floodplain. Solutions, however, are very few. An estimated 100 million people are still at risk from contamination. The latest research says floodwaters can remove arsenic. A team headed by Linda …
NEW DELHI: An expert committee has decided to refer the housing complex project for industrial workers in Narela here for environment clearance to a higher authority with a pollution panel finding the level of arsenic within permissible limits in the ground water at the proposed site in Outer Delhi. Based …
Research on to minimise harmful effects Naveen S Garewal Tribune News Service Chandigarh, January 1 Punjab Agriculture University (PAU) scientists have achieved a major breakthrough in identifying reasons for the rapid spread of cancer in the state. Having identified arsenic in water as one of the major causes for abnormal …
Remediation of arsenic contaminated soil was studied in this work, experiments were carried out out using simulated soil contaminated arsenic treated with an extractant solution comprising of citric acid, oxalic acid, sodium hydroxide and sodium carbonate. Experiments were carried out by treating the soil with the extractant solution.
Arsenic contamination of groundwater has become alarming in the district with around 800 people affected with arsenic related diseases.The authorities have found 33,000 deep tube-wells with arsenic contamination and sealed those with red colour.According to a report of HID Bangladesh, a local NGO, 20 people died of arsenic-contaminated diseases and …
Arsenic in groundwater beyond allowable concentration of 0.05 mg/lit in some parts of India, has posed serious threat to well being of large section of people. As one of the major mitigation, the contaminant is being removed from extracted groundwater and then the water is pressed for essential use of …
The Centre on Wednesday announced that both industrial and residential areas will not have different standards for air quality norms. In a major move to bring down the air pollution levels, the Centre unveiled tougher new air quality norms. The revised guidelines have added five more hazardous chemicals in the …
The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has notified the Revised National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS), 2009, which provide a legal framework for control of air pollution and protection of public health. The revised norms have come 15 years after the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) had notified the …
Revised National Ambient Air Quality Standards 2009 released by the Ministry of Environment and Forests. As per these norms, the residential & industrial areas will have the same standards. Includes limits for benzene, ozone, benzopyrene, arsenic, nickel and ammonia not covered in 1994. See Also Document: National Ambient Air Quality …
Researchers have pinpointed the source of what is probably the worst mass poisoning in history, according to a study published on Sunday. For nearly three decades scientists have struggled to figure out exactly how arsenic was getting into the drinking water of millions of people in rural Bangladesh. The culprit, …
This paper investigates the adsorption of arsenic, As (III) and As (V) from water onto activated alumina (AA) which was used as an adsorbent in batch and column adsorption experiments and critically analyses the effect of various parameters, such as contact time, pH of water, adsorbent dose, and inlet arsenic …
With the 22 December 2008 collapse of a Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) ash pond in Kingston, Tennessee, and the arrival of the Obama administration the following month, the regulatory ground is shifting in regards to coal combustion waste (CCW), the millions of tons of waste left over each year from …
Arsenic is a carcinogen to which 35 million people in Bangladesh are chronically exposed. The enzymatic transfer of methyl groups to inorganic As (iAs) generates monomethylarsonic (MMA) and dimethylarsinic acids (DMA) and facilitates urinary As (uAs) elimination. This process is dependent on one-carbon metabolism, a pathway in which folate and …
For years, residents here complained about the yellow smoke pouring from the tall chimneys of the nearby coal-fired power plant, which left a film on their cars and pebbles of coal waste in their yards. Five states
