The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
March 30: Ineffective garbage management by Warangal Municipal Corporation (WMC) is adversely affecting the quality of drinking water in a few places as harmful chemicals like chromium and lead are said to have been found in excess quantity well above World Health Organisation (WHO) specifications. In a recent study done …
Sangeetha Samuel Like many wards in the City, now preparing for the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) elections, the erstwhile Frazer Town, now renamed as Pulakeshinagar, is also plagued by acute water crisis. Alongside beautiful parks, old Gulmohar trees, Sepian Victorian houses, and broad roads, Pulakeshinagar also has to deal …
Perchlorate is an environmental contaminant associated with the manufacture or use of aerospace fuels, explosives, and hypochlorite water disinfection products. Perchlorate inhibits iodide transport into the thyroid gland, which may reduce the synthesis of thyroid hormones critical to normal neurologic development. Exposure occurs in utero and through intake of contaminated …
Comparison has been made between the drinking water specifications as per IS 10500 - 1991, CPHEEO manual and the guidelines issued by WHO. There is a need to redefine some of the parameters of drinking water in our standards.
This document by Reach Out Water Solutions (ROWS) highlights the daily reality of people living in the slums of Mumbai and the inadequate water supply available to the 10 million slum residents to meet their daily requirements. It presents a business plan, namely the Slum Water Programme (SWP) that proposes …
With contaminated water being supplied in the potable water connections in district headquarters for the past few days, the threat to public health is on the rise. It is pertinent to mention that with the population of town increasing, the daily requirement of potable water in town is four MLD …
Sayantani Kar / November 26, 2009, 0:15 IST Pureit and Acquasure are fighting hard for leadership in the entry-level market. The advertisement war in the entry-level water purifier market saw a court-mandated pause last week, but the two main players
M K Sunil Kumar KOCHI: Are you worried about the colour of the drinking water that comes to your home? You need to be, because the water you're getting may not be very pure. Incessant rain, coupled with apathy on the part of the authorities, has caused a lot of …
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, …
SIVASAGAR, Nov 11: After the finding of a contaminated drinking water bottle manufactured by Tirupati Water Industries and the subsequent ultimatum by AASU to ban the sale of drinking water bottles manufactured by the company, authorities of the company has appealed to the student
Supplying water is costly but dealing with its waste is even more so. Realistic pricing means taking rates up 20 times! How will India supply drinking water in cities? Many would argue that the problem is not so much that of inadequate water as it is of the lack of …
COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore Corporation has stepped up the monitoring of the chlorine content in drinking water in view of the North-East Monsoon. Norms mandate 2 mg of chlorine in the tail-end areas of distribution, while the main service reservoirs (or overhead storage tanks) should have 5 mg.
Goa has long been facing a problem of contaminated water, but the response of the authorities is tardy, says FREDDY DIAS W ater is essential for life. We need to drink at least 2.5 litres of water daily, which means that every individual consumes nearly 68,475 litres of water in …
This article discusses the various components that impact effective water quality management in rural India. Experience suggests that redesigning of data management programme at village, district and at national level, upgradation of district-level laboratories and addressing technical, legal and institutional components should become the first steps in achieving effective water-quality …
The study aims at the assessment of drinking water quality in terms of some metal cations in and around Rangia town at different distances from the Rangia college. The results obtained were compared with drinking water standards (WHO, 2004 and BIS). Analysis of results showed high content of some metal …
