Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …
A Unicef report has shown high levels fluoride in groundwater sources in Dharmapuri and Krishnagiri A new report has confirmed the unacceptably high fluoride content in groundwater sources in Dharmapuri and Krishnagiri districts. The Hogenakkal drinking water scheme was conceived over 40 years ago to specifically address this problem in …
Pune In 2004, Dilip Mehta, a villager in Phursungi had to discontinue using water from his well. Reason: water was found to be unfit for consumption. Mehta said the well had been changing colour for years. Like Mehta, residents of Phursungi and Uruli Devachi and nearby villages claimed the garbage-dumping …
Rajahmundry, March 22: Coastal villages in West Godavari are being plagued by high saline content in their drinking water due to seepage of sea water into the ground water. Sources say that the main reason behind this is excessive quarrying of sand on the Godavari river bed. According to ground …
Kinnow growers in Abohar have been forced to switch to cultivating vegetables; houses in villages have developed cracks The problem of rising levels of groundwater in Abohar has become a cause of concern. Thousands of residents as well as area under cultivation in 150 villages have been affected. Many have …
Hexavalent chromium released from an ancillary unit of Hero Honda is contaminating the groundwater of Sehraul and nearby villages in Gurgaon, with the Haryana Pollution Control Board doing little to contain spread of the toxic material. The board drew flak after it allowed the unit, Munjal Showa, to reopen in …
There is talk of a new generation of filmmakers in Mumbai sensitive to the realities of an India that popular cinema has left untouched till now. Health conditions have recently found their way into film scripts. Diseases like Asperger syndrome, dyslexia and anterograde amnesia have featured in popular films— My …
Pabani Pradhan, 42, looks 60. She can’t walk on her own. Joginath Pradhan, 60, Pabani’s neighbour, uses crutches. Sukant, 24, the sole breadwinner of a family of six, cannot move out of the village to fit tiles in people’s houses any more because his body has become stiff. Fluorosis has …
The state government admitted in Vidhan Sabha on Monday that ground water in three districts had arsenic which was posing health hazards to the people of that region. Rural Development Minister Dadoo Prasad said three districts
Waste liquid material from chemical and pesticide factories in Mandhor village, close to the city, has started polluting the village handpumps. A few villagers met officials of the Haryana pollution Control Board at Panchayat Bhawan today. The chairman of the board addressed a meeting of panches and sarpanches on the …
Priti Narayan Total dissolved salts, chloride-alkalinity ratio gone down: study PUDUCHERRY: A recent study suggests that quality of groundwater in areas along the coast in Puducherry may have improved to a certain extent over the last 15 years. The study, conducted by an official of the Puducherry Pollution Control Committee …
Disobeying orders by Haryana Minister for Environment Captain Ajay Singh Yadav to close an ancillary unit of Hero Honda company in Sarhol village of Gurgaon, the State Pollution Control Board (PCB) has allowed the reopening of the unit that was found to be contaminating groundwater of the village and endangering …
Kanas: Before the onset of the New Year, 22 panchayats of the Kanas block have been facing acute shortage of drinking water. No measures are being taken up by the Rural Development department or by the panchayats. Scarcity of drinking water is a regular phenomenon in the block, claiming human …
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 …
Physicochemical characteristics of groundwater and municipal water in Amalner town by taking water samples from five different stations. The study was carried out by collecting four groundwater samples (Two open well, two bore well) and one municipal water sample during November 2007-February 2008. The results were compared with standards prescribed …
River Krishni is highly polluted. The investigation was “to study the effect of pollution in River Krishni on the quality of groundwater abstracted through shallow and deep hand pumps placed in the close vicinity of River Krishni”. One such affected Village Chanedna Maal was selected for the study. Water samples …
Mumbai: Following the civic body's drive to snap all illegal tap water connections and booster pipes due to water shortage in the city, desperate slum families in Northeast Mumbai are now digging wells to tap the ground water, which is allegedly contaminated with sewage residues. According to health officials of …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday emphasised the need for greater synergy between policies relating to water resource management and that of agriculture, if the country wants to double the farm sector growth. Maintaining that improvement in irrigation is key to increasing agricultural production and better strategy for sustainable water …
