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" …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
