Excerpt: In 2018, the Central Pollution Control Board identified a total of 351 polluted river stretches. Of the 640 districts in the country, the groundwater in 276 is polluted due to fluoride, in 387 due to nitrate, in 113 due to heavy metals, and in 61 districts, it’s due to uranium. *Read the full article […]
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Rajasthan’s Canal Project is the Test Centre Must Pass to Show its Commitment Towards Water Crisis
New Delhi: The fifth Governing Council meeting of NITI Aayog held in New Delhi on June 15 gave a new visible thrust on water. On one hand, Prime Minister Narendra Modi listed water only second to “the goal of making India a 5 trillion-dollar economy by 2014”, and on the other, Rajasthan chief minister Ashok […]
‘Hindon polluted, 40% living near it infected’
Excerpts: GHAZIABAD: A National Green Tribunal-appointed committee on solid waste management has said that “35-40%” people residing around the Hindon may be inflicted with various water-borne diseases as untreated waste is being allowed to flow into the river. The committee, which recently surveyed Ghaziabad, Noida and Greater Nodia, has dubbed the Hindon a “dead river” […]
Nalgonda: Geological Survey of India scientists study fluoride-affected areas
Nalgonda: A group of 35 scientists from Geological Survey of India Hyderabad visited the fluoride-affected areas in Narketpally and Munugodu areas of Nalgonda district. The two-day tour ended on Friday. The scientists during their visit found that abnormal high values of fluoride in the borewells and dug wells, and came to the conclusion that micro-level […]
Rajasthan: Excess fluoride adds to water woes in Dausa
High quantities of fluoride in water lead to fluorosis, kidney stone and constipation among other ailments. HIGHLIGHTS High quantities of fluoride in water leads a host of ailments such as fluorosis, stones and constipation Government has installed RO plants where villagers can buy 20 lt of water for Rs 4 Villagers have demanded a permanent […]
Will one single water ministry solve India’s water woes?
Keeping in line with its promise before the 2019 elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led central government has merged departments to create one single ministry to address water-related issues. The new ministry would focus on issues like cleaning of rivers including Ganga, ensuring piped water supply to all households, access to safe drinking water and river […]
PHE dept to install portable water filters in Supebeda
State government is working on a project to install portable water-filters in the taps and wells at Supebeda village to ensure that the villagers get quality drinking water. “We are working on a project under which portable water-filters will be installed in the water-supply taps in Supebeda and nearby villages. These manual filters will not […]
JNARDDC comes up with a process to get silica, aluminium fluoride from coal fly ash
Silica is useful for structural materials, microelectronics and pharmaceutical industry Jawaharlal Nehru Aluminium Research Development and Design Centre (JNARDDC), Nagpur has developed a process to convert coal fly ash into useful products such as high purity silica and aluminium fluoride at laboratory scale. Pure silica has many uses such as it is utilised in structural […]
Swipe To Drink (water ATMs)
Parag Agarwal, Founder and MD, JanaJal (Photograph by Shekhar Ghosh) Life is tough for residents of the 1,800 unauthorised colonies scattered across Delhi as they do not have access to piped water supply. In these areas, there is no sewerage also due to lack of legal property ownership and transfer rights. But of late, people […]
Hackathon at IIT Kharagpur showcases simple methods of water purification
NEW DELHI, MAY 15: A team of postgraduate students and research scholars from the School of Water Resources, Jadavpur University (Debdas Chowdhury, Saurabh Kumar Basak and Priyabrata Mandal) emerged winners of the Rural Drinking Water Technology Hackathon. It was organized by the Rural Development Centre (funded by the Design Innovation Centre) of IIT Kharagpur. They […]