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Jharkhand, where most rural and semi-urban pockets and even some urban neighbourhoods are plagued by arsenic and fluoride contamination, received its first state-of-the-art water-testing laboratory on Thursday. Drinking water and sanitation minister Jai Prakash Bhai Patel threw open the hi-tech facility at PHED Colony in Hinoo in the heart of Ranchi. Sprawling over 2,600sqft, the […]

Political pressure may impact the project, feel victims. The activists fighting for safe drinking water supply to fluoride-hit habitations in the district and the victims fear that political pressure from other States could see the prestigious project being shifted out of the State. The proposed Regional Fluoride Mitigation and Research Centre (RFMRC) in Nalgonda district […]

Animal Husbandry Minister T B Jayachandra, on Thursday, said a few countries had rejected milk produced from Kolar district due to fluoride content above the permissible limit. Intervening during a discussion on child rights in the Legislative Council, Jayachandra said over exploitation of groundwater in villages of Kolar had resulted in cattle being exposed to […]

Regional Centre for Development Cooperation (RCDC) has alleged that the state government provide incorrect information in the Assembly regarding fluoride contamination of Drinking Water. In a press statement RCDC said that, “From media coverage of Odisha Assembly proceeding, Regional Centre for Development Cooperation (RCDC) has learnt that fluoride contamination of drinking issue came up for […]

BHUBANESWAR: Rural development minister Badri Narayan Patra on Tuesday told the assembly that the government identified around 739 fluoride-affected villages in 15 districts and was trying to provide them safe drinking water. Replying to a question, the minister said most affected areas have been provided with safe drinking water from different sources. He said the […]

One in 10 sources of drinking water in the State has turned “non-potable” from high concentrations of fluoride, according to an extensive survey of groundwater quality in Karnataka sponsored by the Union Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation during 2009–14. Tests on 41,368 water samples found that 4,039 sources have fluoride well above the permissible […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s new government today pledged 131 billion rupees ($2.2 billion) in spending on water projects to improve supplies and the condition of the Ganges, India’s largest river. Asia’s third-biggest economy will develop watersheds, build more pumping stations and start to clean the Ganga, blighted by raw sewage along much of its 2,525-kilometer […]

Karnataka government has released Rs 86.70 crore during 2013-14 and Rs 100 crore for 2014-15 for emergent works approved through Task Force Committees to provide piped drinking water in fluoride and arsenic affected areas, state assembly was informed today. Karnataka Rural Development and Panchayatraj Minister H K Patil said revival works like drilling of new […]

Of the 341 blocks in the State, 81 blocks have water with more arsenic than the permissible limit and 49 blocks with more fluoride than the standard value. North 24 Parganas district, where about 20 blocks are affected with arsenic contamination, is the worst affected and is followed by Nadia, where 17 blocks and Murshidabad […]