Pollution of ground water in Bangalore city has touched alarming levels with unacceptable levels of hardness, fluoride, nitrate and chromium recorded in a recent study by the Geological Survey of India. Citizens face the risk of kidney, liver, lung and brain damage, even as the blood is starved of oxygen due to various pollutants. Children […]
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Aditya Birla Group Plans To Sells It’s Stake In Tanfac
The Aditya Birla group is planning to sell its 25% stake in Tanfac Industries, a fluorine chemical JV with the Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation, TOI states. The company is in talks with Arvind Mafatlal-owned Navin Flourine International and Inox group-promoted Gujarat Fluorochemicals to sell its stake in the JV. The JV was incorporated in […]
Stalin assails water project delay
We don’t want to politicise the issue, he says Former Deputy Chief Minister and DMK Treasurer M.K. Stalin has assailed the inordinate delay in the implementation of the Rs. 1928.80-crore Hogenakkal Drinking Water and Fluorosis Mitigation Scheme with the financial assistance of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) here on Thursday. Addressing the party’s Lok […]
Thousands affected by skeletal fluorosis in Karbi Anglong
Thousands of villagers residing in border areas of Karbi Anglong and Nagaon district have been affected by skeletal fluorosis due to ingestion of excess fluoride with drinking water generally obtained from underground source. According to a study conducted by Akashi Ganga Welfare Society, an NGO based in Nagaon district of Assam and the Hojai sub […]
10 acres for Fluoride Mitigation Centre
District administration has allotted ten acres of land at Malkapuram village in Chowtupal mandal to establish a Fluoride Mitigation Centre here. National Institute of Nutrition, and Central Public Works department officials recently visited the area and expressed their satisfaction. The centre will initiate the construction with an amount of `100 crore. An additonal amount of […]
High fluoride found in water in 8 more villages in Bastar
RAIPUR: The problem of fluoride contamination in Chhattisgarh continues unabated as eight more villages in Bastar Division have been found with high concentrations of the sat in ground water, making it unfit for human consumption. Though the Public Health Engineering Department has started supplying water through tankers to the affected villages, bringing the total number […]
Groundwater highly polluted in most parts of Delhi: Report
NEW DELHI: Despite schemes like rainwater harvesting, Delhi’s groundwater quality has only worsened. According to the recently released ‘Ground Water Year Book 2011-12’ by the Central Ground Water Board has found that Nitrate concentrations in some parts of the city are as high as 1500 mg/l. This can have grave health impacts as the concentrations […]
Garhwa: Fluorosis hit villages to get potable water
GARHWA: After being neglected for the past several years, the residents of fluorosis affected Pratappur, Darmi, Patsa and Mainaha villages in Garhwa block for whom safe drinking water has become a distant dream, heaved a sigh of relief – thanks to the initiatives taken by the district administration. Now, the villagers will get two tankers […]
West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh & Karnataka: SLOW POISON
Arsenic and fluoride contaminated water has condemned millions to live wasted lives in West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. Business Line visited several villages in the affected regions for this special report by A. Srinivas. Sixty-nine-year-old Renubala Ari of Deganga village in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district is counting her last days. But it […]
Jharkhand in deep water as crisis worsens in summer
RANCHI: A large part of Jharkhand is facing severe water crisis even before the summer has properly set in. Groundwater level in rural as well as urban areas in the state has decreased In Siyar village under Gomia block in Bokaro, around 50 tribal families have to tread 1km and stand in a queue for […]