<p>Report by the Central Groundwater Authority in the matter of Suo Moto arsenic found in groundwater in 25 states dated November 18, 2024.</p> <p>When the matter was listed before the NGT, August 7,
MANGALDAI, June 25 – The Public Health Engineering Department will ensure flouride and arsenic-free drinking water by the end of 2014, for which the department has already adopted an exclusive project
Green cadets in schools across Ernakulam district will soon be part of a campaign to promote rainwater harvesting. Designed as part of the National Green Corps project, the aim of the initiative is to involve the youngsters in conservation programmes in the society. As part of the first phase of the programme, school students will distribute leaflets highlighting the need to set up rainwater harvesting units in homes.
Waking up to the menace of water contamination and unabated cases of Japanese Encephalitis (JE), the Centre has decided to undertake a pilot project in 60 districts spread over five states where `525 crores will be spent in 2012-13 to improve the quality of water. The Centre has also agreed to sign an agreement with the World Bank for a $500 million worth grant for expansion of rural drinking water. “After decades of witnessing cases of Japanese Encephalitis and Acute Encephalitis (AE) in some of the states, we have decided to improve the quality of drinking water, with an initial allocation of `525 crores.
Jaipur: The draft report of Rajasthan State Action Plan on Climate Change has brought out some alarming facts about the water situation in the state. According to the report, the state has the highest probability of drought occurrence in the country. It also falls within areas having greatest climate sensitivity, maximum vulnerability and lowest adaptive capacity. According to the report, “high dependency on groundwater has resulted in its overexploitation, with nearly 80% of groundwater witnessing depletion. The quality of groundwater has also progressively deteriorated. The stage of groundwater exploitation which was 35% in 1984 has reached a level of 138% in 2008
AHMEDABAD: The Union government has decided to set up Fluoride Mitigation Centre in the state. The Centre is likely to come up in Gandhinagar. The announcement was made at the Conference of state ministers and secretaries dealing with drinking water and sanitation. The conference was held in New Delhi. Earlier, in a reply to the question of BJP Rajya Sabha members, the Union Government had said that a detailed project proposal for the establishment of Fluoride Mitigation Centre in Gandhinagar had been received by the ministry of drinking water and sanitation in November 2011.
A bottom-up view of the health conditions and services in six states – three performing and three not-so-well performing ones – was arrived at through a study by a multidisciplinary team with varied experiences
A large population, especially children, in 27 of the 50 Madhya Pradesh districts are threatened by the fluorosis menace as people in these districts are being forced to drink water with excessive fluoride,
Around 30 per cent of the groundwater resource in the state is unfit for both drinking and agriculture, a fact that has sparked concern in the groundwater department authorities since water sources in
NEW DELHI, May 7 – UNICEF has reported arsenic contamination in ground water in 18 districts of Assam and fluoride contamination in five districts. Based on information from Chief Engineer (PHE) of the
HYDERABAD: After designing and commissioning several low-cost groundwater defluoridation plants in flurosis -affected villages of Andhra Pradesh, the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology is now looking
