The official attitude towards fluoride-laced groundwater is best seen in the manner the state has gone about solutions. In a 1999 nationwide study New Delhi-based Fluorosis Research and Rural

When Down To Earth correspondents nidhi jamwal and d b manisha started filing their reports on the problem of fluoride and arsenic in groundwater, we were shocked by the extent of the problem

Manufacturers sign declaration at the Sixth Conference of Parties CoP 6 to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal

Environmental groups in the US and Canada have got together and filed a suit in a federal district court in Washington DC, challenging the US' continued use of wood preservatives containing arsenic

Bangladesh s arsenic mitigation project, overseen by UN agencies, is seriously flawed

Arsenic has made deep inroads into the country via its aquifers

Case filed against British geological body for not providing information on arsenic contamination in Bangladesh s wells

Researchers create genetically modified plants to decontaminate arsenic polluted sites

Scientists find high arsenic content in Haryana s groundwater

The controversy about the high arsenic content in Lucknow's water has taken a new turn. The contention of M C Saxena, director, Environmental Research Laboratory, that the water contains 10,000 parts

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