A total of 26 district-level Government laboratories have been established in Chhattisgarh for testing the purity of drinking water.During the last three years, 56,388 samples of ground water sourc
Uttar Pradesh government may be headed for troubled waters over failure to curb extensive ground water contamination in the Singrauli area of Sonbhadra.
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
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of Asim Sarode & Others Vs The Collector of Nanded & Others dated 07/07/2014 regarding excessive extraction of groundwater and floride affected areas in Nanded, Maharashtra.
A report `Rajasthan Action Plan on Climate Change' drafted recently by various departments of the state government with the help of TERI has also pointed out that the quality of ground water was a
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.
The groundwater level in the city and the district is on a steady downward curve perhaps due to the city’s heavy dependence on tubewells for harnessing of water sources.
BARC official said that the unsafe water sample can be further tested easily, to quantify the fluoride level roughly in order to know how unsafe it is.
