Patancheru, near Hyderabad, India, is a major production site for the global bulk drug market. Approximately 90 manufacturers send their wastewater to a common treatment plant in Patancheru. Extraordinary high levels of a wide range of pharmaceuticals have recently been demonstrated in the treated effluent. As little as 0.2% of this effluent can strongly reduce the growth rate of tadpoles, but the underlying mechanisms of toxicity are not known. To begin addressing how the effluent affects aquatic vertebrates, rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) were exposed to 0.2% effluent for 5 d.

Less than a month after Rahul Gandhi warned against

July 26: The project to bring Godavari water to the city is likely to be delayed as the water board does not have the money to execute the project.
The water board sought over Rs 1,100 crore for this year for the project, but the government allotted it only Rs 250 crore in the Budget last week.

July 22: The major irrigation minister, Mr Ponnala Lakshmaiah, has proposed to develop the navigation system for integrating all the major projects on the Godavari river.

July 14: The state government has for the first time decided to take the help of Opposition parties to fight against the construction of illegal projects across Krishna and Godavari rivers by Karnataka and Maharashtra.

July 7: The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Tuesday expressed its concern over the indiscriminate sanction of individual permits to carry sand from the Godavari river in East Godavari district.

June 9: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has informed the state government that it cannot fund the Godavari water project. The corporation was asked to provide Rs 960 crore to the water board over a period of two years for the execution of the Rs 3,375 crore Phase-I of the Godavari project aimed at bringing 10 TMC of water to the city by the end of 2011.

June 4: Climatic conditions in the state are clearly worsening. In fact, environmentalists say that the state capital is the sixth worst polluted city in the country.
Alarmingly, the Krishna and Godavari rivers, that contribute around 90 per cent of the state

May 24: The Maoist movement across the borders of Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra and Andhra has increased as the river Godavari dried up. The Warangal superintendent of police, Mr V.C. Sajjanar, said,

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