Water Resources

 FOLLOW UP

The people of Bichhri , a village

Publication Date: 
30/08/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Groundwater Pollution, Soil Capability, Water Resources, Water Harvesting, Public Participation, Rajasthan, Udaipur (D)
Wildlife

 Groundwater sullied

almost four million litres of used engine oil seeped into the soil and conta

Publication Date: 
30/05/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Groundwater Pollution, Land Degradation, Petrochemical Industry, Africa
India

 FOLLOW UP

Villagers from Ankleshwar in Gujarat showed samples of con

Publication Date: 
30/05/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Pollution Control, Groundwater Pollution, Waste Disposal, Legislation, Government Of India (GOI), Gujarat, Toxic Wastes
India

 CHEMICALS ALERT

Despite protests, a tainted company tries to set up a fungicide unit

Publication Date: 
14/04/2000
Down to Earth
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Groundwater Pollution, Pesticide Industry, Hazardous Products
Energy

 Groundwater pollution

residents of Tannery Road in Bangalore are facing a potable water crisis because tanneries located in the area are

Publication Date: 
14/12/1999
Down to Earth
Tags:
Groundwater Pollution, Slaughter House, Governance, Bangalore (D), Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP)
Environment

The Bhopal Legacy

The Union Carbide India Ltd. (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, which used to manufacture (among other products) the pesticide Sevin (carbaryl) gained world-wide recognition as a result of the tragic chemical disaster on the night of 2-3rd December

Publication Date: 
01/11/1999
Labunska, K., I.; Stephenson, A.; Brigden, Stringer
Greenpeace Research Laboratories
Tags:
Groundwater Pollution, Bhopal, Compensation, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Methyl Isocyanate (MIC), Union Carbide
Environment

The Bhopal legacy

In May 1999, Greenpeace International, along with the Bhopal-based NGOs Bhopal Group for Information and Action and Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sanghatana, carried out an investigation of the former UCIL site. Samples of soil were collected both from areas once used for waste disposal, and around the former Sevin plant, where a ruptured and leaking storage tank was found.

Publication Date: 
01/11/1999
& et al, Labunska, I., Stephenson, A., Brigden, K.
Greenpeace International
Tags:
Groundwater Pollution, Lead, Drinking Water, Pesticide Industry, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Union Carbide, Greenpeace, India
Health

Arsenic poisoning in the Ganges delta

The natural contamination of drinking water by arsenic needs to be urgently addressed.

Publication Date: 
06/10/1999
S. K. Acharyya, P. Chakraborty, S. Lahiri & et al
Nature
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Tags:
Health, Arsenic, Drinking Water, Groundwater Quality, Health Effects, Bangladesh, West Bengal, Indo-Gangetic Plains, Tubewells, Chemical Fertilisers, Groundwater Pollution, Sedimentation, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh
India

 Lead ing to disaster

Environmentally hazardous backyard smelting units swell as multinationals fail to recycle used batteries

Publication Date: 
14/09/1999
Down to Earth
Tags:
Groundwater Pollution, Air Pollution, Lead, Waste Conversion, India, Delhi, Waste Recycling
Industry

 What goes down must come up

It is a crime. Numerous factories deliberately inject untreated effluents directly into the ground, contaminating underground aquifers. Down To Earth got samples

Publication Date: 
30/08/1999
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Groundwater Pollution, Groundwater, Wells, Heavy Metals, Arsenic, Health Effects, Waste Disposal, Industry, Governance, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Haryana, Corruption

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