India

 DANGER zone

If no action is taken soon, a major ecological disaster is waiting to strike Panipat

Publication Date: 
14/09/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Pollution Control, Groundwater Pollution, Food Poisoning, Heavy Metals, Health Effects, Waste Treatment, Mercury, Aid, Paint And Dye Industry, HI Relocation, Governance, Government Of India (GOI), Haryana, Panipat, Corruption, Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP)
India

 The MTBE joke

The way to clean up the air is to pollute groundwater, according to the Indian government

Publication Date: 
14/09/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Pollution Control, Groundwater Pollution, Air Pollution, Drinking Water, Health Effects, Cancer, Petrol, MTBE, Legislation, Governance, CSE, United States Of America (US), India
Health

Contamination of drinking- water by arsenic in Bangladesh: a public health emergency

The contamination of groundwater by arsenic in Bangladesh is the largest poisoning of a population in history, with millions of people exposed. This paper describes the history of the discovery of arsenic in drinking-water in
Bangladesh and recommends intervention strategies. Tube-wells were installed to provide

Publication Date: 
31/08/2000
Allan H. Smith, Elena O. Lingas, Mahfuzar Rahman
Bulletin of the World Health Organization
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Tags:
Health, Arsenic, Bangladesh, Health Effects, Drinking Water, Groundwater Pollution, Groundwater Quality, Tubewells
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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Tags:
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

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