Puri is a small coastal town of Orissa in India on the Bay of Bengal. The town is famous for Lord Shree Jagannath temple built in 12 th century A.D. Over the years, floating population has been increasing. Tourism is the biggest industry and contributes to economic growth of the town. The environmental degradation is visible. Puri town is bestowed with groundwater aquifers. Intrusion of saline water in few wells occurs due to over pumping. The water table is high.

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has pulled up the state government for failing to implement measures to improve the sanitation and sewage management in Pandharpur, a big pilgrim centre.

In a strongly worded order passed by the western bench of the tribunal, the court has noted that a working plan submitted by the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) in September 2011 has not been implemented.

The Consumer Federation Tamil Nadu (CONFET) adopted a resolution at its general body meeting held here recently urging the authorities “to take penal measures against industries that are indiscrimi

Decline in water level more than 4 m is mostly prominent in the states of Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi and Andhra Pradesh according to this report on the ground water level scenario in India (Pre Monsoon 2013)

The High Court on Wednesday directed BBMP to submit a report on the time required to test the borewells in 110 villages within its limit.

Moga district was once declared dark zone of state

Heavy rainfall and late sowing of paddy for the past five years has helped reduce the rapid depletion of groundwater in Moga district that was once declared as a dark zone of Punjab by the Central Ground Water Board.

The worst fear of Vellalore residents has turned true as the ground water samples collected from the localities near the municipal corporation's dumpyard has indicated presence of ammonia, phosphat

Locals Say Water Drawn At Jangpura Parking Site Wasted

New Delhi: Jangpura’s three-storeyed parking lot, which has already been delayed by three years, is in the centre of a controversy again. The residents have alleged that when the contractor had excavated the place initially, groundwater sprang up and flooded the site. But instead of harvesting this water, the contractor installed pumps to flush this water into a drain.

This new paper bu Global Water Partnership presents an overview of the benefits of urban groundwater use, together with some insidious and persistent problems that groundwater can present for urban development.

In forty six wells >150 m deep, from across the arsenic-polluted area of south-central Bangladesh, groundwater composition remained unchanged between 1998 and 2011. No evidence of deteriorating water quality was found in terms of arsenic, iron, manganese, boron, barium or salinity over this period of 13 years. These deep tubewells have achieved operating lives of more than 20 years with minimal institutional support.

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