Pune In 2004, Dilip Mehta, a villager in Phursungi had to discontinue using water from his well. Reason: water was found to be unfit for consumption. Mehta said the well had been changing colour for years.

Rajahmundry, March 22: Coastal villages in West Godavari are being plagued by high saline content in their drinking water due to seepage of sea water into the ground water. Sources say that the main reason behind this is excessive quarrying of sand on the Godavari river bed.

Kinnow growers in Abohar have been forced to switch to cultivating vegetables; houses in villages have developed cracks

Hexavalent chromium released from an ancillary unit of Hero Honda is contaminating the groundwater of Sehraul and nearby villages in Gurgaon, with the Haryana Pollution Control Board doing little to contain spread of the toxic material.

The state government admitted in Vidhan Sabha on Monday that ground water in three districts had arsenic which was posing health hazards to the people of that region.

Waste liquid material from chemical and pesticide factories in Mandhor village, close to the city, has started polluting the village handpumps.

A few villagers met officials of the Haryana pollution Control Board at Panchayat Bhawan today. The chairman of the board addressed a meeting of panches and sarpanches on the precautions to be taken to check pollution in their villages.

Priti Narayan

Total dissolved salts, chloride-alkalinity ratio gone down: study

PUDUCHERRY: A recent study suggests that quality of groundwater in areas along the coast in Puducherry may have improved to a certain extent over the last 15 years.

Disobeying orders by Haryana Minister for Environment Captain Ajay Singh Yadav to close an ancillary unit of Hero Honda company in Sarhol village of Gurgaon, the State Pollution Control Board (PCB) has allowed the reopening of the unit that was found to be contaminating groundwater of the village and endangering the lives of locals.

Kanas: Before the onset of the New Year, 22 panchayats of the Kanas block have been facing acute shortage of drinking water. No measures are being taken up by the Rural Development department or by the panchayats. Scarcity of drinking water is a regular phenomenon in the block, claiming human lives every year, afflicting people with gastro-intestinal diseases due to lack of safe drinking water.