There is a marked fall in groundwater table
Underground drainage project progressing slowly
CUDDALORE: The Tamil Nadu Science Forum has voiced concern over the fast-depleting groundwater level in Cuddalore. At a district conference held here recently, the forum passed a resolution urging the authorities to take speedy measures to reverse the trend.

Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit

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Residents of Virugambakkam say they get dirty water from hand-pumps

To concentrate on vulnerable segments of Cauvery

DINDIGUL: Gandhigram Rural University will take up studies on sand mining in rivers in Tamil Nadu, particularly the Cauvery, said S.M. Ramasamy, Vice-Chancellor, Gandhigram Rural University.

Kuzhikandam creek/P K Jeevan Jose. Reema Narendran
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Close on the heels of the International POPs Elimination Network (IPEN) marking Eloor industrial area one of the toxic hotspot for persistent organic pollutant (POP), the Kerala State Council for Science Technology

The water quality information systems are being developed to manage the water quality from a point or nonpoint source of pollution. The project on

This research paper examines the effects of solid waste on the quality of underground water in Benin metropolis, Nigeria. The study was bore out of the unregulated manner in which both domestic and industrial wastes are deposited in the streets, river courses, buried, burnt and discarded in refuse heaps.

The 20-year study report on status of groundwater arsenic contamination in West Bengal by Jadavpur University, based on the analysis of water samples from tube wells in all 19 districts of West Bengal. Groundwater in nine highly affected districts had arsenic at concentrations of 300 lg/L and above.

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