Dams/ Irrigation

Utility of city wastewater as a source of irrigation water for mustard

A pot experiment was conducted during rabi season of 2003-2004, to study the effect of two concentrations of city waste water over ground water on the performance of Brassica juncea cv. Varuna. 2007

Publication Date: 
01/01/2007
Dilshada Tabassum, Saba Azad, Akhtar Inam
Journal of Industrial Pollution Control
23
2
391
Tags:
Agriculture, Water Quality, Heavy Metals, Wastewater Recycling, Irrigation, India, Aligarh (T)

Case Studies in Food Safety and Environmental Health

This book presents food safety concepts and issues in a practical and applied framework for use in the classroom. It is divided into three main sections:
1. microbial food safety
2. chemical residues and contaminants
3. risk assessment and food legislation

Publication Date: 
Jan 2007
Ho, Peter; Cortez Vieira, Maria Margarida
Tags:
Food Safety, Legislation, Pesticide Residues, Milk, Heavy Metals, Health
Environment

Restoring Daurala: mitigating industrial pollution

This report highlights the environmental degradation at Daurala town in Meerut district, Uttar Pradesh, as a result of heavy metals contamination within agricultural soils. The report focused n the resulting serious adverse impacts on the health and well being of the local residents due to the leaching of these heavy metals into their drinking water resources. Inappropriate discharge of contaminated industrial wastes from local prominent industry DCM Shriram Industries Limited was highlighted as a primary source of metals contaminants.

Publication Date: 
Dec 2006
Heather Lewis
Janhit Foundation
Tags:
Environment, Heavy Metals, Drinking Water, Health Effects, Industrial Pollution, Solid Waste, Waste Treatment, Uttar Pradesh, Meerut (D), Groundwater
Pesticides And Toxins

Chromium : As a pollutant

Contamination of chromium is considered a serious environmental pollutant due to wide industrilization. The two largest sources of chromium emission in the atmosphere are from the chemical manufacturing industry and combustion of natural gas, oil and coal. 2007

Publication Date: 
31/12/2006
Risikesh Thakur, G.D. Sharma, B.S. Dwivedi & et al
Journal of Industrial Pollution Control
23
2
209
Tags:
Heavy Metals, Health Effects, Industrial Pollution, Bio-Remediation
Climate Change

 High cadmium leads to decline in oysters

cadmium, a heavy metal, reduces oysters' tolerance of warmer water temperatures and makes them more vulnerable during summer when temperatures rise, according to a study conducted jointly by the

Publication Date: 
14/12/2006
Down to Earth
Tags:
Marine Ecosystems, Marine Research, Heavy Metals, Climate Change, Global Warming
Water Resources

 Udipi farmers' land taken over for thermal power plant

in october 2006, 150 farmers of Yellur village in Udupi district of Karnataka lost 195 hectares (ha) of land. According to Janajagrithi Samiti, a local ngo, the Udupi tehsildar K Muralidhar

Publication Date: 
14/12/2006
Nidhi Jamwal
Down to Earth
Tags:
Environment, Air Pollution, Land Ownership, Western Ghats, Water Resources, Heavy Metals, Displacement, Farmers, Thermal Power Plants, High Court, India, Karnataka, Fly Ash
India

 Toys may not be all that harmless

the next time you go shopping for toys for your tiny tots, take care to be judicious. A recent study carried out by the ngo Toxics Link in the Indian metros of Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai, has

Publication Date: 
30/10/2006
Vibha Varshney
Down to Earth
Tags:
Lead, Heavy Metals, Health Effects, Child Health, Research, NGO, India, Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai (D)
Water Pollution

Distribution of trace metals in the surface sediments of Chitrapuzha, tropical tidal river on south west coast of India

The temporal and spatial distribution of trace metals in the surface sediments of Chitrapuzha river were studied.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2006
P. V. Joseph, Jacob Chacko
Indian Journal of Environmental Protection
26
10
892
Tags:
Water Pollution, River Pollution, Rivers, Heavy Metals, Industrial Pollution, Sedimentation, Kerala, Indian Journal of Environmental Protection, P. V. Joseph, Jacob Chacko
Water Pollution

Trace metal concentration in groundwater of Tarikere Taluk

Groundwater monitoring was carried out in Tarikere taluk during December 2004. The samples were analyzed for trace metals, such as iron, cadmium, lead, copper, zinc, nickel and barium.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2006
K. Harish Babu, E. T. Puttaiah, Vijaya Kumar
Indian Journal of Environmental Protection
26
10
911
Tags:
Water Pollution, Water Quality, Heavy Metals, Groundwater Quality, Karnataka, Chikmagalur (D), Indian Journal of Environmental Protection, K. Harish Babu, E. T. Puttaiah, Vijaya Kumar
Water Pollution

Monitoring of trace metals in Gagan river water at Moradabad

Ten different trace metals in Gagan river water at thirteen different sites in and around Moradabad were estimated by ICP-AES technique and the data was compared with water quality standards prescribed by WHO. River was found to be excessively contaminated for copper, iron, lead concentrations and moderately contaminated for nickel and cadmium.

Publication Date: 
01/06/2006
D. K. Sinha, Navneet Kumar
Indian Journal of Environmental Protection
26
6
516
Tags:
Water Pollution, River Pollution, Rivers, Water Quality, Heavy Metals, Uttar Pradesh, Moradabad (D), Statistics

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