pollution liability: Several oil majors in the US have agreed to pay up US $423 million in what is billed as the largest settlement over drinking-water contamination involving 153 public water

IN POVERTY THREATENED BY MALNUTRITION AND DISEASE, IN WEAKNESS BY WAR, IN RICHNESS BY THE POLLUTION BROUGHT ABOUT BY (OUR) OWN PROSPERITY." Kartikeya V. Sarabhai

While the government talks about saving prime agricultural land from industry, a pitched battle between Alphonso growers and a power project developer is raging in Maharashtra's Ratnagiri district. The environment ministry has cleared a 1,200MW thermal power plant by JSW Energy Limited in the heart of the famous mango-exporting belt despite admitting that the studies to understand the impact of pollution from the thermal plant do not exist yet.

Ten of the largest rivers in the world are dying. Amongst these are the Ganga, Indus, Nile, Yangtze, Mekong and Danube that are the lifeline of millions of people. These rivers are not merely water sources but repositories of history, myths and cultural memories. And, the greatest threat to these and many other rivers is industrial pollution apart from natural sewage channels.

groundwater in Ankleshwar Industrial Estate in Bharuch district in Gujarat is highly contaminated. The contamination is a result of more than 3,000 industrial units in the estate: around 270 million

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