This article analyses the implementation of the Ganga Action Plan and the various reasons for its failure in the highly polluted villages of Jajmau, clustered near Kanpur city.

This case study reports on how the various stakeholders came together to alleviate the problem of effluents discharged by factories in the industrial estates on the eastern periphery of Ahmedabad into the Kharicut canal that flows into the Khari, a tributary of the Sabarmati.

Kodaikkanal, India, suffered mercury contamination due to emissions and waste from a thermometer factory. Kodai Lake is situated to the north of the factory. The present study determined mercury in waters, sediment and fish samples and compared the values with those from two other lakes, Berijam and Kukkal. Total mercury (HgT) of 356e465 ng l

Unwise dumping of wastes in land lead to soil followed by water pollution. Wazirpur, an authorized industrial area, in Delhi, is one of the major sources of pollution in this city.

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Due to the surface mining at Makrana, the flora, hydrological relations and soil biological systems are drastically disturbed. In Makrana the main cause of environmental pollution is marble mining dust particulates and stone crusher dust. Analysis of the samples showed that the soil of Makrana is saline sodic because of high pH value and excess sodium presence. The agricultural field near these marble mines and stone crushers areas show poor growth and yield of crops and vegetable crops was noticed.

Concentrations of trace metals in the flesh of nine fish species commonly found in commercial
catches of a hydro-power reservoir in Sri Lanka (Victoria) were detected using the
Neutron Activation Technique. High concentrations of Al (37.8 - 208.0 μg•g-1 dry wt.) and Rb
(20.90 - 70.75 μg•g-1 dry wt.) were found in all nine species while the concentration of Zn
ranged from 20.29 to 92.00 μg•g-1 dry wt. but was found only in four species. Au was detected
in seven species but the concentration ranged from 0.004 to 0.043 μg•g-1 dry wt. The concentration