Despite the overwhelming advantages of mechanic villages, their heavy metal pollution of soil due to poor waste management is causing serious ecological and public health concerns.

The potential of Vigna subterranean commonly called Bambara beans for phytoextraction of copper in a crude oil contaminated soil was investigated. The contamination levels of crude oil in the soil for this pot experiment were 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10% (w/v). Amendments were added to increase the uptake and translocation of metal to aerial biomass.

Uranium content in groundwater varies markedly depending upon geological terrain, climate, proximity of uranium deposits, as well as composition of the water. In India, the average reported range of uranium in groundwater is from 0.01 to 19.6 micrograms/litre (ug/L).

Based on established linkages between ferrimagnetism and heavy metal concentration of anthropogenic particulates, we attempt here to delineate pollutant residing domains and study the role of surface runoff and
wind circulations over its redistribution in the Pune Metropolitan Region (PMR) in Maharashtra.

Remediation of arsenic contaminated soil was studied in this work, experiments were carried out out using simulated soil contaminated arsenic treated with an extractant solution comprising of citric acid, oxalic acid, sodium hydroxide and sodium carbonate. Experiments were carried out by treating the soil with the extractant solution.