People of Erode district depend on groundwater as local bodies not able to meet demand
Government should look into the issue and initiate action
PHOTO: M. GOVARTHAN
Health hazard:The groundwater at Cauvery Nagar in Erode is polluted heavily following unmindful discharge of effluents into the vacant lands by the textile processing units.
In a pine-scented Himalayan valley, Sushila Devi is a reluctant soldier in India's new war over water. Her village, Pipola, sits just southeast of the Tehri Dam, which bestrides one of the precursors of the Ganges River and is India's largest hydropower project. Since the dam was completed in 2006, the natural spring that once fed Pipola has dried up.
The water quality index (WQI) was calculated for the assessment of ground water quality near to the dye user industry. For the calculation of WQI physicochemical characteristics of groundwater near by dyeing-printing, pulp-paper and tanning industrial areas were studied.
VELLORE: Collector C. Rajendran has directed officials of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) to immediately visit the places in the Ambur area where there were complaints of tanneries discharging untreated effluents into the Palar, and identify and close such tanneries.
He was presiding over a monthly agriculturists' grievance day meeting at the Collectorate here on Friday.
Ferozepur: Along with waters, the Satluj is bringing in bad news from Pakistan for those living near its banks in the district. Tanneries situated in and around the border towns of Kasur, Barki and Sehjra are polluting the water making it not only unfit for drinking and irrigational purposes, but also leading to immense loss of aquatic life.
Kanpur: The Uttar Pradesh government has decided that no new leather tannery be allowed to come up in Jajmau suburb and warned the existing 418 tanneries against disposing of effluents into the river Ganges, secretary of a leading industries' association in the town said here on Monday.
VELLORE: Vellore Collector C. Rajendran has asked tanneries in Vellore district to strictly follow the safety protocol stipulated by the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) while engaging its workers to clean effluent tanks on their premises.
