THE SUNDARBANS TERRAIN IS TURNING HOSTILE TO THE BENGAL TIGER AS SALINITY TAKES A TOLL ON THE FLORA & FAUNA
Prithvijit Mitra & Achintyarup Ray | TNN

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KENDRAPARA: Women carrying pitchers and trudging miles to fetch water is a common sight in the interior areas of Kendrapara these days. Water crisis has gripped the villages as summer slowly peaks.

Due to over exploitation of groundwater over past few years, the water table has gone down drastically in many areas.

Wells have dried up and tube wells are lying defunct.

In this latest report CGWB summarizes various aspects of ground water quality in shallow aquifers in the country with special reference to six parameters viz. salinity, chloride, arsenic, fluoride, iron and nitrate.

Washington: Global warming is making some parts of the oceans saltier, a new study claims.

Rajahmundry, March 22: Coastal villages in West Godavari are being plagued by high saline content in their drinking water due to seepage of sea water into the ground water. Sources say that the main reason behind this is excessive quarrying of sand on the Godavari river bed.

Iron, Fluoride, Salinity, Arsenic Beyond Tolerance Levels In Many Districts: Govt
New Delhi: Groundwater in more than a third of Indian districts is not fit for drinking. The government, in reply to a parliamentary question, admitted that iron levels in ground water are higher than those prescribed in 254 districts while fluoride levels have breached the safe level in 224 districts.

The Chilika Development Authority has tied up with Leibniz University of Germany to study sea grass and the expanding sea meadows of the lake.

Karnal: The role of poor quality soils and water resources in enhancing the food production was highlighted in a three-day seminar,

Shajarana village, located some 15 km from Fazilka, is slowly discovering the benefits of aquaculture.

Badly affected by soil salinity and waterlogging, agriculture here means a single crop in a year and that too only in soil having low salt deposits.

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