NEW DELHI: Noting groundwater contamination in an around the Sterlite Copper plant at Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu, the government on Monday told the Rajya Sabha that the analysis of samples from the un

When Erin Brockovich sued a major utility company in the 1990s for contaminating drinking water with hexavalent chromium, a toxic and carcinogenic metal, national attention turned to California.

Kota: Constant flow of polluted water and waste through 28 nullahs into the Chambal river, one of the least non-polluted rivers in the country so far, has pushed environmentalists and activists of

German Development Bank will provide financial assistance of Rs 960 crore for clean drinking water and cleaning of the Ganga a memorandum of which is likely to be signed in December this year.

The government has formed a committee comprising officials of the environment ministry, experts from NEERI, IITs and various other forums to look into the issue of industrial pollution around the i

AHMEDABAD: Uranium — the heavy metal one usually associates with nuclear reactors — is contaminating Gujarat’s groundwater, finds an elaborate scientific study that covered 16 states.