India is emerging as a key player in exercising influence over the global climate change initiatives, and no significant global reduction of green house emissions can be attained without active Indian participation.

With iron oxide nanoparticles The millions of arsenic victims living in Bangladesh and India have another option for obtaining clean drinking water. Finely divided iron oxide nanoparticles (ionps) can remove arsenic from contaminated water. Iron-containing compounds have been used in purifying groundwater. By the property of adsorption, arsenic can bind to the solid surface of iron.

Jalandhar: Detection of high level of uranium in water in the Malwa belt of Punjab, especially in Bathinda, Faridkot, Mansa, Sangrur, Muktsar and Moga districts, have virtually halted the installation of reverse osmosis (RO) plants, set up by the state government, for safe water to villagers.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The going has been good so far for the Thiruvananthapuram scheme of the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC)-assisted Kerala State Water Supply Project (now known as the Japan International Cooperation Agency [JICA]-assisted project). The Rs 300-crore Thiruvananthapuram scheme of the Rs 2,590-crore project has made enough progress, officials say.

Excessive use of underground water of the capital through deep tube wells, and filling up of low-lying land, canals and water bodies are causing the underground water level to drop alarmingly.

Experts say that this could put the city dwellers in severe water crisis in future and also cause land to subside.

The ministry of special initiatives is using expensive and difficult-to-maintain technology in setting up of water filtration plants in the country despite concerns shown by the officials from the ministry of science and technology, sources told Dawn.