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KOLKATA, 17 AUG: A casual approach to a serious civic issue, the rampant misuse of groundwater, might lead to massive subsidence in the city in the near future, engineers and geologists spoken to by The Statesman have said.

Though the cave-in on Council House Street today was due to the collapse of the underground brick sewer, engineers of Kolkata Municipal Corporation and the State Water Inves

Publication Date: 
18/08/2010
Statesman (Kolkata) [2]
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Municipal Corporations [3], West Bengal [4], Calcutta (D) [5], Groundwater [6], Drinking Water [7], Groundwater Regulation [8], Geology [9]
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