It isn't often that a post-graduate college decides to test the quality of water in its surrounding areas. In a five-month project begining January 2004, final year B pharma students of Gupta College of Technological Sciences in Asansol, West Bengal did exactly that. The students had to undertake a project in order to fulfill the requirements of their undergraduate course. The high incidence of water borne diseases such as jaundice, amoebiasis and colitis in the Asansol sub-divsion of West Bengal's Burdwan district impelled them to analyse the region's surface and groundwater.
A team of four
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/we-found-lots-muck
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/anamika-sengupta
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/down-earth
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/water-technology
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/heavy-metals
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/arsenic
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/drinking-water
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/west-bengal
