Last year Down To Earth got a few groundwater samples from Panipat tested by the Facility for Analytical and Ecological Testing ( feat ), at the Indian Institute of Technology ( iit ), Kanpur. The results showed that at some places mercury levels were as much as 268 times the prescribed limit (see
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