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Groundwater Pollution
Quit Wardha
@AparnaPallavi1 Issue Date: Oct 31, 2010
Sevagram ashram in Maharashtra where Mahatma Gandhi spent many years of his life is threatened by pollution.
Operation Clean-up
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2010
There is 1.1 million tonnes of highly contaminated soil at the plant site, according to an estimate by the National Environment Engineering and Research Institute (NEERI) in Nagpur.
Flooding out arsenic
Issue Date: Jan 15, 2010
For the last two decades the world has been trying to explain how arsenic leaches into groundwater in the Ganga-Meghna-Brahmaputra floodplain. Solutions, however, are very few. An estimated 100 million people are still at risk from contamination.
Drug unit to shut
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2010
The Bombay High Court has ordered closure of a drug manufacturing factory in Raigad district following a petition that said the factory has severely polluted three surrounding villages.
Bhopal’s toxic links with Indore
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2010
People in Indore and the adjoining Pithampur industrial area in Madhya Pradesh are protesting the incineration of Bhopal’s toxic waste near their homes. The waste disposal facility in Pithampur in Dhar district was completed recently.
Groundwater benefits purifiers
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2010
Not learning from Bhopal
Issue Date: Dec 31, 2009
It is 25 years of the Bhopal gas disasterthe night when chemicals spewed out of the Union Carbide factory to kill and maim thousands over generations. The question is if we have learnt from the disasterlearnt how to handle chemical accidents; to dispose of industrial toxic waste; to manage crucial medical relief, to give monetary compensation speedily and to establish the liability of pollutersso that accidents like this do not happen again.
A work in progress
Issue Date: Dec 15, 2009
WE need to conduct more studies to understand if Himalayan glaciers are melting at a faster rate. And if they do retreat at a faster rate, we
probably need even more studies to find out if global warming is the cause (see Glacial melt? Need more studies). That in essence was what environment minister Jairam Ramesh said
Rage over waste
Issue Date: Nov 30, 2009
a meeting between the residents of Mavallipura village in Karnataka and Bengaluru municipal officials on October 7 ended in a row when the residents refused to let the officials go unless they promised to close down a waste dumpsite in the village.
14 km from Pune, its footprint
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2009
Villagers suffer the city's garbage. Relatives don't visit them, diseases do
Hanumant Bhandari is getting used to his speckled face. The 10-year-old student of a school on the outskirts of Pune was intrigued by the white
spots on his face and thighs when they first appeared a year ago. The spots disappear whenever he takes medicine, but reappear in no time.
