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Groundwater Pollution
Gujarat charges pharma major for pollution
Issue Date: Dec 15, 2006
the Gujarat High Court has issued notices to Alembic Ltd, the Gujarat government and Gujarat State Pollution Control Board (gpcb) over contamination of groundwater in Paneval village in Panchamahal district of Gujarat.
The Vadodara-based Alembic, one of the oldest pharmaceutical companies in India, has a plant in the village manufacturing bulk drugs.
Mills pollute Uttaranchal hills
Issue Date: Nov 15, 2006
Action against polluting units gives Goa villagers some relief
Issue Date: Nov 15, 2006
POLLUTING industrial units in Cuncolim Industrial Estate, located about 10 km from Madgaon town in Goa, are beginning to feel the heat. On September 11, 2006, the Goa State Pollution Control Board (gspcb) issued closure notices to three units.
Right treatment
Issue Date: Aug 15, 2006
In collaboration with ngos, unicef has designed a unique greywater recycling pilot project for water-scarce hostels in Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh.
The project sanctions hand pumps to draw underground water, and put in place rooftop water-harvesting and greywater reuse systems. The idea is to improve school sanitation and reduce the demand for fresh water.
Villagers in Tamil Nadu face groundwater crisis
Issue Date: Jul 31, 2006
Residents of the Madhanatha puram village on the outskirts of Chennai claim that the groundwater in their area is polluted and is depleting fast. And they blame Siva's Soft Drink Private Ltd, a local soft drinks manufacturing company, which produces two brands of soft drinks -- Fruitnik and Rejoice.
Timber risk
Issue Date: Jan 31, 2006
indiscriminate use of copper chromate arsenate (cca), a wood preservative, is fraught with the risk of arsenic leaching and contaminating soil and groundwater, warns a study conducted in the us .
Over the edge
Issue Date: Nov 15, 2005
A bus ride through Cuddalore's industrial belt is a nasal nightmare. Villagers outside this port town, 200 kilometres (km) south of Chennai, know different areas by their characteristic smell -- rotten eggs, decaying cabbage, putrid flesh or pungent detergent.
Groundwater dip: quantum, quality
Issue Date: Sep 30, 2005
the latest groundwater report of Karnataka, brought out by the Department of Mines and Geology (dmg) , shows that entire Bangalore is an overexploited zone. The 2004 study puts 55 taluka s in the overexploited category. The situation is worst in Kolar and Tumkur, apart from Bangalore's rural and urban areas.
Once a victim
Issue Date: Jun 15, 2005
Around 300 Bhopal gas tragedy victims, including women and children, were assaulted by the police on May 17, 2005, while holding a peaceful protest demonstration to demand clean drinking water. Though the Supreme Court (sc) had ruled on May 7, 2004 that gas tragedy victims should be provided clean drinking water, state authorities have done nothing to ensure compliance with the order.
Too violent?
Issue Date: Jan 31, 2005
about 4,000 villagers, including 2,000 women, attacked an oxalic acid plant of Star Oxochem Private Limited (sopl) at Chipri village in Maharashtra's Kolhapur district on January 1, 2005. They destroyed 18 four wheelers, torched four imported cars and smashed several computers and pieces of furniture: a loss of nearly Rs 500 crore.
