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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Arsenic: Lurking in the shadows across Ganga, Brahmaputra basins -Simran Sumbre & Trinayani Sen

Arsenic: Lurking in the shadows across Ganga, Brahmaputra basins -Simran Sumbre & Trinayani Sen

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published Published on Feb 10, 2020   modified Modified on Feb 10, 2020
-Down to Earth

As the geography of arsenic contamination spreads, there is an urgent need for governments to reorient mitigation measures. That’s because the focus till now has only been on drinking water, but new research says arsenic has contaminated our food chain

Arseic contamination in groundwater is one of the most crippling issues in the drinking water scenario of India. According to the latest report of the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB), 21 states across the country have pockets with arsenic levels higher than the Bureau of Indian Standards’ (BIS) stipulated permissible limit of 0.01 miligram per litre (mg/l).

The states along the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) river basin — Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Assam — are the worst affected by this human-amplified geogenic occurrence.

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Down to Earth, 10 February, 2020, https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/food/arsenic-lurking-in-the-shadows-across-ganga-brahmaputra-basins-69004


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