-IANS Kolkata: Climate change is causing toxic Metals trapped in the sediment beds of the Hooghly estuary in the Indian Sunderbans to leach out into the water system due to changes in ocean chemistry, say scientists, warning of potential human health hazards. They predict that after about 30 years, increasing ocean acidification - another dark side of spiked atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide - could in fact unlock the entire stock of...
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Digging wells, the solid scientific way -K Lakshmi
-The Hindu Chennai: Wondering which spot to dig for groundwater or what is the quality of water in the land you own? Are you still thinking of folks walking around with those peculiar ‘Y'-shaped twigs? It's not quite that way any more. We've become more scientific, we're using special tools to figure out where the water lies. The ‘we' in this case refers to the State Ground and Surface Water Resources Data...
More »Farm to fork, our food is becoming a toxic cocktail
-The Hindustan Times That India's food chain is heavily contaminated is well known. Even then the latest study by the Centre for Science and Environment, a public interest research and advocacy organisation based in New Delhi, on the growing antibiotic resistance in humans, thanks to indiscriminate use of antibiotics in poultry industry is frightening. The report, which was released on Wednesday, claims that Indians are developing resistance to antibiotics and so...
More »City may ban all farming along Yamuna -Sanjay Kaw
-The Asian Age New Delhi: With traces of toxic Metals found in fruits and vegetables grown along the banks of the Yamuna river, the city administration is likely to ban farming with contaminated water from the river. The national capital receives 95 per cent of its vegetables and fruits from other states. Of the remaining five per cent, half of these are grown using the Yamuna's polluted water. As the move...
More »34% of state's potable water contaminated -Viju B
-The Times of India THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The latest Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report has come down heavily on Kerala Water Authority (KWA) for not providing safe drinking water to people of Kerala, especially when sufficient funds were allotted under various drinking water and sanitation schemes. "Test results by the KWA had shown that 34% of total water sources tested in Kerala was contaminated with heavy presence of iron, fluoride, saline, nitrates, deadly...
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