Contamination, Pollution and Quality

The solid wastes of Delhi, the largest municipal solid waste generator in the country with a production of about 7000 metric tonnes a day is dumped at three landfill sites, namely Bhalaswa, Ghazipur and Okhla.

Plastic trash fish to highlight coastal pollution at Hyderabad CBD COP

Protests rock Cauvery basin as Karnataka releases water to Tamil Nadu in keeping with Supreme Court directive

Chennai formerly known as Madras, the capital of Tamil Nadu is the sixth most populous city in India with 4.68 million residents as of 2011. Until 1870, it had no piped water supply within the city and people were dependent on public and private wells. The construction of a piped water supply system was started in 1872. This laid the foundation for the present water supply system.

Many of us live in areas where water quality is not as good as we would like, in some cases long-term exposure to contaminants in public water systems or private may be hazardous to your health. Fortunately, there are many water systems different filter on the market, ranging from relatively inexpensive to more expensive whole-house systems.

The basic facilities that the government promises is food, shelter and clothing; but so many a times in the midst of fulfilling the food and shelter criteria, they forget about the clothing aspect which actually is one of the most important of them all.  But one such NGO realized it’s importance and took it in their hands to ensure that this aspect was taken care of.

History has witnessed World War I and II; will there be a World War III? Indeed, if there will be, it will be 'The World War III - for Water'. Can there be a second thought to this after the call for a Karnataka bandh on Saturday, 6 October 2012, in the name of water? 

WWF-India, one of India’s leading conservation organizations with programmes and projects spread across the country, in partnership with the Uttar Pradesh Forest Department and under the aegis of the HSBC - supported “

Organiser: Department of Geology, Anna University

Venue:  Anna University
                 Chennai

Description
As an activity under the Research Project Saph Pani , co-funded by the European Commission within the 7th framework programme Two-day course on Managed Aquifer Recharge: Methods, Hydrogeological Requirements, Post and Pre-treatment systems will be conducted at Anna University, Chennai.

The Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) under the Ministry of Water Resources has released a publication entitled “Aquifer systems of India” apart from aquifer atlas for six states viz. Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh and Meghalaya.