NEW DELHI, May 7 – UNICEF has reported arsenic contamination in ground water in 18 districts of Assam and fluoride contamination in five districts.
Based on information from Chief Engineer (PHE) of the State Government, a UNICEF study has found arsenic and fluoride contamination, Minister of State for Water Resources, Vincent H Pala said in a Rajya Sabha reply to a question by Naznin Faruque.

AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat high court has sought explanations from six companies and the state government over complaints of pollution by villagers in Sanand taluka that companies discharge chemical effluents in gaucher land.

Acting on a PIL filed by an NGO on behalf of Chacharwadi-Vasna village, a division bench headed by chief justice directed the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (JPCB) to inquire

Bishnu Dash / Kolkata/ Bhubaneswar May 06, 2010, 0:16 IST

S Lalitha, May 5, Bangalore, DHNS:

Bangaloreans making use of freshly pumped borewell water for drinking purposes need to put an abrupt end to the practice.

The State Government has been requested to initiate legal measures to force Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages to pay compensation to the people of the Plachimada village in Palakkad district affected by the alleged environmental damage its bottling plant had inflicted on the area.

NEW DELHI: An expert committee has decided to refer the housing complex project for industrial workers in Narela here for environment clearance to a higher authority with a pollution panel finding the level of arsenic within permissible limits in the ground water at the proposed site in Outer Delhi.

PRAMOD KUMAR
Arsenic contamination in groundwater has been reported from some parts of 28 districts of Uttar Pradesh, 15 districts of Bihar and certain districts of West Bengal in the country.

Workshop blames it on mismanagement of surface and groundwater resources