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World Toilet Day: A review of India’s toilets and Swachh Bharat

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On World Toilet Day, United Nations figures on open defecation and toilets across the world should ring alarm bells. Four billion people still lack access to basic sanitation facilities. Each day, nearly a thousand children are dying due to preventable water and sanitation-related diarrhoeal diseases. What’s the situation in India? “Four years since Swachh Bharat’s …

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Pollution is contaminating India’s groundwater quality

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Pollution is not only corroding our air but has made most of India’s groundwater undrinkable. An investigation by the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) has found high levels of groundwater contamination across the country. Groundwater exists underground in the pores of the soil and cracks in the rock. Its significance is often overlooked. However, groundwater …

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You kill for cow, but don’t care for Mother Ganga?

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Hindu tradition has it that if you bathe in the waters of the River Ganga, your sins get washed away. Every year, seventy million visit the river to do just that. But now the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has compared a dip in the holy river to being as ‘injurious to health’ as a packet …

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Uranium contaminates India’s drinking water

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India has long faced issues with contaminated drinking water. Poor sanitation means diseases such as cholera continue to blight India. Meanwhile, industrial run-off further contaminates drinking water supplies. However, could India also be facing contamination issues of a far more radioactive nature? Groundwater in India is contaminated with high levels of uranium, found scientists of …

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Is India facing a major water crisis?

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India will face severe shortages of water by 2050, a UNESCO report warns. Rivers and groundwater resources are becoming increasingly heavily polluted across the country. The Central Pollution Control Board identifies 275 Indian rivers as polluted – more than double the figure five years ago. The high levels of contamination across the country mean 19 …

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