Bengaluru: Sandalwood actor Rashmika Mandanna underwater photo shoot caught up a storm after her picture went viral. Kannada actor Mandanna did a photo shoot to create awareness about water pollution and this particular shoot was an attempt specifically for Bellandur Lake. In the pictures, she could be seen floating underwater[Read More…]
Tag: Water pollution
Plastic amounts severe threat to endangered specie sea turtle
A sea turtle has a 22 per cent chance of dying if it eats just one piece of plastic, an Australian scientific institution revealed on Friday, quantifying for the first time the risk that plastic pollution poses to sea turtle populations. Scientists found that there was a 50 per cent[Read More…]
Green Court raises concern over usage, safety of Ganga water
A dip in the divine Ganges wipes out the sins of people making a route to heaven. People have believed this for ages. It is not just a river, but an embodiment of sacredness and sanctity. A Hindu ritual is considered even more pious with the addition of water from[Read More…]
Chennai to face acute water crisis
The local authorities say that the city of Chennai is facing an acute crisis of drinking water as the four major lakes of the city have dried up. Tamil Nadu is witnessing the worst drought in 140 years. The city requires 830 million litres of water a day, but the[Read More…]
Severe cancer outburst in Bihar due to arsenic contaminated water
There is an outburst of cancer in Bihar which is mostly due to high levels of arsenic in the ground water. As per Scroll reports, the field studies in the state suggest that in the past 15 years arsenic concentrations in water have gone as high as up to 3,880[Read More…]
Ground water in Northeast records severe iron contamination
According to the Central Groundwater Board, the concentration of iron contamination was found to be the largest in Northeast. Iron contamination in the Northeast has even crossed the permissible limit of 0.3 milligramme/litre. Water samples were collected through its permanent network of 678 groundwater monitoring stations in the Northeast, which[Read More…]
NGT directs immediate closure of industries near Bengaluru lake
The National Green Tribunal on Wednesday directed an immediate and complete closure of all industries around Bengaluru’s Bellandur Lake where a mound of garbage was set on fire in February 2017. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar also banned dumping of any kind of municipal solid waste[Read More…]