Apart from nitrate contamination, the presence of fluoride, iron, arsenic and heavy metals has also touched worrying levels.

The smelter was shut down in May under order of the Tamil Nadu government after 13 people died after coming under police fire during violen...

By combining mathematics with experiments and field data, the team helped predict how the filter performs in large scale, enabling the comm...

Narendra Singh Tomar said the Central Ground Water Board has prepared a conceptual document entitled 'Master Plan for Artificial Recharge t...

A leading scientist at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur have developed a low-cost eco-friendly water filter that can provide s...

Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti today said her ministry accords the "highest priority" to Bihar, which goes to polls later this y...

As of April 1, 2015, the Public Health Engineering Department has set a target to provide clean drinking water in fluoride affected 78 haml...

A co-operative is now supplying arsenic-free drinking water to a hundred families located in Madhusudankanti and selling it to nearby villa...

The committee found that the WHO standard was "relaxed" merely due to abundance of arsenic in ground water and lack of alternative source o...

As per water purification project 'Sulabh Drinking Water' converts pond water into safe drinking water and can be sold at only 50 paise per...

A large number of fish were reported dead due to water pollution of three major rivers — Kolong, Kopili and Kiling — in Morigaon district, ...

“The Indian subcontinent is the only region where arsenic contamination of drinking water coexists with widespread resistance to antimonial...

Villagers in North Karnataka are drinking water with high arsenic content, said a Comptroller and Auditor General report released on Thursd...

The government announced that it would set up an international centre to tackle arsenic contamination in Kolkata, with several parts of eas...

Depletion of groundwater and its pollution may be leading to a silent public health crisis as aquifers in many stretches across India are b...

British scientists claim to have found a solution to the world's worst case of poisoning through exposure to arsenic in rice and water in e...

The presence of arsenic in groundwater has assumed alarming proportion in Bihar with 12 out of 38 districts affected by groundwater contami...