Ironically, groundwater has now become the culturally preferred water source, and when given a choice between arsenic-free tubewell water and filtered water, most Bangladeshis would gladly choose ...

A team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati has created a new optical sensor that offers real-time ...

Water is a fundamental part of our daily lives: we drink it, cook with it, and use it to farm. But in many rural areas in northern India, groundwater is naturally contaminated by arsenic and is ...

The Central Ground Water Board report attributes the rising uranium levels to leaching from agricultural land. Intensive use ...

Tens of millions of people are still drinking arsenic-contaminated water 30 years after ‘the greatest mass poisoning in history’ ...

Arsenic is a naturally occurring element found in both soil and groundwater. Rice plants have a unique ability to absorb arsenic from the soil, especially when grown in flooded fields—a common ...

President Donald Trump comes into office vowing to ease environmental regulations on the utility industry. Now companies that ...

The groundwater in several districts of Punjab and Haryana contains uranium, nitrates, arsenic, chloride and fluoride in ...

In a concerning development, groundwater contamination is on the rise in Jammu and Kashmir, with several districts reporting ...

Punjab’s groundwater extraction rate is a whopping 142 per cent higher than the recharge rate. Contemporary research on groundwater resources has unveiled a shocking truth. A staggering 60 billion ...