Indian Express October 1, 2011 The Allahabad High Court on Friday directed that chromium-based tanneries in Kanpur be closed as they contributed to pollution in the river Ganga in an unprecedented manner. The court was informed the current chromium level in the Ganga water was well over 100 times the…
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Sharma, S. “Wouldn’t you like a nice anaerobic sludge blanket?” Clean Ganga Campaign, 2002 By Suparna Sharma April, 2002 Kanpur is a North Indian city along the Ganga that got hooked on a strange technology for cleaning the holy river. Well into the 1980s some 300 leather tanneries in Kanpur…
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“Rs. 67 crore later.” Down to Earth: Science and Environment Online. 15 March 2005. …In Kanpur’s Jajmau area, chromium enters food chain. How spent is the Ganga Action Plan? On January 15, 2005, 23 leather tanneries in Kanpur’s Jajmau area were ‘temporarily’ closed. They had failed to install chromium recovery…
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“Kanpur Pilot Remediation of Hexavalent Chromium – Contaminated Groundwater.” Blacksmith Institute. Click here to read this report. Genre: Kanpur Articles, Wastewater Issues Articles, What Has Been Done & Current Activism ArticlesSubjects: Kanpur, Wastewater Issues, What Has Been Done & Current Activism
“Ganga pollution: five more tanneries to be closed down in Kanpur.” The Hindu. 27 January 2011. Ganga pollution: five more tanneries to be closed down in Kanpur PTI Kanpur, January 27, 2011 The Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board has ordered closure of five more tanneries in Kanpur which were discharging…
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Sharma, S. “Kanpur: chromium disaster.” Clean Ganga Campaign, 2003. Kanpur: chromium disaster By Suparna Sharma June, 2003 Lethal chromium wastes are lying along the banks of the Ganga in Kanpur. In any sane country, this would be considered an environmental catastrophe. How does the legal system in a country like…
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EcoFriends July-August, 2003 Illegal sand mining tacitly condoned by influential citizens is causing the Ganga to move further away from its shorelines along a 5 km stretch, in the north Indian city of Kanpur It is not a pretty sight. Miners have erected blockades at the river near the ancient…
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EcoFriends 2002 Background: Myths and Realities of Ganga Action Plan As is known under Ganga Action Plan Phase I, facilities have been created to intercept, divert and treat 160 mld (million litres per day) of sewage and 9 mld of tannery effluents in Kanpur. Three treatment plants have been set…
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EcoFriends October, 2002 Carcinogens in drinking water threaten the health of rural masses in downstream Kanpur According to a press release issued by Eco Friends (EF), a Kanpur-based NGO, groundwater users in the downstream areas of Kanpur, are under serious threat due to poor quality water. The NGO commissioned the…
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