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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EcoFriends December 21, 2002 KANPUR: This may sound a paradox. Most of the hospitals in Kanpur which are supposed to ensure better health to people have instead turned into breeding grounds for infectious diseases. Highly hazardous and infectious biomedical waste comprising contaminated needles, human anatomical waste, waste from culture and…
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EcoFriends 2002 Background: A serious environmental disaster is brewing in the villages of Jajmau at Kanpur on account of the supply of hazardous irrigation water to the farmlands at Jajmau. Despite being under Kanpur city, the twenty odd villages, which receive the irrigation water have no electricity connections, telephone connections…
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