Hydropower from Tibet to the Mekong
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Thursday, May 19, 2011
The National Ganga River Basin Authority
Introduction to the National Ganga River Basin Authority initiative
http://moef.nic.in/modules/recent-initiatives/NGRBA/index.html
The Environmental and Social Management Framework for the NGRBA
Volume 1-Environmental and Social Analysis, TERI
http://moef.nic.in/downloads/public-information/NGRBA%20Volume%20I.pdf
Volume 2-Project Management Group, MoEF
http://moef.nic.in/downloads/public-information/NGRBA%20Volume%20II.pdf
http://moef.nic.in/modules/recent-initiatives/NGRBA/index.html
The Environmental and Social Management Framework for the NGRBA
Volume 1-Environmental and Social Analysis, TERI
http://moef.nic.in/downloads/public-information/NGRBA%20Volume%20I.pdf
Volume 2-Project Management Group, MoEF
http://moef.nic.in/downloads/public-information/NGRBA%20Volume%20II.pdf
Friday, October 22, 2010
Groundwater contamination from chrome sulphate factories outside Kanpur, October 2010
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| This well was disabled because it was delivering contaminated groundwater. |
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| Showing contaminated well water |
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| The yellow color indicates sulphates in the groundwater |
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| Unusable water |
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| A closed chrome sulphate plant. Chrome sulphate is produced for use in tanning hides at nearby leather tanneries. |
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| Chrome sulphate sludge dumpsite |
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| The waste from producing chrome sulphate is dumped around the plant area and villages on land adjacent to roads, villages and shops. It has leached into the groundwater to contaminated all wells in the vicinty. |
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| An operational chrome sulphate plant |
Photos of Effluent Drains in Kanpur
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| Major drain delivering untreated effluent from tanneries and other industries to the river Ganga |
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| Leather waste from the tanning process stored near the river bank |
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| Untreated effluent mixed with some treated effluent and directed to nearby agricultural fields for use in irrigation. This effluent has chromium and heavy salts. |
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| The effluent enters the adjacent fields through small breaches in the irrigation canal |
Groundwater contamination from chrome sulphate factories outside Kanpur
Rakesh Jaiswal of Ecofriends talks with villagers at one of many contaminated well sites.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Industrial effluent from tanneries flowing into the river Ganga (videos 1 and 2) and the "treated" and untreated effluent flowing to agricultural fields (video 3)
More than 50 million gallons of this untreated effluent reaches the river and agricultural fields every day
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