A river monitoring station has been set up near the Periyar river in Ernakulam district of Kerala. The equipment will check the river and water quality and display the results at the board installed by the State Pollution Control Board. Environment activists, however, have raised apprehensions about the usefulness of the system. According to them, the quality-measuring equipment and censors for detecting water quality are placed in areas of the river far away from the discharge points of industrial units and polluted areas.
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