Drinking Water

Gujarat government arrests activists protesting Narmada weir

News this week: Gujarat government puts environment activists under house arrest, Goa's mining zone highly polluted and Assam's rice bowl turns into wasteland due to siltation.

Author : Ravleen Kaur

Gujarat government culls protest against weir on the Narmada river

put under house arrest on October 31
Garudeshwar weir

High air pollution in Goa's mining zone: study

found high air pollution

Thanks to floods, rice bowl of Assam turns into wasteland

rendering it uncultivable

Arsenic contamination may cause resistance to drugs for killer parasitic disease: study

can create resistance to drugs used to treat Leishmaniasis

Hydro project affected people in Manipur demand return of submerged land

demanded the return of land
This is a weekly roundup of important news from October  28-November 3. Also read last week's policy matters updates.
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