Published by Anirudh Singh, Mr. in Social
Why is the Upper Aquifer in Ghazipur District and some parts of Indo Gangetic Plain of India contaminated with Arsenic?
It causes health hazards.
Category: Social
Dryden Aqua conducted 3 years of research with the DST and European Commission under an FP7 program to try and solve the issue of Arsenic in Ground water. The research was conducted in West Bengal, project website www.Eco-India.eu. Out of the project new technology was developed, www.CleanAquaForEver.com and the Cafe filter which is a low cost sustainable solution. Over 1 million people are now on the filter media AFM in India for their drinking water and Cafe Technology is now being taken forward by a new social enterprise company CleanWater Water Ltd.
Published by Howard Dryden, Dryden Aqua Ltd - CEO
Details of large zero carbon, no filters, no chemicals buoyant desalination, and lens purification and boiling design from rosjonesenvedu@hotmail.com
Published by Rosemary Jones
Arsenic is found in water due to the salts being present in the rock bed of the area.Rocks were formed long back just now because of various activities the bed are exposed an continously being erroded for various reasons resulting in Arsenic being dissolved in water.
Published by Suhasini Bhatnagar, Employee at swaroop enterprises and biotech private limited.
Generally and major cause of ground water arsenic contamination is due to oxidation of arseno-pyrite at any water depth . Some times , leaheting of pesticides , fertilizers and other industrial wastes causes ground water arsenic contamination which is higher at the starting water depth and contamination decreases with the increase of water depth . Please refer to my research paper on this issue by browsing " https://www.researchgate.net/project/Special-Issue-on-Arsenic' in which arsenic contamination at shallow depth is due to leacheting of industrial wastes etc
Published by Islam ul Haque, Ecological sustainability through environmental protection services ( Eco-STEPS) - Chairman