Clean water

Oct

2019

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Clean India, Healthy India

Environmentchild mortality, Clean India, Clean water, death, diarrhea, environment, faeces, fecal coliform, Groundwater, mortality, OFD, open defecation, pathogen, Potable Water, sanitation, Sustainable Development Goals, Swachh Bharat, UNGA, water, water-bourne diseases

Hindustan Times ET Health World (Economic Times) India Today The Week UNI India Millenium Post Business Standard Republic World Does economic growth have a positive correlation with clean drinking water in India? Researchers at IIT Kharagpur seem to be not only agreeing with this idea but even found concrete proofs. In a recent study published in the Scientific Reports, the link between the influence of economic growth in reducing fecal pathogens in groundwater has been established. These are the pathogens that…

Apr

2019

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By Shreyoshi Ghosh

Stronger Economy, Cleaner Waters

In-DepthClean water, Economic growth, Faecal coliform, Fecal pollution, Groundwater, NASA, Night light, water, Water pollution

Business Standard The New Indian Express NDTV A study by IIT Kharagpur researchers has connected the dots between the impact of economic growth reducing fecal coliform (FC) pathogens in groundwater which is a key factor causing water-borne diseases in the densely populated Indo-Ganges-Brahmaputra river basin. About 100,000 children in India are dying every year from waterborne enteric diseases like diarrhea. While the study reported the excess of fecal coliform concentration in potable groundwater in rural regions in the said area, it also made first-time observations on a significant reduction of fecal pathogen concentration in the spatially variable groundwater…