What goes down must come up

marine · Mar 25, 2010

It is a crime. Numerous factories deliberately inject untreated effluents directly into the ground, contaminating underground aquifers. Samples of groundwater were collected from eight places in three states and tested for concentrations of some known pollutants. All samples had high levels of the heavy metal mercury, which caused the Minamata disaster in Japan in the 1950s. One sample had more than 268 times the mercury than is considered safe. Groundwater in the industrial areas of India is unfit even for agriculture.

http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/india/press/reports/chemical-fertilisers-in-our-wa-2.pdf

marine · Mar 25, 2010

[FONT=&quot]Mercury is implicated in a range of health problems, including Minamata disease (characterised by impairment of brain functions), neurological disorders, retardation of growth in children, abortion, disruption of the endocrine system (which controls hormone levels in the blood stream) and weakening of the immune system. “High levels of mercury in drinking water can severely impair the nervous system, causing neuropathy. Moreover, it affects lever and kidney functions,” says S K Wangnoo, senior consultant and endocrinologist at the Apollo hospital, New Delhi.

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