Chemical waste poses "marital hazards" for village boys from chosar in Gujarat.Byline: ANI Chosar (Gujarat), Nov 2 (ANI): About 200 ready-to-get-married bachelors are sulking, as they can't find their brides. No one is ready to marry their daughters with these eligible men living at Chosar village in Gujarat, which has literally turned into a chemical dump yard coming from industrial units. Untreated effluent and industrial waste is illegally discharged in the Kharikat canal flowing through the village by chemical factories in Vatva GIDC GIDC Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (India) GIDC Garment Industry Development Corporation GIDC Grenada Industrial Development Corporation , just 30 kilometres away. People from other villages do not want to marry their daughters to these bachelors, as they don't want them to live in this living hell. " People from other villages refuse to marry their daughters to our boys in the village by saying there is no water and no other facility. If a flood comes all the ways are blocked. The government doesn't listen to us," said Thakur Puran Singh, a resident. The air in the village smells foul and the toxic waste toxic waste is waste material, often in chemical form, that can cause death or injury to living creatures. It usually is the product of industry or commerce, but comes also from residential use, agriculture, the military, medical facilities, radioactive sources, and from the open drains Open drain is one of the many different electrical input/output standards in digital designs today. Definition The word "drain" in the term "Open-drain" refers to the drain terminal of a MOSFET transistor. (The analogous term for BJT devices is open collector. seeps through the ground and mixes with drinking water drinking water supply of water available to animals for drinking supplied via nipples, in troughs, dams, ponds and larger natural water sources; an insufficient supply leads to dehydration; it can be the source of infection, e.g. leptospirosis, salmonellosis, or of poisoning, e.g. . The villagers say they are not able to drink the water drawn from a nearby well. They say the water looks yellowish and reddish and they buy packaged mineral water if they have some important guests coming into their houses. Discharge of untreated chemicals in the canal is spoiling the groundwater quality in other villages too but Chosar has been hit ard. Pollutants pollutants see environmental pollution. in groundwater are also affecting villagers' cattle and farm produce. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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