Water Contamination and Water Adulteration

The very basic need for human existence is water. Water is an indispensable natural resource and is a bare essential to perform our daily tasks.

According to report by the United Nations, 90% of wastewater discharged in developing countries is left untreated everyday. Over 3 million people around the world die each year by drinking water which is considered unfit for human consumption.

Water pollution is any contamination of water with chemicals or other foreign substances that are detrimental to human, plant, or animal health. 

These pollutants include fertilizers and pesticides from agricultural runoff; sewage and food processing waste; lead, mercury, and other heavy metals; chemical wastes from industrial discharges; and chemical contamination from hazardous waste sites. 

Worldwide, nearly 2 billion people drink contaminated water that could be harmful to their health.

Water purification is one of the solutions for water pollution. Millions of people worldwide could be saved if people used chlorination, filtration, and solar disinfection to treat water at their homes.

37.7 million Indians are affected by waterborne diseases each year. Water contamination in India is mainly contributed by untreated sewerage which contaminates surface as well as ground water.

Indian rivers like Yamuna, Ganga, Gomti, Ghaggar, Chambal flow through highly populated cities and get polluted due to the industries they cross. It found that tap water may contain toxics like mercury.

With the increase in the literacy rate, more Indians are becoming aware of consuming safe drinking water. Now, lot of care is taken by the Indians for the drinking water. Most of Indian now prefers bottled water over using tap water as they are aware that the tap water may be contaminated by chemicals, microbes, pathogens, sanitation issues etc.

But, it is found that bottled water or mineral water also adulterated it can be spurious.

Many times Authorities pick up samples of mineral water and find them contaminated with microbes and toxics. 

People now become aware that bottled water can be adulterated too. By consuming bottled water from non reliable outlet is like that we are paying for the adulterated water and helping in the growth of spurious business of adulterated water.

It becomes essential for us to consume quality marked bottled water which is processed at water plants using aseptic filling technologies ensuring delivery of safe drinking water.

Living With The Dead - By Kashti-E-Sahil..by IIT Delhi Students

This presentation is on the local people around the Yamuna Bank at the Old Iron Bridge in Delhi.

सूखे से त्रस्त मराठवाड़ा

महाराष्ट्र का मराठवाड़ा इलाका इन दिनों सूखे की बड़ी मार झेल रहा है। इस इलाके के लोग अपने घरों के छोड़ कर चले गए। जानवरों तक के लिए पानी उपलब्ध नहीं है।

An Urgent Call for Action: Undernourished Children of INDIA

Over the last 10 years, India witnessed a rapid and robust growth, which enabled millions of people to escape poverty. India, however, still remains one of the most undernourished countries in the world. Indias 2005 National Family Health Survey -3 (NFHS) found 46% of children below the age of 3 years were underweight and 38% were stunted. The survey findings highlight that neither economic growth nor food security is likely to be sufficient to lower the prevalence of malnutrition. Factors such as appropriate infant and young child feeding, hygiene and sanitation, prevention and treatment of illnesses and status of women are critical.

With a double PhD, this man was begging in the streets

Dinesh Dwivedi, age 50, a retired school teacher, spent large parts of his day begging in the streets of Jaipur. He has a pension of Rs. 35,000 a month, and owns a small haveli in the walled city of Jaipur and shops in this crowded market place.

Stunts by Poor Indian Children

Watch out the Stunts performed by two Indian Children.

Bajarang Bali Ji Bhajan by Indian Beggar Part 3 (Hindi) (720p HD)

A beautiful Hindi Bhajan "Bajarang Bali Ji" sung by Indian Beggars at Sri Balaji Mandir Mehandipur (Sri Hanuman Temple, Rajasthan).

Magic Show in Jaipur, India for Anita Rosenberg

Street Magic by Rajasthani boy

This is in Jaisalmer. He was taking stuff out magically from onlookers ears, pockets, etc. So we told him to take out a coin out from our very own college professor's ear. He took it out of his nose.

Indian Girl Sings and Plays Drum With Great Heart

Indian Girl sings and plays Drum with Great Heart.

Amazing singing by indian beggar girl

Indian beggar girl singing in Ambaji Temple, Gujarat.

Indian Begger Part 2 (Hindi) (720p HD)

Nothing to say about Video as Title is enough. God may bless everyone. I hope that any Indian or International NGO may train these people for their income source as He has all qualities to do his business or job.

Unseen Realities of India Part 1 (Hunter Boy)

Watch out Unseen Realities of India (First Time on Internet World). How a teenager boy with her sister is forced to beg some buckets for moneys in residential houses? That boy hurt his body with a hunter in front of every houses for gaining very little amount of money (Like Rupees five or ten etc). This incident was entirely natural and happens normally in every town of India.

Parents say 5-day-old baby died in hospital as they couldn't pay Rs. 200

The baby was born premature and needed to be kept in the incubator, but she was taken off because the father couldn't afford the Rs 200 advance money that the Jalandhar Civil Hospital demanded.

matchjake - how to help

Jake is a creative 5-year-old boy who desperately needs a bone marrow transplant. Help Jake find his match by sharing this video!

The Front Lines Against Hunger

World day against Child Labor (June 12)

World Refugee Day 2012 (June 20)

Live Footage of Five People swept by Flash Flood (India) (5 लोग नदी के ...

Watch out live footage of five people swept away in a flash flood. (Madhya Pradesh, India) (Voice : Hindi)

Five family members were swept in Patalpani area of Indore by a flash flood. (Madhya Pradesh, India)

Three members of a family were drowned as flash flood caused a sudden flow of water in the Patalpani waterfall near Indore. A tragedy for this family, as resulted - the father and 2 girls died while the 2 boys are alive.

This unfortunate incident took place in Madhya Pradesh, India. Five persons got caught in the rising waters of a flash flood. They lost their footing and got swept over the waterfall. As per last available reports two were saved, one dead body was retrieved and the remaining two were missing. Local people had warned the tourists against sitting in the risky areas of the stream to which some seem to have paid no heed.

Local team searched them farther downstream. Only two bodies recovered were found as far as away from it. Two boys survived the flooding.

Several agencies have try to find the missing individuals.

Note :

• 1) The National Guard should be called in to help with recovery and clean up in any such incidence.
• 2) It is always unbelievable and something you never expect to see or have to deal with during flood or waterfall area. So always be careful in waterfall region.

Consideration :

• 1) Getting thrown into rough waters like that is the scariest thing, even with a life jacket on.
• 2) They could have made it if they moved faster. If you see water rapidly rising, you need to act fast!.

If they would have just stayed in that one spot and waited it out they would have made it.

This was an act of God and something that we can not control.


In Hindi : 5 लोग नदी के बहाव में बह गए. ये बहुत ही दुखद घटना थी. जब भी आप वाटरफाल के पास जाये तो बहुत ही ध्यान पूर्वक चले. और आस पड़ोस का मुवाना करे की कहि पानी का फ्लो तो नही बड़ा गया हे.

Water crisis in South, Central Delhi

Indian museum: Erasing history?

आईएनएस विराट : समंदर का सिकंदर

Farmers dump wheat in cremation ground

Two good monsoons have ensured a bumper wheat harvest in Rajasthan, but it has also become a problem of plenty for the state as the government has no place to store the excess food grain. In Ganga Nagar in the state, the local Panchayat has come up with a unique idea. It's allowing farmers to dump the wheat at the local cremation ground till it's sold and the farmers are not complaining.

Battling the odds, shopkeeper's son makes it to IIT

18-year-old Rakesh Ranjan Nayak, son of a smalltime village shopkeeper in a nondescript village near Sarang-gad in Odisha's Kandhamal district, has made it really big. He's the state topper and ranked 154th in the national level IIT-JEE and 18 in the list of OBC category students. Rakesh wants to study electrical engineering in IIT Mumbai.

10-hour power cuts in Gurgaon, Millenium City

For the last two months, electricity supply in Gurgaon has been hit badly, and long hours of power cuts are the norm. Gurgaon demands 1000 MW power every day, but is getting just 700 MW per day, leaving the city powerless for 8 to 12 hours every day. No power means no water and leaving the Millennium City not only in the dark but grappling with one of its worst ever water crisis.