water pollution
The industrial effluent released by dyeing and bleaching factories in Tirupur, a major hosiery centre in South India has become a serious issue because it has had severe impact on water bodies. After semi-treatment or without treatment, the effluents are released into Noyyal river.
The Noyyal Merely 173 km-long, the seasonal river essentially carries untreated sewage and industrial effluents from the towns of Coimbatore and Tirupur for most of the year. With no freshwater for dilution, the untreated sewage and effluents severely contaminate groundwater. As it is, the area is rainfall- deficient.
climate change
The impacts of climate change aren’t in the distant
future – they’re already here in India.
Climate change often exacerbates existing issues
for both water quality and water quantity.
water pollution
The industrial effluent released by dyeing and bleaching factories in Tirupur, a major hosiery centre in South India has become a serious issue because it has had severe impact on water bodies. After semi-treatment or without treatment, the effluents are released into Noyyal river.
The Noyyal Merely 173 km-long, the seasonal river essentially carries untreated sewage and industrial effluents from the towns of Coimbatore and Tirupur for most of the year. With no freshwater for dilution, the untreated sewage and effluents severely contaminate groundwater. As it is, the area is rainfall- deficient.
climate change
The impacts of climate change aren’t in the distant
future – they’re already here in India.
Climate change often exacerbates existing issues
for both water quality and water quantity.
How it effects you
Climate change often exacerbates existing issues for both water quality and water quantity.
If this was the pathetic story so far of the villages along the Noyyal river, the worst has befallen downstream in the boomtown of Tirupur – infertility is staring the villagers in the face.
Fishes floating along the river because of discharge of toxic industrial waste and attendant loss of agriculture is now pass. What rattles the villagers more is the increasing rate of infertility among men and women and its social consequences.
Not surprisingly, there is a surge in the rural populace approaching fertility clinics which have mushroomed in Erode, Tirupur, Karur and Coimbatore districts. There are about 30 hospitals in Erode and Tirupur – the worst affected by water pollution because of effluent discharge from dyeing and bleaching units.
If this was the pathetic story so far of the villages along the Noyyal river, the worst has befallen downstream in the boomtown of Tirupur – infertility is staring the villagers in the face.
Fishes floating along the river because of discharge of toxic industrial waste and attendant loss of agriculture is now pass. What rattles the villagers more is the increasing rate of infertility among men and women and its social consequences.
Not surprisingly, there is a surge in the rural populace approaching fertility clinics which have mushroomed in Erode, Tirupur, Karur and Coimbatore districts. There are about 30 hospitals in Erode and Tirupur – the worst affected by water pollution because of effluent discharge from dyeing and bleaching units.
