Dip in water quality in urban areas
The Hindu
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The quality of drinking water in several urban pockets of Puducherry has deteriorated further in the last two to three years, residents claim.
Marguerita Helene, 70, a resident of Rainbow Nagar, said drinking water quality is poor in her locality. “The quality of drinking water started deteriorating 10 or 12 years ago. At a point of time, we could not consume water supplied by the municipality. The water turned completely saline from 2010. Then, we opted for RO. After repeated complaints, the municipal authorities said the Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) in the water had crossed 2,000 parts per million (ppm) and the authorities said they have started mixing water from other localities to bring down the TDS level before supplying it to Rainbow Nagar,” Ms. Helene said.
In the last two to three years, the water has become even more hard and salty, said V. Ramakanthan, a resident of Krishna Nagar, adding that food, especially rice, cooked in the water tastes different. “Food also does not get cooked properly. Many of my family members complain of hair loss and doctors have said substandard water used for bathing could result in hair loss and skin diseases,” he said.
When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.
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