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Kerala’s Kozhikode to have more water testing labs
The Hindu
The laboratories are part of a State-wide programme of the Haritha Keralam Mission and the Department of Education to make water testing facilities available in every local body
P.T.A. Rahim, MLA, will open two water testing laboratories in Kozhikode district of Kerala on Monday and Tuesday, adding to the tally of 12 such laboratories run by the Haritha Keralam Mission. The laboratory at the Kunnamangalam Higher Secondary School will be opened at 3 p.m. on Monday, while another at Government Higher Secondary School, Iringallur, will be opened at 4 p.m. on Tuesday. The laboratories are part of a State-wide programme of the Haritha Keralam Mission and the Department of Education to make water testing facilities available in every local body. The labs are all attached to the existing chemistry laboratories at government higher secondary schools and are funded through the local development funds of MLAs.![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20250217064624.jpg)
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.