Most surface waterbodies like rivers, lakes, and ponds in the State stand poor on water quality parameters like the Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD) and Total Dissolved Solids (TDS). In fact, even underground water sources like wells, tanks and tube-wells fair worse than rivers in developed countries, as brought out in the just released annual report of the Gujarat Pollution Control Board. By ...

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