Environmental Quality Monitoring Group
Basic Objectives
Monitor environmental quality to support citizens' initiatives
Develop user-friendly environmental quality monitoring techniques
Build the capacities of citizen's groups and voluntary organizations to gather and interpret pollution data
Major Activities
Monitoring water, air and soil quality
Monitoring pesticides and heavy metals in the environment
Fluorosis mitigation
Research to develop low-cost pollution monitoring methods
Training programmes in measuring and interpreting pollution data
Some Important Projects
(Some projects listed below have rollover links to their full briefs)
Development of Water Quality testing kits
Epidemiological study of air pollution's impact on human health in Dehra Doon
Mercury contamination of groundwater by the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal
Environmental impact assessment of the establishment of the Pench Tiger Reserve
Fluorosis mitigation in Sonbhadra
, Nuapada and Palamau districts
Water quality monitoring of Hindon (U.P.), Kali (Karnataka) and Kosi (U.P.) rivers
Monitoring pollution by tanneries, pharmaceuticals and soft drinks manufacture
Impact of pesticides use by tea-gardens on the Gorumara National Park, Darjeeling
Environmental impact studies of the Ken-Betwa river link
Biomonitoring of Ganga river water quality
Community-based water quality monitoring
EQMG Brochure
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EQMG Brochure
Developed by
: People's Science Institute, Dehra Doon, Uttarakhand, India
email: psiddoon@gmail.com www.peoplesscienceinstitute.com