A narrow, broken road runs alongside Nattuthodu, a canal clogged with water hyacinth and mucky water. In a hushed tone, she says, “If the supply does not arrive, we will run out of drinking water by the evening.” Shantha’s four-member family has been relying on private water supply for several years for drinking and cooking, whether in the rainy season …
The Vembanad lake has been highly contaminated with faecal waste as a recent international study has recorded E.coli contamination of alarming levels in the waterbody. However, during the lockdown period, there was 99.8% decrease in the average abundance of E. coli, said A. Abdulaziz of NIO, who was the lead author of the scientific paper ‘The distribution of faecal contamination …
