The same goes for air and water contaminated with arsenic.
His nanomaterials-based water technology AMRIT is running successfully in the country to remove arsenic from drinking water.
Dangers of water contaminated with pesticides According to Prof T Pradeep: The term pesticide encompasses a whole range of chemicals.
These pesticides affect the health in almost every possible way.
India and contaminated water According to Prof Pradeep, the contaminated water is now everywhere in India which was previously thought to be limited to some specific areas only.
But to what extent the Indian water is contaminated – if you were to ask – I would say, to a very large extent…to dangerous levels.
Arsenic in food More than half of Indian agriculture is fed by groundwater which brings in the contamination and thus our food is contaminated.
Arsenic contaminated water in India In developing countries like India and Bangladesh, 50 ppb is considered as the accepted level for arsenic in drinking water.
The efficiency of Prof T Pradeep’s nanomaterials based water technology AMRIT to remove arsenic from groundwater Professor T Pradeep is very confident about his AMRIT, that is, nanomaterials-based water technology.
Commenting on the efficiency of his technology, he said: In most affected areas, we have about 250 to 300 ppb micro grams per litre of arsenic.