SAFE DRINKING WATER FOR ALL Over the years, technologies developed n several CSIR laboratories have enabled provision of safe drinking water to the remotest areas throughout the country. W HEN drinking water, the elixir of life, comes polluted quality of life can never be ensured. And when an organization steps in to clean-up and purity highly polluted water to make it fit for drinking, there can be no greater service to the citizens of the country than this. The laboratories of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) have been rendering this service for many years past, especially for areas that cannot afford expensive, high-end water filters. In many villages of West Bengal, drinking water laced with arsenic (150 times above WHO recommended levels) and high iron content had made life miserable and disease-prone for the inhabitants. The CSIR- Central Glass and Ceramics Research Institute (CSIR-CGCRI), Kolkata, stepped
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