{"id":8005,"date":"2024-06-14T03:25:05","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T03:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8005"},"modified":"2024-06-14T03:25:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T03:25:05","slug":"people-in-goa-may-be-ingesting-microplastics-along-with-their-drinkingwater-a-new-study-by-the-national-institute-of-oceanography-nio-and-delhi-based-advocacy-group-toxics-link-has-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/current-affairs\/people-in-goa-may-be-ingesting-microplastics-along-with-their-drinkingwater-a-new-study-by-the-national-institute-of-oceanography-nio-and-delhi-based-advocacy-group-toxics-link-has-found\/","title":{"rendered":"People in Goa may be ingesting microplastics along with their drinkingwater, a new study by the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) and Delhi-based advocacy group Toxics Link has found."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The studyClean Drinking Water: A Pipe Dream?assessed Goastapwater and found that the potable water supplied to homes is contaminated with microplastics, one of the sources of which could be the PVC pipes.<\/p>\n<p>Microplastics (MP) are particles of plastic that are less than 5mm in size and have been recognised globally as one of the most critical emerging marine pollutants, due to their persistence, ubiquity and toxic potential.<\/p>\n<p>Though plastic <a href=\"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/waste-management\">Waste Management<\/a> rules have been in force in the country, public awareness and participation holds the key to improving plastic waste management and the subsequent reduction in microplastic pollution. Various stakeholders, including the , government, civil <a href=\"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/society-notes-for-state-psc-exams\">Society<\/a> organisations, need to collaborate to bring about change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The studyClean Drinking Water: A Pipe Dream?assessed Goastapwater and found that the potable water supplied to homes is contaminated with microplastics, one of the sources of which could be the PVC pipes. Microplastics (MP) are particles of plastic that are less than 5mm in size and have been recognised globally as one of the most &#8230; <a title=\"People in Goa may be ingesting microplastics along with their drinkingwater, a new study by the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) and Delhi-based advocacy group Toxics Link has found.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/current-affairs\/people-in-goa-may-be-ingesting-microplastics-along-with-their-drinkingwater-a-new-study-by-the-national-institute-of-oceanography-nio-and-delhi-based-advocacy-group-toxics-link-has-found\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about People in Goa may be ingesting microplastics along with their drinkingwater, a new study by the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) and Delhi-based advocacy group Toxics Link has found.\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095],"tags":[753],"class_list":["post-8005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goa","tag-10-08-21"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.2 (Yoast SEO v23.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>People in Goa may be ingesting microplastics along with their drinkingwater, a new study by the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) and Delhi-based advocacy group Toxics Link has found. - Current Affairs Exam<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/current-affairs\/2024\/06\/14\/people-in-goa-may-be-ingesting-microplastics-along-with-their-drinkingwater-a-new-study-by-the-national-institute-of-oceanography-nio-and-delhi-based-advocacy-group-toxics-link-has-found\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"People in Goa may be ingesting microplastics along with their drinkingwater, a new study by the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) and Delhi-based advocacy group Toxics Link has found.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The studyClean Drinking Water: A Pipe Dream?assessed Goastapwater and found that the potable water supplied to homes is contaminated with microplastics, one of the sources of which could be the PVC pipes. Microplastics (MP) are particles of plastic that are less than 5mm in size and have been recognised globally as one of the most ... Read more\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/current-affairs\/2024\/06\/14\/people-in-goa-may-be-ingesting-microplastics-along-with-their-drinkingwater-a-new-study-by-the-national-institute-of-oceanography-nio-and-delhi-based-advocacy-group-toxics-link-has-found\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Current Affairs Exam\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-06-14T03:25:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"rawan239\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"rawan239\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"People in Goa may be ingesting microplastics along with their drinkingwater, a new study by the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) and Delhi-based advocacy group Toxics Link has found. - Current Affairs Exam","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/current-affairs\/2024\/06\/14\/people-in-goa-may-be-ingesting-microplastics-along-with-their-drinkingwater-a-new-study-by-the-national-institute-of-oceanography-nio-and-delhi-based-advocacy-group-toxics-link-has-found\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"People in Goa may be ingesting microplastics along with their drinkingwater, a new study by the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) and Delhi-based advocacy group Toxics Link has found.","og_description":"The studyClean Drinking Water: A Pipe Dream?assessed Goastapwater and found that the potable water supplied to homes is contaminated with microplastics, one of the sources of which could be the PVC pipes. Microplastics (MP) are particles of plastic that are less than 5mm in size and have been recognised globally as one of the most ... Read more","og_url":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/current-affairs\/2024\/06\/14\/people-in-goa-may-be-ingesting-microplastics-along-with-their-drinkingwater-a-new-study-by-the-national-institute-of-oceanography-nio-and-delhi-based-advocacy-group-toxics-link-has-found\/","og_site_name":"Current Affairs Exam","article_published_time":"2024-06-14T03:25:05+00:00","author":"rawan239","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"rawan239","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/current-affairs\/2024\/06\/14\/people-in-goa-may-be-ingesting-microplastics-along-with-their-drinkingwater-a-new-study-by-the-national-institute-of-oceanography-nio-and-delhi-based-advocacy-group-toxics-link-has-found\/","url":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/current-affairs\/2024\/06\/14\/people-in-goa-may-be-ingesting-microplastics-along-with-their-drinkingwater-a-new-study-by-the-national-institute-of-oceanography-nio-and-delhi-based-advocacy-group-toxics-link-has-found\/","name":"People in Goa may be ingesting microplastics along with their drinkingwater, a new study by the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) and Delhi-based advocacy group Toxics Link has found. - Current Affairs Exam","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/current-affairs\/#website"},"datePublished":"2024-06-14T03:25:05+00:00","dateModified":"2024-06-14T03:25:05+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/current-affairs\/#\/schema\/person\/5807dafeb27d2ec82344d6cbd6c3d209"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/current-affairs\/2024\/06\/14\/people-in-goa-may-be-ingesting-microplastics-along-with-their-drinkingwater-a-new-study-by-the-national-institute-of-oceanography-nio-and-delhi-based-advocacy-group-toxics-link-has-found\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/current-affairs\/2024\/06\/14\/people-in-goa-may-be-ingesting-microplastics-along-with-their-drinkingwater-a-new-study-by-the-national-institute-of-oceanography-nio-and-delhi-based-advocacy-group-toxics-link-has-found\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/current-affairs\/2024\/06\/14\/people-in-goa-may-be-ingesting-microplastics-along-with-their-drinkingwater-a-new-study-by-the-national-institute-of-oceanography-nio-and-delhi-based-advocacy-group-toxics-link-has-found\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/current-affairs\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"People in Goa may be ingesting microplastics along with their drinkingwater, a new study by the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) and Delhi-based advocacy group Toxics Link has found."}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/current-affairs\/#website","url":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/current-affairs\/","name":"Current Affairs Exam","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/current-affairs\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/current-affairs\/#\/schema\/person\/5807dafeb27d2ec82344d6cbd6c3d209","name":"rawan239","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/current-affairs\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/761a7274f9cce048fa5b921221e7934820d74514df93ef195a9d22af0c1c9001?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/761a7274f9cce048fa5b921221e7934820d74514df93ef195a9d22af0c1c9001?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"rawan239"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com"],"url":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/current-affairs\/author\/rawan239\/"}]}},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}