{"id":18122,"date":"2023-12-14T06:37:56","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T01:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=18122"},"modified":"2025-04-05T08:50:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T03:20:18","slug":"amrit-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/amrit-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"What is AMRIT Technology?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Amrit Technology<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is developed for the removal of\u00a0Arsenic and Metal ions from water.<\/li>\n<li>The technology uses\u00a0nano-scale iron oxy-hydroxide, which selectively removes arsenic when water is passed through it.<\/li>\n<li>This water purifier has been developed for both\u00a0domestic as well as community levels.<\/li>\n<li>Also, the technology has been recommended by the erstwhile \u2018Standing Committee\u2019 of the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation for the examination of the best technologies concerning water and sanitation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key points about Arsenic<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0natural component of the earth\u2019s crust and is widely distributed throughout the environment in the air, water and land.<\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0highly toxic in its\u00a0inorganic form.<\/li>\n<li>Properties\n<ul>\n<li>In its most stable elemental state, arsenic is a steel-gray, brittle solid with\u00a0low thermal and electrical conductivity.<\/li>\n<li>Although some forms of elemental arsenic are metal-like, the element is best classified as a nonmetal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It has been recognized as\u00a0a toxic element and is considered a human health hazard.<\/li>\n<li>Long-term intake of arsenic contaminated water leads to arsenic poisoning or arsenicosis, with cancer of skin, bladder, kidney or lung or diseases of skin.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>World Health Organisation\u2019s provisional guideline value for arsenic in drinking water &#8211;\u00a00.01 mg\/l (10 \u03bcg\/l).<\/li>\n<li>Permissible limit of arsenic in India in absence of an alternative source &#8211; 0.05 mg\/l (50 \u03bcg\/l).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is\u00a0Electrical conductivity?<\/h3>\n<p>Electrical conductivity is the measure of the amount of electrical current a material can carry or it&#8217;s ability to carry a current. Electrical conductivity is also known as specific conductance. Conductivity is an intrinsic property of a material.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1985137\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Amrit Technology For Removal Of Arsenic And Metal Ions From Water<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMRIT Technology is developed for the removal of Arsenic and Metal ions from water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}