{"id":272159,"date":"2026-06-13T04:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T08:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/13\/exclusive-tatas-iphone-parts-factory-contaminated-farmland-water-india-pollution-body-alleges\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T10:55:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T14:55:27","slug":"exclusive-tatas-iphone-parts-factory-contaminated-farmland-water-india-pollution-body-alleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/13\/exclusive-tatas-iphone-parts-factory-contaminated-farmland-water-india-pollution-body-alleges\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Tata&#8217;s iPhone parts factory contaminated farmland water, India pollution body alleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/environment\/tatas-iphone-parts-factory-contaminated-farmland-water-india-pollution-body-2026-06-13\/\">Exclusive: Tata&#8217;s iPhone parts factory contaminated farmland water, India pollution body alleges<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/environment\/tatas-iphone-parts-factory-contaminated-farmland-water-india-pollution-body-2026-06-13\/\">https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/environment\/tatas-iphone-parts-factory-contaminated-farmland-water-india-pollution-body-2026-06-13\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-13 04:34:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.reuters.com\">www.reuters.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul data-testid=\"Summary\" class=\"summary-module__summary__QjADA\">\n<li data-testid=\"Body\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__base__o--Cl body-module__small_body__gOmDf summary-module__point__UgXPz\">Pollution body issued warning notice to Tata on May 25<\/li>\n<li data-testid=\"Body\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__base__o--Cl body-module__small_body__gOmDf summary-module__point__UgXPz\">Body said Tata failed to take corrective action despite warnings<\/li>\n<li data-testid=\"Body\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__base__o--Cl body-module__small_body__gOmDf summary-module__point__UgXPz\">Tata says it is in &#8216;full compliance with all regulatory norms&#8217;<\/li>\n<li data-testid=\"Body\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__base__o--Cl body-module__small_body__gOmDf summary-module__point__UgXPz\">Tata is central to Apple&#8217;s manufacturing push beyond China<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>BENGALURU, June 13 (Reuters) &#8211; An \u200bIndian pollution regulator has alleged wastewater discharged from a Tata components factory for Apple&#8217;s (AAPL.O)<span style=\"border:0;clip:rect(0 0 0 0);clip-path:inset(50%);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px;white-space:nowrap\">, opens new tab<\/span> iPhone has contaminated the \u200cgroundwater for nearby farms and warned of a forced shutdown unless Tata gives a satisfactory explanation.India&#8217;s Tata Electronics is central to Apple&#8217;s push to diversify iPhone production beyond China and is the second-biggest supplier to Apple in South Asia after Taiwan&#8217;s Foxconn (2317.TW)<span style=\"border:0;clip:rect(0 0 0 0);clip-path:inset(50%);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px;white-space:nowrap\">, opens new tab<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"promo-box\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__base__o--Cl body-module__small_body__gOmDf article-body-module__promo-box__hVl8h\"> Sign up  here.<\/p>\n<p>The Tata plant under investigation is in Hosur in southern Tamil \u200bNadu state and makes back panels and other components for iPhones. Farmland owners near the plant had complained for months \u200bto the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board that wastewater from the factory was contaminating their land and \u2060open wells.<\/p>\n<p>The complaints led to five state inspections between December 2025 and May 2026, according to details from a previously unreported regulatory \u200bnotice dated May 25 and reviewed by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The inspections found that Tata discharged wastewater into a rainwater harvesting pond inside its facility \u200band that the pond overflowed to contaminate &#8220;groundwater in the open wells located in the adjacent agricultural lands&#8221;, the pollution board&#8217;s warning notice to Tata said.<\/p>\n<p>Tata had not taken any corrective actions on instructions issued by the pollution board in a previous letter dated December 23, 2025, it said in the three-page notice.<\/p>\n<p>Tata \u200bElectronics told Reuters in a statement it had commissioned an independent analysis through an accredited laboratory and that the study determined the \u200bcompany was &#8220;in full compliance with all regulatory norms&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Tata said it was &#8220;committed to responsible business practices and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/environment\/tatas-iphone-parts-factory-contaminated-farmland-water-india-pollution-body-2026-06-13\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Tata&#8217;s iPhone parts factory contaminated farmland water, India pollution body alleges https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/environment\/tatas-iphone-parts-factory-contaminated-farmland-water-india-pollution-body-2026-06-13\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":272160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/resizer\/v2\/DQGJ5YZCWJKCDFW4KEA5PAWUHU.jpg?auth=1a65c2d3f4b9c00507eed1b13208158a21618e298538897bf807fbda169653a7&height=1005&width=1920&quality=80&smart=true","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272161,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272159\/revisions\/272161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}