{"id":1014644,"date":"2026-06-16T07:36:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T02:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1014644"},"modified":"2026-06-16T07:41:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T02:11:40","slug":"indian-officials-survey-farms-around-tata-iphone-parts-plant-after-water-pollution-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/16\/indian-officials-survey-farms-around-tata-iphone-parts-plant-after-water-pollution-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian officials survey farms around Tata iPhone parts plant after water pollution warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOSUR: Indian officials stepped up government checks on farmland surrounding Apple supplier Tata&#8217;s iPhone parts factory near Bengaluru on Monday, after Reuters reported state authorities found discharge from the plant had contaminated groundwater. <\/p>\n<p>Tata Electronics is central to Apple&#8217;s push to diversify iPhone making beyond China. The plant facing scrutiny is located in Hosur, 25 miles south of tech hub Bengaluru, and makes \u200cback panels and \u2060other \u2060components for iPhones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOSUR: Indian officials stepped up government checks on farmland surrounding Apple supplier Tata&#8217;s iPhone parts factory near Bengaluru on Monday, after Reuters reported state authorities found discharge from the plant had contaminated groundwater. Tata Electronics is central to Apple&#8217;s push to diversify iPhone making beyond China. The plant facing scrutiny is located in Hosur, 25 miles south of tech hub Bengaluru, and makes \u200cback panels and \u2060other \u2060components for iPhones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014664,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014644\/revisions\/1014664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}