Water Pollution

LS members unite in bid to ‘save Ganga’

Cutting across political lines, Lok Sabha members on Monday joined hands to demand immediate intervention by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to save the Ganga and make it pollution-free at the earlie

Publication Date: 
15/05/2012
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Ganga, River Pollution, Water Pollution, India, Ganga Action Plan, River Action Plan, Sewage Pollution
Water Pollution

 A civilisational loss

For more than two decades, Huta Ram Baidya has led the Save Bagmati River campaign. An affable, octogenarian activist and Nepal’s first agricultural engineer, his views have been widely circulated in the country’s regional language press, radio, television and on websites. He tells Aditya Batra that the river’s extreme degradation bears testament to extreme cultural and environmental loss in the Kathmandu valley.

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Publication Date: 
31/08/2011
Aditya Batra
Down to Earth
Tags:
Bagmati, Kathmandu, Nepal, South Asia, River Pollution, River Action Plan, Water Pollution Control, Sewage Pollution, Sewage Treatment Plants (STP), India
Water Pollution

Flood it with fresh water to give it life

Yamuna can

Publication Date: 
20/03/2010
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Water Pollution, River Pollution, Yamuna, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), River Action Plan, Yamuna Action Plan, Floods, Delhi, Delhi Jal Board (DJB)
Water Pollution

Status paper on river Ganga: state of environment and water quality

The status paper on Ganga by the Ministry of Environment. Provides a critical analysis of GAP & says that river water quality has improved at many locations however, the critical parameters of water quality, which affect human health, exceed the prescribed standard limits at major locations.

Publication Date: 
01/08/2009
Ministry of Environment and Forests
Tags:
River Pollution, Ganga, Water Quality, Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD), Industrial Pollution, River Action Plan, Ganga Action Plan, Hydrology, India
Environment

 How green is the budget?

Climate change and adaptive agriculture given a miss finance minister Pranab Mukherjee

Publication Date: 
30/07/2009
Down to Earth
Tags:
Environment, Agriculture, Food Policy, River Action Plan, Climate Change, Energy Policy, Renewable Energy, Cars, Health Care, Finance, Subsidies, National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), Government Of India (GOI), India
Water Pollution

 Coliform will count

Environment ministry admits bacteria is major river pollutant MAJOR rivers in India have high bacterial contamination, the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (moef) said in a press release dated December 24, 2008. Yamuna and Ganga top the list of most polluted rivers (see graph below). Bacterial contamination in water is indicated by the presence of coliform bacteria that find

Publication Date: 
30/01/2009
Ramya Swayamprakasham
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Pollution, River Pollution, Yamuna, Water Quality, Sewage Treatment Plants (STP), Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), River Action Plan, Micro Organisms, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF)
India

 Kolkata reconnects with its riverfront

An ambitious riverfront development project has been drawing many visitors in Kolkata. The Millennium Park runs along Strand Road, for a kilometre on the eastern bank of the Hooghly river and has

Publication Date: 
14/10/2007
Bharat Lal Seth
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Pollution Control, Hoogly, Water Quality, Sewage Treatment Plants (STP), River Action Plan, Green Spaces, Landscape Design, Tourism, India, West Bengal, Calcutta (D)
Water Pollution

Farewell to the Bagmati civilisation: Losing riverscape and nation in Kathmandu

The Kathmandu reaches of the Bagmati River are widely characterised as severely degraded. This article explores the rhetorical life and death of the concept of a 'Bagmati civilisation': a particular configuration of history, cultural identity and river ecology espoused by a prominent Nepali river restorationist.

Publication Date: 
01/06/2007
Anne Rademacher
National Identities
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Kathmandu, Bagmati, Rivers, South Asia, Nepal, Habitat And Urbanisation, History, Riverine Ecology, River Pollution, River Action Plan, Water Pollution
Water Pollution
National River Conservation Directorate
Water Pollution Control, River Pollution, Water Resources, River Action Plan, National River Action Plan, Ganga Action Plan, Delhi