PUNE: The Pimpri-Chinchwad municipal corporation (PCMC) approved a resolution at a meeting on Monday to clean up the riverbeds of Pavana, Mula and Indrayani rivers to increase the water carrying ca

It seems that Ganga, the holy river that has been nurturing the Indian civilization since time immemorial but today cursed with manmade pollution, has become a potential issue for all sections like

ALLAHABAD: The UP pollution control board has decided to monitor the water quality of Ganga and Yamuna on a weekly basis. They would conduct weekly test and analysis of the quality of water.

JOWAI: With an aim of spreading the message to the younger generation and to the people residing in the mineral rich, East Jaintia Hills District that water is a finite source, a day long mass awa

Allows Mining In Country’s Best Sal Forest, Elephant Reserve In Jharkhand

New Delhi: The environment ministry’s statutory expert panel, the Forest Advisory Committee (FAC), has bypassed its rules and earlier orders to clear iron mining projects by three private firms in the country’s best sal forest and the core zone of the elephant reserve in the Saranda forest division of Jharkhand.

Upcoming project in MP to displace local tribal population; proposed site in highly seismic zone near Kanha National Park

Locals of Mandla district will once again raise their voices against 1400 MW NPCIL (Nuclear Power Corporation India Limited) Chutka project which is coming up in highly seismic zone, near Kanha national park and adjacent to one of the least polluted river Narmada. State government officials have already issued land acquisition notices to local people, almost all of them are tribal, and have slapped a NEERI (National Environmental Engineering Research Institute) report which is Greek to them.

The Bombay high court (HC) on Monday directed National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (Neeri) to present short and long term solutions to the civic body by June 20 to curb Godavari ri

Preliminary study by varsity department points to dip in oxygen level in the Karamana

The mass mortality of fish reported from the stretch of the Karamana, near the Thiruvallam and Pallathukadavu ghats last week, could have been caused by the unusual rise in water temperature, reduction in flow and a surge in the concentration of sewage pollution.
A preliminary study conducted by the Department of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries, University of Kerala, says the mass fish kill was due to an abrupt dip in the dissolved oxygen in water. Head of the Department A. Biju Kumar says the rise in temperature and reduction in water flow coincided with the summer.

River Tapi stinks because of release of untreated sewage water into it by many government and other offices.

Asian Development Bank has approved a loan of USD 80 million to modernise and expand the sewage network and treatment facilities in the Kathmandu Valley home to 2.5 million people.