Clean Cooum with waterway transport to become reality
A clean Cooum with inland water transport facility would become a reality as efforts to expedite project implementation are on, Mayor M Subramanian said here on Wednesday.
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Debris clean-up in full swing along Yamuna
New Delhi: With the National Green Tribunal having come down hard on the Delhi and UP governments for their failure to prevent dumping of debris along the Yamuna, work has started at a breakneck speed
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Panel to plan rejuvenation of Arkavati
A three member committee will be formed to chalk out plans to rejuvenate Arkavati river, said Transport minister R Ashok on Sunday. Prayer time Transport Minister R Ashok, MP Ananth Kumar Yelahanka MLA S R Vishwanath and Dasarahalli MLA Muniraju offering prayers at Tippagondanahalli reservoir on Sunday. DH photo
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No north Indian river fit for bathing: Study
The famed rivers of India’s Gangetic plains are turning into “sewage”, threatening the life and health of millions of people dependent on them, warned a team of 11 environmental activists who cycled through
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Penance for Ganga
An environmental scientist continues his relentless battle to save the Ganga, this time by starting a fast unto death. THE campaign to save the Ganga has cost one life in the hill State of Uttarakhand.
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We all live downstream
When the first set of detailed data from Census 2011, Houses, Households Amenities and Assets, was released a couple of weeks ago, there was much flinching at the fact that around half of all Indians still defecate in the open. The census data also showed that piped and treated drinking water is presently enjoyed by just a third of Indian households. Now, the aim of providing sanitation and piped drinking water for all will demand increasing allocations. But the CSE report Excreta Matters: How urban India is soaking up water, polluting rivers and drowning in its own excreta shows that mere money just can’t solve the problem.
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Investigation
This investigation into Delhi's underbelly began with a visit to a sewage treatment plant located in the eastern part of the city, situated between a highly congested and relatively poorer part of
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Row over water treatment at tributary of Pampa
Radhakrishnan Kuttoor PATHANAMTHITTA: The direct treatment of water in the Njunangar stream, a tributary of the Pampa, using ferrous chloride has kicked up a controversy.
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Study finds dangerous chemicals in water samples of Periyar
Endosulfan among toxins found in water samples The water in most of the areas upstream of the Periyar such as Pathalam bund near the Edayar industrial site, the point where Chalakkal Thodu joins the Periyar, the riverside near FACT and near the Merchem Edayar discharge point contained dangerous chemicals such as endosulfan, according to a report filed before the Kerala High Court by the National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST), Thiruvananthapuram.
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Greens protest metro entering Yamuna floodplain
NEW DELHI: While constructing the Yamuna Bank station on the river bed, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation had taken into account all environmental concerns.
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DoE fines paper mill Tk 25 lakh
The Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday fined a paper mill Tk 25 lakh in Munshiganj for illegally running the mill for seven years and polluting the river Meghna. A team from DoE detected that
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Turner of tides: Australian makes boat to ferry pilgrims, fight Ganga pollution
ALLAHABAD: Taking up the cause of freeing Ganga from pollution, Australian national Andrew Turner, 45, will swim against the current of the river. At Sangam along with his family and friends from Australia and Canada, Turner is launching from Thursday a boat built by himself and named Karuna to ferry pilgrims free. Participating in the mega Maha Kumbh again was a long cherished dream for Andrew and his companions since they attended the first pilgrimage way back in 1989. Andrew had tried to be there for Maha Kumbh in 2001 but could not make it.
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Judgement of the National Green Tribunal on the issue of a storm water drain being misutilised for carrying untreated sewage water and polluting river Betwa, Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh, 11/08/2014
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Neeraj Chourasiya Vs State of Madhya Pradesh & Others dated 11/08/2014 regarding the storm water drain being constructed
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Why cities cannot simply flush
Untreated waste water is a health hazard. Nonetheless, it should be considered a resource. Unless it is recycled and re-used, it will be impossible to provide all people in the cities of developing countries
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Trend analysis and spatial assessment of various water quality parameters of river Jehlum, J&K, India for an inclusive water quality monitoring program
The water quality issue in Kashmir has not yet got its due importance. A comprehensive water quality monitoring program is indispensable to assess the water quality status of the national rivers. This
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Proposal to turn drains into roads opposed
Members of Yamuna Jiye Abhiyaan, a civil society consortium working in the area of restoration of the Yamuna and its various tributaries, has written to Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways Dr. C. P. Joshi stating that “they were alarmed by the fact that the Ministry had recently sanctioned proposals from the Delhi Government to turn a few of the city drains into roads''.
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DoE fines paper mill, brick fields
The Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday fined three paper mills in Chittagong and six brick kilns in Rangpur, Feni and Chittagong a total of Tk 2,625,000 for environmental pollution. Jafar Alam,
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AGENDA 2012-17. Environment Clean-up needs money, tough hand
It is time the government stopped treating environment as a soft subject. The health of the people and future growth of the state depend on it. Funds — lack of which has held up sewage treatment plants
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Man on mission clean rivers
Deeply touched by the worsening state of rivers in the country, Sardar Gurmeet Singh, an environmentalist, today embarked upon an unprecedented trek of 600-odd kms to Har-ki-Pauri in Haridwar. His motto: Save water, save life! The solitary trekker has plans to walk 10 hours a day and if the weather remains fair, hopes to reach his destination in the next 13 days.
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Pulled up for LAXITY
Lucknow's Gomti river looks more like a drain