Power connection to these units also disconnected The Board has also formed three-member flying squad to monitor the units Public requested to inform the squad members for taking action Tirupur: The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) on Thursday ordered closure of 10 Individual Effluent Treatment Plants (IETPs) in Tirupur for its failure to comply with the directives of Supreme Co
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to announce the decision on signing a memorandum of understanding on Ganga river basin management plan between the government and a consortium of IITs during his visit to the IIT-Kanpur on July 3. Singh has been invited to attend as the chief guest the annual convocation of the premier institute, which is celebrating its golden jubilee this year.
Water quality of river Mandakini was assessed from Sati Anusuya to Karwi. Altogether 4 samples were collected from each sampling station and 5 sampling stations were selected for analysis. The quality analysis was made through the estimation of temperature, turbidity, DO, pH, EC, TDS, sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, carbonate, bicarbonate, chloride, sulphate, nitrate and phosphate.
Delhi’s common effluent treatment plants, located in industrial areas to treat industrial waste, suffer from a unique problem. The treatment capacity is much more than the actual generation of effluent
With the LG giving it the nod, DDA is going ahead with its Yamuna project which will see land on both sides of the river being greened and developed. Work on the first stretch will start in a few months and the project should be completed in five years ?
In a joint document the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers released a proposed rule to clarify protections provided by the Clean Water Act. Following Supreme Court decisions in 2001 and 2006, there has
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh could boast of owning the country's biggest leather complex, if plans of UP State Industrial Development Corporation (UPSIDC) actualise. In a significant move, the corporation is planning to set up a Leather Park sprawling over an area of 1,500 acre in Unnao, bordering Kanpur district.
TWO Common Ef fluent Treatment plants (CETPs), 86 dyeing and washing units attached to these CETPs and an Individual Effluent Treatment Plant (IETP) were closed down by the Tirupur branch of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) on Wednesday, as the units were found to be discharging effluents into the Noyyal river. Based on complaints, a team of TNPCB officials, led by District Enviro
<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "sand mafia is taking complete control of illegal river sand mining" appearing in O Heraldo dated 13.02.2024.</p> <p>The
In a big move that could upset environmentalists, the Devendra Fadnavis-led BJP government has decided to scrap the River Regulation Zone (RRZ) policy that restricted industrial activity along river banks
SHILLONG: Endorsing the State government official team’s clean chit to four giant cement factories operating in Jaintia Hills district, Meghalaya Deputy Chief Minister Bindo Lanong attributed unscientific coal mining as a major cause of pollution of streams and rivers in Khleihriat sub division. It is an irrefutable fact that unscientific “rat hole’ mining has contaminated the water sources and bodies within the periphery of the rich coal deposited sites of Khliehriat sub division. Adding more woes was the scientific declaration that waste from cement plants was the cause of death of aquatic lives in Lukha river.
MUMBAI: A Rs 1.2-crore experiment has not been able to rid the Mithi of its stink. So the MMRDA is back to its favourite olfactory laboratory in the city, the bed of the Mithi. The MMRDA will commission on July 23 a new experiment to stop the stench at the Vakola nullah.
Feb. 4: After the failure of government agencies to clean Yamuna, spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has announced a three-month campaign to clean the river. The campaign "My Yamuna, My Dilli" has been organised in the wake of the Central Pollution Control Board
The year 2010 has brought new hope for the Gomti river, the lifeline of Lucknow. The river, which is a major source of drinking water for over 32 lakh people, is polluted the most in its 14-km stretch in the state capital, owing to millions of litres of untreated domestic waste that is released in it daily. In the next few months, things will change for the better.
NEW DELHI: On the first day of the Yamuna vigil organised by non-government organisation Yamuna Jiye Abhiyan at the Nizamuddin bridge here in the Capital, volunteers collected 21 packets of refuse which otherwise would have found their way into the river. A month-long vigil is being maintained on the bridge to save the river from being turned into a dumping ground.
New Delhi: Two years ago, 10 small villages along Yamuna were selected for a river restoration project. The Nadi Mitra Mandalis were given an action plan that included natural and organic farming, waste
Decrying indiscriminate use of natural resources and deforestation in the name of growth, Union Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan today said that industries and corporates should focus on protecting the environment and ensure balanced and sustained development. "...There are some industries, which feel that we should indiscriminately use natural resources, cut down our forests and use them for growth," she told reporters here on the sidelines of the annual general meeting of the Indian Plywood Industries Research and Training Institute, an autonomous body under the union ministry of environment.
<p>Joint Committee report by Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (JSPCB) in Original Application No 479 of 2022 (Krishna Chouhan Vs State of Jharkhand).</p> <p>The matter related to allegations of
Mumbai: Public water taps in the city could soon be a thing of the past. The state plans to replace them with bottled water booths to ensure slum dwellers get potable water at Rs5 for a 20-litre can. Water supply and sanitation minister Laxman Dhobale on Wednesday said his government plans to introduce the scheme in slum areas in the first phase.
Mumbai: The Union minister of state for environment and forest Jairam Ramesh is at it again. After taking on his cabinet colleagues from the mines, coal, power and surface transport ministries, the no-nonsense minister is now talking tough to the chief ministers of Maharashtra and Rajasthan, both of whom are from the Congress.
