<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Umashankar Patwa & Anr. Vs. Union of India & Ors. (Earlier Titled as D.K. Joshi Vs. Union of India & Ors) dated 21/12/2017 regarding
People in the Philippines rouse themselves to save the valley of their ancestors
A startling fact that the Manipal KMC Hospital wastes are being released to the Swarna river, thereby polluting the waters of the main source of drinking water of the temple town of Udupi in
<p>An expert committee appointed by National Green Tribunal (NGT) has recommended fining spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s Art of Living Foundation Rs 120 crore for damage to Yamuna floodplains while making preparations to hold spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s “World Culture Festival” from March 11 to 13, 2016 on banks of the river.</p>
The quality of water in four streams of Cauvery River in Mandya District, where many small scale sugar and brewery distilleries are located, was analysed. Sampling was carried out from four streams designated as station 1 (upstream of effluent discharge point), station 2 (effluent discharge point) and station 3 (downstream of effluent discharge) station 4 (fresh water
<p>The Observations and Modeling of the Green Ocean Amazon (GoAmazon2014/5) Experiment was carried out in the environs of Manaus, Brazil, in the central region of the Amazon basin for 2 years from 1 January
Mumbai, July 10 BMC says nothing to panic, drinking water safe, but decomposing fish worries locals Thousands of dead fish were found floating on the Bhatsa river, which supplies water to Mumbai, early on Thursday morning, spreading panic in a Thane village, and nearby areas. While some attributed the large number deaths to pollution and use of chemicals in the fields, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said there is no reason to panic and the drinking water is safe for consumption.
NEW DELHI: Questioning the bona fides of the National Environment Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests and the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) on their shifting stands over the construction of the Commonwealth Games Village along the Yamuna riverbed in East Delhi, the Delhi High Court on Monday constituted an expert committee to go into the whole
Our rivers are in a bad state, have been for a long time. That is not surprising, seeing that we have been concerned about the situation for years. What now appears to give it a new twist is the result of a survey carried out on some of the rivers, 25 in total. Predictably, the quality of the water in the rivers has dwindled to a precarious state. Worse is the knowledge that some of these rivers may actually have reached a point where they are no longer capable of nurturing or supporting aquatic life forms in them.
Agovernment environment regulator in the uk has been pulled up for the first time for failing to check the pollution of a river. The Environment Agency (ea) was fined about us $14,000 and ordered
in one of the worst environmental disasters in Latin America, a dam constructed at a zinc mine and supposed to contain the tailings
If anybody needed a reminder of how crippling bureaucracy can be, consider the campaign to clean up the sacred Yamuna River in Delhi. The river oozes through town like a putrid ribbon of black sludge. Its level of fecal bacteria is 10,000 times higher than what's deemed safe for bathing.
Closure notices have finally been served to 57 commercial establishment that have been polluting the Mithi river. The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has started slapping these notices on
‘How many drains join the river from Kanpur to Uttar Pradesh border’ The National Green Tribunal has sought a compliance report on the steps taken by the Centre, U.P. and Uttarakhand governments to
<font face=arial size=3 color=#CE181E><b>•</b></font> Ensure all waste, legal and illegal, is trapped and treated to keep the drain clean <br><font face=arial size=3 color=#CE181E><b>•</b></font> Augment and optimise treatment facilities, where needed, to treat this waste. Appropriate technologies of scale (centralised or local) should be adopted <br><font face=arial size=3 color=#CE181E><b>•</b></font> Ensure treated effluent is reused and not mixed with untreated effluent before it flows to river
NEW DELHI: Kicking off the process to implement its ambitious clean Ganga mission, the Centre has sanctioned six new sewage treatment plants (STPs) for different cities and towns along the river in Uttar
A series of articles discuss the effects of environmental pollution on public health.
River erosion has taken a serious turn in different border villages of three upazilas in Netrakona with at least 300 dwelling houses and 600 acres of crop land devoured in the last three days. The people living near the Sumeshowary and Kongsa rivers here are passing days with fear as the two rivers are fast eroding houses and crop land, local sources said. The erosion-hit villages are Shibgonj, Dakumara, Kamarkhali and Birishiri under Durgapur upazila, Fakirar Bazar and Dashdar under Barhatta upazila and village Borail under Netrakona sadar upazila.
A team of Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board personnel on Wednesday removed nine illegal dyeing units that were polluting River Cauvery near Pallipalayam in Tiruchengode Taluk. District Environment Engineer
Mercury contamination in rivers can spread to nearby birds, even ones that don't eat fish or other food from the water. Researchers from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va., found high levels of mercury in the blood of land-feeding songbirds living near the South River, a tributary of the Shenandoah, they report in Friday's edition of the journal Science. The South River was contaminated with industrial mercury sulfate from 1930 to 1950 and it remains under a fish consumption advisory.
