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This is a message that has both sermons and promises. "Stop polluting the Yamuna now,' it says. We don't have to look far for the target of this admonition. Alongside is a non-descript person washing
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Conservationists urge govt to prohibit water projects in Western Ghats
Though conservationists welcomed the directions issued by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) prohibiting mining and all Red category Industries within 4,089 villages in the Western Ghats across
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Mining causing water crisis in Meghalaya
SHILLONG, Feb 26 – The mineral-rich Jaintia Hills district of Meghalaya faces an acute drinking water crisis as major rivers there have been declared “unfit” for human use due to high level of acidity
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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding regarding pollution of river Ashwani Khad, Solan, Himachal Pradesh, 11/03/2019
<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Court on its own Motion Vs State of Himachal Pradesh & Others dated 11/03/2019 regarding pollution of river Ashwani Khad which was supplying
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Polluted Yangste river may be dead in five years
The Yangtze river, China's largest, is heavily polluted and threatens millions living along its banks, said the state media recently. Environmentalists fear the pollution might turn the Yangtze
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Endangered gharials die mysterious death
more than 40 gharials were found dead downstream in the Chambal river, ahead of its confluence point with the Yamuna. Preliminary reports indicated liver cirrhosis was among the causes of the
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Maharashtra Pollution Control Board to post weekly report of effluent treatment online
Come January, the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) will have to post on its website a weekly report on the performance of central effluent treatment plants (CETP) installed across the state-owned
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Seasonal variation in the aquatic environment of Ram Ganga river at Moradabad: A quantitative study
Ram Ganga river water at 10 different sites at Moradabad were collected and analysed at pre monsoon period and after the onset of monsoon following standard methods of sampling and testing. River water is found to be contaminated with reference to almost all the physico-chemical parameters studied at almost all the sites of sampling for pre-monsoon period as well as after the onset of monsoon.
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Follow Up
The Delhi high court and the city's lower courts are proving to be the major obstacles in the way of cleaning the Yamuna river, the Union urban development ministry recently stated in a reply to the
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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding industrial pollution by Grasim Industries chemical division, Nagda, Madhya Pradesh, 09/02/2023
<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zone Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Sheikh Shakir Vs Grasim Industries Ltd. Chemical Division & Others dated 09/02/2023.</p> <p>The NGT, acting on
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Harmful chemicals pollute river Cauvery, says study
The Chemplast Sanmar and MALCO companies in Mettur have been polluting river Cauvery and the farmlands in and around Mettur with unmindful discharge of harmful chemicals, said a study conducted by
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Phytoplankton diversity of two rivers of Kerala with special reference to aquatic nutrients
The present study has been carried out to estimate the phytoplankton diversity of Neyyar and Karamana rivers with special reference to aquatic nutrients. This type of study is relevant since these rivers form the source of water for public distribution system.
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Aiming for a scrubbed clean look
When it originates from a lake called Fulhaar Jheel near Madho Tanda east of Pilibhit, the Gomti is a stream. Gradually, it starts growing. Around 100 km away from the point of its origin, this stream is joined by tributaries like Sukheta, Choha and Andhra Choha near Mohammadi Kheri, a tehsil of Lakhimpur Kheri. The stream now turns into a river.
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Bacterial (free living and particle bound) cell-size in the surface waters of river Cauvery and its upstream tributaries
Heterotrophic bacteria are accounted for the most important proportion of decomposers in the aquatic ecosystems, which are responsible for key process regulating the function and productivity of ecosystem through the microbial loop. Heterotrophic bacteria in the fresh water ecosystem form a major part of the food web and mediate important processes in the carbon budget. As in both fresh water and marine waters, the biomass and size distribution of bacteria are important parameters of ecosystem function.
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Is contaminated Kawai fish posing threat to gharials in Chambal?
The Kawai fish carrying heavy metals like lead and cadmium are entering the Chambal River from the polluted areas of the Yamuna River and are posing threat to the gharials of National Chambal Sanctuary areas falling in Madhya Pradesh. Locals say that the gharials who eat Kawai fish suffer from liver cirrhosis.
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Order of the National Green Tribunal regrarding unrestricted mining of sand from the riverbed of river Basloi, Jharkhand, 27/09/2019
<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Birsa Munda Seba Sartha Vs Union of India & Others dated 27/09/2019 regarding unrestricted mining of sand from the riverbed of river Basloi,
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Project permissions in RRZ in accordance with Central law: Devendra Fadnavis
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has told ET that the recent permissions given to industries to set up plants within two kilometres of River Regulatory Zones ( RRZ) are in accordance with the
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Hunger strike demanding pure drinking water
No water treatment plant in Mavelikara, says activist A severe shortage of pure drinking water, coupled with the callousness of the authorities in supplying untreated water taken from the endpoint of
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The movement of aquatic mercury through terrestrial food webs
Mercury is a persistent contaminant that biomagnifies up the food web, causing mortality, reproductive failure, and other health effects in predatory wildlife and humans. From 1930 to 1950, industrial mercuric sulfate entered the South River, a tributary of the Shenandoah River in Virginia (United States). To determine whether this mercury concentration had moved into the adjacent terrestrial food web, the researchers anlayzed total mercury concentrations in blood from adults of 13 terrestrial feeding bird species breeding within 50 m of the river.
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Tilapia fish may have killed gharials in Chambal
scientists seem to have come to a conclusion on what could have killed more than 100 gharials in Chambal waters recently. Tilapia, an invasive fish could have caused the deaths along the Uttar