Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …
Trash-free water at the Rio Olympics is not guaranteed but sailing competitors can at least expect a “fair” tournament, a top official said Wednesday. Barely two weeks from the start of the Games, the Brazilian hosts are scrambling to reassure competitors that the bay staging the sailing and windsurfing contests …
Putting a step forward towards ensuring supply of piped drinking water to every households in Bihar as promised in his pre-election 'Seven Resolves', Bihar CM Nitish Kumar on Wednesday inaugurated a total of 340 piped water supply schemes worth over Rs 215.46 crore through remote control, at a colourful programme …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Budget Utilisation for Clean Ganga Mission, 21/07/2016. As on 30th June 2016, 97 projects has been sanctioned under Namami Gange programme (including the existing projects sanctioned under NGRBA programme) in 53 towns at an estimated project cost of Rs 8588.21 Crore. Out of these …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Nimami Ganga Yojana, 21/07/2016. As on 30th June 2016, 97 projects has been sanctioned under Namami Gange programme (including the existing projects sanctioned under NGRBA programme) in 53 towns at an estimated project cost of Rs 8588.21 Crore. Out of these 12 projects are …
Development works planned at 3 beaches, road to be widened; bridge work at Kotekar Food and Civil Supplies Minister U T Khader on Tuesday said 30 pure drinking water plants will be set up in different parts of the district. Addressing mediapersons here, Khader said, by setting up these units …
Report says amount of methane produced per head of cattle has increased since 1990 Ireland’s livestock agriculture is less climate-change efficient than the European average and the State’s land-use policy is neither climate-smart or sustainable, a new report claims. Irish agriculture is less efficient than the authorities claim and compares …
An Act to provide an overarching national legal framework with principles for protection, conservation, regulation and management of water as a vital and stressed natural resource, under which legislation and executive action on water at all levels of governance, as also water-use and water-related actions by persons and their associations, …
A study of drinking water sources in Kandal province found widespread contamination from human excrement, posing a health risk to residents that likely mirrors the situation across Cambodia, the authors say. Published last month on the website of the Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, the study also …
About 12,000 tonnes of rubbish dumped on the edge of Lake Tai continues to pose a contamination risk to drinking water in Suzhou, but local authorities and residents still can’t agree on exactly what the garbage contains, mainland media report. In one instance, Suzhou police discovered on July 1 that …
Corporations and other multinational institutions are increasingly looking to evaluate their innovation and procurement decisions over a range of environmental criteria, including impacts on ecosystem services according to the spatial configuration of activities on the landscape. We have developed a spatially explicit approach and modeled a hypothetical corporate supply chain …
About a hundred miles north of Miami on the Atlantic Coast, the town of Stuart is a picturesque waterfront community — with homes, restaurants and parks overlooking the St. Lucie Estuary. But in many areas now, when you approach the water, the first thing you notice is the smell. "There's …
As if Brazil wasn't already plagued with enough problems, the country has just been hit with a dangerous new blow ahead of the 2016 Olympic Games. A group of Brazilian scientists has just discovered a drug-resistant super-bacteria growing off some of Rio de Janeiro's beaches, with less than a month …
Chilkalguda, Lallaguda rail quarters hit. Hyderabad: More than 150 residents from the Chilkalguda and Lallaguda railway quarters, including 40 children fell ill after drinking contaminated water. The water is supplied to the residents by railway authorities and they were immediately rushed to the Secunderabad area railway hospital, where they are …
While the work was being done off the coast of the city’s Kiryat Haim neighborhood, a boat carrying out the dismantling process accidentally damaged one of the pipes, causing the remaining oil contained within to leak out. A spokesman for the company noted that as soon as the event happened, …
One of the biggest environmental disasters to hit Vietnam was caused by a unit of a Taiwanese conglomerate leaking toxic waste into the sea, the Hanoi government said on Thursday, ending months of mystery and rare public outrage. Formosa Ha Tinh Steel, a subsidiary of Formosa Plastics, has promised $500 …
The projects engineered by the Ministry of Water and Irrigation through Dar es Salaam Water and Sewerage Authority (DAWASA) are part of an initiative towards increasing water supply coverage notably in areas with no water distribution networks. However, besides becoming beneficial to over 300,000 people, the projects face serious low …
After nearly three decades of depending on silted water from Lake Cohoha in southern Rwanda, Mukahigiro Davita, one of the residents living in the villages along the banks of this lake, now fetches water free of sand, soil and mud. Mukahigiro’s new ray of hope is as a result of …
This policy brief analyzes the position of air pollution in the SDGs, and makes recommendations for how air pollution could be better integrated into SDG implementation. The SDGs, with 17 goals, 169 targets, and even more indicators, were criticized by some for having too many goals and lacking a clear …
This paper examines the impact of drinking water quality and sanitation behavior on child health in rural districts of Ethiopia. Using primary household survey data and microbiological water test for Escherichia coli, use various estimation methods to quantify the impacts of water quality and sanitation behavior on diarrhea incidence among …
This paper examines the impact of drinking water quality and sanitation behavior on child health in rural districts of Ethiopia. Using primary household survey data and microbiological water test for Escherichia coli, use various estimation methods to quantify the impacts of water quality and sanitation behavior on diarrhea incidence among …
