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 …
A stretch of river fouled by toxic waste from an abandoned gold mine in southwestern Colorado last week was reopened to kayaking and rafting on Friday while water from river-fed irrigation canals was deemed safe for crops and livestock. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency also said it was safe for …
Five million litres of sewage leaked into Botany Bay after a power outage on Friday, Sydney Water has revealed. The leak occurred when a high-voltage powerline malfunctioned, causing Cronulla's waste-water pumping station to lose power and discharge sewage into the water at the southern end of Woolooware Bay. As well …
A book with pages that can be torn out to filter drinking water has proved effective in its first field trials. The "drinkable book" combines treated paper with printed information on how and why water should be filtered. Its pages contain nanoparticles of silver or copper, which kill bacteria in …
A report concludes that blooms of toxic cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, are a poorly monitored and underappreciated risk to recreational and drinking water quality in the United States, and may increasingly pose a global health threat. Several factors are contributing to the concern. Temperatures and carbon dioxide levels have risen, …
Two more public housing estates joined the list of those with excessive lead in their water supply, the government announced this evening, noting that at one of them the level exceeded the WHO’s safety standard by more than 14 times. The latest estates hit by the contamination crisis are Un …
Rio de Janeiro can be proud of the four Olympic test events held so far in the city, the head of the Rio 2016 coordinating committee said on 12 August, as officials once again played down concerns over athletes safety in the citys polluted waterways. Recent tests commissioned by the …
The Democratic Alliance has warned people in Tembisa, on Johannesburg's East Rand, to avoid water in the area because high levels of harmful bacteria have been found. "The water contains extremely high levels of E.coli bacteria - acceptable levels are 1 000, the levels found in Tembisa water is 43 …
Air quality remains normal in the region near the warehouse which was destroyed by blasts Wednesday night, the Tianjin environmental bureau said. The city immediately began to monitor the air and water quality after the blast, setting 17 monitoring stations for air and five for water, according to the bureau. …
The water quality of a southwestern Colorado river rendered bright orange by toxic waste spewed from an abandoned gold mine one week ago has returned to pre-existing levels, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief said on Wednesday. The statement from EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, whose agency's inspectors inadvertently triggered the …
Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday declared that his government was against privatization of water and that even if there was private participation in water projects, it would be restricted to construction. Operation and distribution, the CM said, would remain in the hands of the government. Kejriwal made the statement …
Around 60 million Indonesians, or 39 percent of the total population, do not have access to proper toilets, causing disease and even death, an official has stated. “As a result, 5 million babies in Indonesia face the risk of death,” said Rina Agustin, secretary director general of the Public Works …
More than 300,000 homes in Lancashire have been told that they may have to boil their drinking water after a microbial parasite was discovered in their supply. United Utilities, which provides water and sewage services to around seven million people in North West England, found traces of the parasite cryptosporidium …
Hundreds of doom-laden studies about the effects of climate change on the Earth's oceans may be flawed and unreliable, a major review has found. For years, scientists have warned that rising levels of carbon dioxide are marking our seas more acidic – and that this spells disaster for marine life. …
Drainage officials are investigating suspected illegal waste water discharge along the banks of Sha Tin's Shing Mun River - once notorious for its foul odour. A thick, orange-brown sludge was seen seeping out of a storm drainage outlet outside the Hong Kong Heritage Museum and floating several metres downriver on …
Four water samples taken from flats in phases one and two of Wah Fu Estate in Pok Fu Lam contained the heavy metal nickel, a skin irritant, at well above the World Health Organisation standard, the Democratic Party said yesterday. Although the 20 samples taken were all clear of lead …
Thousands of Dublin homeowners are receiving letters from Irish Water this week warning households their water may be contaminated with lead above the safe legal limit. More than 2,000 letters have been sent to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown area and parts of Dublin this week, and the same letters will be sent …
Abeokuta — Corporate Relations Director, Guinness Nigeria Mr. Sesan Sobowale, has disclosed that over six hundred million people worldwide lack access to clean water with over sixty million of the figure found in Nigeria. While speaking recently in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital during inauguration of a water project by Guinness …
The development of coal seam gas could lower the water table in Gippsland by more than 15 metres, creating potential problems for farmers and the environment, state government water studies have found. But the extraction of other types of onshore "unconventional gas" in Gippsland, and all forms in the Otway …
The National Green Tribunal today directed the Uttar Pradesh government to immediately provide clean drinking water in six western districts of the state. A bench headed by NGT chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar directed the state chief secretary to provide potable water to Muzaffarnagar, Shamli, Meerut, Baghpat, Ghaziabad and Saharanpur, through …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on pollution in rivers during Kumbh Mela, 06/08/2015. Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and UP State Pollution Control Board monitor the water quality of river Ganga and Yamuna at identified locations at Sangam, Allahabad during Kumbh Mela to ensure that water quality at Sangam meets …
