The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
PepsiCo Inc. is reducing the amount of plastic it uses to package its bottled water in the U.S., in the latest step by a beverage company to portray itself as environmentally conscious as bottled water sales slip. The new half-liter (16.9-oz.) bottle for Aquafina, the largest U.S. bottled water brand, …
AHMEDABAD: High level of contamination in form of e-coli bacterium was found in the samples from units bottling water and licensed by Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) to use the ISI mark. Of the 23 samples tested by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) after a TOI expose, three brands tested positive …
AHMEDABAD: Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) served closure notices to at least three major companies selling bottled water in residential and commercial neighbourhoods in the city after they failed tests for purity. These companies held licences issued by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). AMC has asked BIS to cancel their …
Rahul Mangaonkar & Paul John | TNN Ahmedabad: If racketeers bottling water containing harmful microbial organisms in appalling conditions and peddling it as an ISI marked product were posing a grave risk to public life, licensed '1ST manufacturers fare no better. "Getting licence for bottling and selling packaged drinking water …
Ahmedabad: Who is responsible and accountable to the unsuspecting consumers being fooled by racketeers who are peddling illegally ISI marked 'packaged drinking water? Is it Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) who issues ISI license for packaged drinking water plants if they comply with the prescribed standards? Or is it the …
Action After TOI Expose On Bottled Water Scam Team TOI Ahmedabad: Several agencies swung into action on Monday after the TOI expose on the bottled water racket and how it posed a health risk on the users. Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), which raided one such illegal bottling plant in …
As bottled water use continues to expand around the world, there is growing interest in the environmental, economical, and social implications of that use, including concerns about waste generation, proper use of groundwater, hydrologic effects on local surface and groundwater, economic costs, and more. A key concern is how much …
Mumbai: The Indian Railways is all set to join the branded bottled water bandwagon. The railways has decided to set up a drinking water plant at the base of Malang Hills at Ambernath, the foothills of the Sahyadari Mountain range. According to sources, in a year
The water resources ministry has inched closer to imposing a higher and unified cess on the use of water by industry. A sub-group of the ministry has affirmed that a cess on industrial use of water is necessary. The group has also recommended that those using water as a raw …
Water dispenser is relatively a new concept in the minds of Indian consumer. Usage of packaged water dispensers is rising among single user commercial segment.
The Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry is investigating public complaints regarding contaminated bottled drinking water, Public Health Services Deputy Director General Dr. Palitha Maheepala said. Dr. Maheepala said the Ministry has taken 52 samples of bottled drinking water to conduct tests and arrangements have been made to obtain samples from the …
Vadodara: The next time you buy a bottle of packaged water or even a water pouch at the station, be sure that even the state Government is unaware of the existence of the manufacturing company or of its quality assurance. An RTI application filed by a city based environmental activist …
Hundreds of gallons of groundwater flow to the surface in rivulets here each hour, helping to create this town's signature spring, a lush current typical of northern New England. Just uphill, a meadow stretches to the doorstep of Daniel Antonovich, a businessman with plans to bottle and sell about 250,000 …
Ruchita Saxena / Mumbai July 30, 2008, 5:45 IST The battle for bottled water business in the country is expected to intensify further with Coca-Cola, the world's largest soft drink-maker, pricing its latest offering BonAqua at par with its other water brand Kinley as part of its plan to retain …
Seminar focusses on technologies for processing drinking water CHENNAI: At a seminar conducted on packaged drinking water here on Saturday, officials from the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) underscored the need for adhering to good manufacturing practices. The seminar, primarily meant for manufacturers, focussed on methods to deal with microbial …
Press Trust of India / New Delhi July 23, 2008, 16:10 IST Global soft drinks major Coca- Cola is going for a major re-branding of its packaged drinking water, Kinley to push sales on the 'purity' plank. The re-branding exercise is aimed at increasing the company's share in the Rs …
