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 …
Apprehension still haunts different quarters as to whether the administration would be able to provide safe drinking water to the estimated 30 lakh Rath Yatra visitors as majority of water samples collected from different sources were found to be contaminated.According to sources, a total of 679 water samples were tested …
BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh Food and Drugs Administration (MPFDA) has once again failed to meet Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) deadline for submission of report. The latest failure comes after food safety regulator asked state FDA to test items like chocolates, noodles, pastas, macaroni and similar products in …
On a recent domestic flight, Ramachandra TV, a senior IISc professor, was given a water bottle by the air hostess. The professor got curious seeing the manufacturing label that gave a Jigani address in Bengaluru. He brought the bottle to his lab and tested for quality. To his shock, he …
Petition carrying 500,000 signatures delivered to Sacramento and Los Angeles water bottling facilities as state suffers through fourth straight year of drought Hundreds of protesters gathered in front of two Nestle bottling plants in California on Wednesday to deliver petitions demanding the company stop bottling operations in the drought-stricken state. …
Jos — The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) is to conduct quality tests on table water factories in Plateau State and all over the country to ensure compliance with standards. North-central Zonal Coordinator of NAFDAC, Mrs Josephine Dayilim, disclosed this in Jos yesterday at the …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Southern Zone, Chennai) in the matter of M/s. Kuberan Aqua Industries Vs The Chairman Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board dated 15/05/2015 regarding restoration of the electricity connection of a packaged drinking water unit for maintaining the membranes and machinery of the Unit. The applicant …
Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board’s district unit has forwarded a report to its head office suggesting issuance of closure order to a packaged water bottling unit near here, which was under criticism of farmers in the vicinity for causing pollution. Board’s District Environmental Engineer (Tirupur North) K. Elankumaran told The …
The National Green Tribunal has directed the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) to inspect Coca Cola's bottling plant in Varanasi and submit record of water consumption and effluent discharge of the unit. A bench headed by Justice U D Salvi also directed …
BHOPAL: Be watchful before you quench your thirst by drinking packaged drinking water or consuming sweets. These two are from a list of many food products that Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found adulterated in state capital. Approximately, every sixth food sample was found of substandard quality in Bhopal in …
If you are tired of servicing you water purifier at home and thinking of switching over to 20 litre packaged drinking water for once and all, it's time you give it a re-think. Water, which is being supplied to almost every household by Tom, Dick or Harry, is not at …
This study is focused on the elemental analysis of fourteen-branded domestic bottled water available in the Al- Qassim area of the Saudi Arabia. The concentration of nineteen elements (Be, B, Al, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, As, Se, Mo, Ag, Cd, Sb, Ba, Sn, and Pb) on the …
BENEATH the frozen flanks of East Asia’s most revered mountain, in China’s north-eastern Jilin province, a huddle of sleek new processing plants will soon be packaging its precious essence: spring water. Known to the Chinese as Changbaishan, the mountain and its premium mineral water are the stars of the country’s …
The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has called a high-level technical meeting on February 6 to discuss safety standards of bottled water sold in the city. The move followed a research paper by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre scientists about the presence of bromates, classified as possible carcinogens, in some bottles. …
Many licensed units are allegedly extracting groundwater There are nearly 64 water packaging units operating in Delhi, many of them allegedly extracting groundwater, even as the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) has no statistics of such units. The list of water packaging units across India with BIS licence in 2014 …
Disinfection by-products (DBPs) are formed during treatment of water for drinking purposes. Among these oxyhalide DBPs, viz. bromate, chlorate and chlorite are potentially harmful to humans. In the present study packaged drinking water samples of various commercial brands, available in Mumbai, were analysed for bromide, bromate, chlorite and chlorate ions …
GURGAON: Forget tap water, if you thought packaged drinking water was safe in the city, think twice. Though only four samples of packaged drinking water were collected by the food safety department from two units in Gurgaon in the last three years, analysis showed that all were unfit for consumption, …
ISLAMABAD: A report compiled by the Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) has found eight mineral water brands unsafe for human consumption as they contain chemicals and germs. The report, available with Dawn, compiled during July to September 2014 shows that samples of as many as 65 brands …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Raj Hans Bansal & Others Vs Ministry of Water Resources & Others regarding illegal borewells extracting underground water unauthorizedly and illegally in the various parts of Delhi. Previous Orders
Groundwater pollution due to anthropogenic activities may impact overall groundwater quality. Organic and inorganic pollutants have been routinely detected at unsafe levels in groundwater rendering this important drinking water resource practically unusable. Vulnerability of groundwater pollution and subsequent impact has been documented in various studies across the globe. Field studies …
Over 10,000 illegal packaged water bottling units are operating in the NCR, often using labels of the 64 licensed manufacturers, putting the health of millions of people at risk, say industry officials.But local health officials seem oblivious of the danger to people's health and safety. “Only 64 water bottling plants …
