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 …
KATHMANDU: The Department of Food Technology and Quality Control (DFTQC) today disposed 50 jars of Ava branded bottled water that were unsafe for drinking. The water was confiscated from Bhakti Food Industries, Sitapaila, on August 11 by the Metropolitan Police Balaju beat after receiving complaints from local consumers and submitted …
Revenue-earning scheme conceived in 2008 After several failed attempts to establish a water bottling unit at Aruvikkara, the Kerala Water Authority (KWA) has initiated the process yet again. The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) made certain adverse remarks on the water utility’s failure to take the project to its logical …
The government will set up eight bottling plants - to be called 'Pran Dhara' - across the state in different districts to produce and supply safe bottled drinking water. The project will be implemented by the state public health and engineering (PHE) department. State PHE minister Subrata Mukherjee said that …
The groundwater level in the city and the district is on a steady downward curve perhaps due to the city’s heavy dependence on tubewells for harnessing of water sources. In spite of good rainfall over the past couple of years, the water table has receded to as low as 300 …
Detected In Samples Collected From Plants In Jalna, Parbhani Pune: Traces of cyanide, a powerful poison and chemical contaminant, have been found in packaged drinking water during a routine exercise of the Food and Drugs Administration to check samples. This is the first time cyanide has been found in packaged …
NGT Worried About Illegal Dealers Selling Packaged Water The western zone bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in Pune has passed an order prohibiting unauthorized extraction of groundwater for commercial use after it was found that the presence of large quantities of fluoride in it is affecting villagers in …
Land meant for Coca-Cola plant should be returned to panchayat, says HC. The Nainital High Court’s order on Monday that land meant for a Coca-Cola plant should be returned to the Chharba gram panchayat has brought relief to the locals. The villagers have been opposing the setting up of the …
Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) today seized 37,000 bottles of water from a bottling plant of a popular brand of drinking water in Dalugama after it was found that the the water contained some kind of a chemical. CAA officer, who led the raid, said the bottled water had an odor …
A mobile court on Tuesday sealed off a water factory and penalised two others in Chittagong for producing substandard drinking water which is harmful to public health. The mobile court of Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution, led by an executive magistrate, conducted a drive in the port city in the …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (southern Zone, Chennai) in the matter of M/s. Karukvel Ayyanar Enterprises Chennai & Others Vs The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India New Delhi and others dated 25/02/2014 regarding manufacture and sale of packaged drinking water without Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) certification …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Sri Amman Mineral Waters Pvt Ltd Mathuvarapuram Coimbatore Vs The Chairman Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board Chennai and others dated 07/02/2014 regarding packaged drinking water manufacturing units over exploited areas. NGT Southern Zone has asked the applicant not to install …
Regulatory body makes assertion in affidavit to National Green Tribunal, Southern Bench The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), the highest regulatory body in the country, said no person should manufacture or sell ‘packaged drinking water’ without the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) certification mark. FSSAI made this …
Farmers blame drastic fall in groundwater table on bottling plant, saying it draws out far more water than can be naturally recharged Till the late 1990s, Bansi Aheer, like all other farmers around Kaladera, used to irrigate his seven-bigha farm, drawing water from a well. “Water was easily available at …
Slamming the Uttarakhand government for encouraging industrial development in the ecologically sensitive region, environmentalist Anil Prakash Joshi opposed the proliferation of industries in the State, which, according to him, is “being promoted by the State government.” The criticism of the Bahuguna government by Dr. Joshi, who is the founder of …
it's a right: Volunteers take part in the campaign against privatisation of water in Bangalore on Monday. In a bid to stop water privatisation in all its forms in Karnataka, ‘Namma Neeru’ – a month-long campaign – was launched on Monday. Freedom fighter H S Doreswamy flagged off the initiative …
Directs TNPCB to ensure their closure The National Green Tribunal, Southern Bench, on Wednesday ordered the immediate closure of 252 packaged drinking water units across Tamil Nadu as they came under the ‘overexploited area’ category classified by the PWD. It also directed the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) to …
A drinking water crisis looks imminent in the state as members of the Tamil Nadu packaged drinking water manufacturers on Wednesday declared an indefinite strike in protest against the National Green Tribunal's order directing the pollution control board to close down 252 water units. The units were found to be …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of M/s Pure One Products Vs Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board Ors dated 03/01/2014 regarding packaged drinking water units in Tamil Nadu. Original Source: http://www.greentribunal.gov.in/orderinpdf/148-2013(SZ)(OA)_3Jan2014.pdf
Cabinet Gives In-Principle Nod For Real Estate Bill The cabinet has decided to set up a potable water company near Malankara dam in Idukki, for which the government will soon release Rs 9.86 crore. Chief minister Oommen Chandy said here on Wednesday that the company would be set up under …
The government has taken measures to intervene to check the quality and the standards of bottled drinking water, said Chief Government Whip and Water Supply and Drainage Minister Dinesh Gunawardena in Parliament. The minister made this observation yesterday joining the committee stage debate of the Appropriation Bill 2014 on the …
