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 …
The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) has imposed severe rules to drive out the packaged drinking water manufacturers away from business, alleged members of the trade during a protest here on Tuesday. The protesters condemned the actions of the TNPCB while holding a hunger strike here. The association members …
The Health Ministry yesterday said they would recommence inspecting bottled water sources within the next few weeks. The spokesman for the Health Ministry said that the number of complaints received regarding the quality of bottled drinking water during the last few months had prompted the Ministry to gather all bottled …
The units claimed they were adding 'nannari', 'athimathuram' and some other herbs saying these were good for health. (AP) The units claimed they were adding 'nannari', 'athimathuram' and some other herbs saying these were good for health. (AP) SummaryGovernment has issued notice to 22 firms which sold what they claimed …
Around 1,000 packaged drinking water units do not have the mandatory consent from the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB), as per submissions of counsel before the National Green Tribunal, Southern Bench, here on Monday. Only 153 units function with relevant consents, while 200-odd herbal water units without clearances were …
Manipur Deputy Food Safety Commissioner, Directorate of Health T Brojendro has said many complaints have been filed about unsafe drinking water which are sold in the market in the state. Most of the packaged mineral water sold in Manipur was found unfit for drinking. So many companies have spurt up …
Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) today informed the Southern Zonal Bench of the National Green Tribunal that majority of packaged drinking water units in the state don't have its permission to operate. As many as 814 units out of 967 do not have its nod, TNPCB stated in its …
Several substances deemed unsuitable for human consumption such as grease and oil were found inside mineral water bottles sold in Pettah following a raid carried out by the Consumer Affairs Authority, CAA Chairman Rumy Marzook said today. Mr. Marzook said that they had raided about 200 shops in Pettah yesterday …
They were operating without licence or product approval The Tamil Nadu Food Safety and Drug Administration Department (Food Safety Wing), Coimbatore Unit, on Wednesday issued closure notices to three flavoured water manufacturing units here for operating without licence or product approval. The action follows an instruction, issued on Monday, by …
The National Green Tribunal, Southern Bench, has expressed shock over 800-odd packaged drinking water units functioning without consent from the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board TNPCB). Questioning the inaction of the officials, the members of the Tribunal wondered how such units were allowed to function all these years. The Tribunal, …
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has issued notice to nine packaged drinking water units in the district asking them to stop production within seven days or face closure. This comes in the wake of the direction from the National Green Tribunal that ordered the closure of …
A market monitoring team of the Department of Commerce and Supply Management (DoCSM) shut down Suddha Pani situated in the Pepsicola town planning area on Monday. The department took action against the company after it failed to abide by the purity standards set by the government. According to the DoCSM, …
Federal Minister for Science and Technology Zahid Hamid has said that companies were selling unhygienic bottled water in the most parts of the country. Addressing a big gathering at Pasrur tehsil flood affected village Chahoor, he said that the federal government had taken serious notice of the larger scale selling …
Naina packaged drinking water, manufactured by Shri Sai Mineral Corporation, located at Mehlan village in Sunam tehsil in the district, has been tested unsafe for human consumption for the second time in the past eight months. The sample collected on August 2 by district health authorities was tested by the …
The Department of Food Technology and Quality Control has sealed four mineral water companies of Kathmandu for not maintaining good hygiene in their final products, said a statement from the Department on Sunday. In the bottled and jar water products manufactured by those companies, micro organism like coliform, faecal coliform …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) is all set to make government agencies accountable for the quality of drinking water supplied by them. Taking up a public spirited person’s letter as suo motu, the tribunal issued notice to the State agencies to file replies. It was already conducting a hearing on …
Despite strict checking by the authorities, a large number of companies continue to sell highly contaminated bottled water, according to a study. A quarterly report issued by the Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) has shown that 12 brands of water were found contaminated with high arsenic content. …
Two of 34 companies that used to sell bottled water in Noida and Greater Noida till they were closed in February for illegally extricating and selling groundwater, were granted permission Tuesday by the National Green Tribunal to reopen. Counsel for AST Beverages and Khaitan Beverages told the bench the companies …
Heard of any municipal corporation operating a mineral water bottling plant before? The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) now plans to set up a mineral water plant near its Kotarpur sewage treatment facility that will treat water to high levels of purity and then bottle them in 200 ml and 1 …
The southern bench of the National Green Tribunal directed the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board to inspect all 997 private packaged drinking water units in the state and conduct sample tests. With the help of food safety and drug administration department, PCB has to submit the report on August 26. …
Opposition legislators tried to disrupt the question hour in Kerala Assembly on Wednesday over the alleged move of the Government to privatise drinking water supply in the State through the CIAL-model Kerala Drinking Water Supply Company Ltd. The House witnessed noisy scenes after the Minister for Water Resources, P. J. …
