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 …
Surajeet Dasgupta & Viveat Susan Pinto / Delhi/mumbai August 2, 2010, 0:57 IST The proposed joint venture between Tata Global Beverages (TGB) and PepsiCo, announced this April to develop beverages in the health and wellness space, is likely to begin with developing affordable water. Discussions are on, say sources, on …
On the bottled water revolution Bottled water consumption in the US, and worldwide, has been growing rapidly for two decades. It really began when bottlers started using plastic bottles. In my book, Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water, I argue there are four major reasons …
New Delhi: A fake mineral water manufacturing unit in Ghaziabad was busted on Friday. The factory was in operation for the past several years and it was supplying mineral water to various areas in Delhi and NCR, police said. The unit, located in Sahibabad, used to pack the water in …
The Delhi high court has directed the Centre to constitute a taskforce to ensure compliance of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) norms for manufacturing and selling packed drinking water in the city. The court passed the direction after the complainant, Bottled Water Processors Association, moved the high court alleging …
NEW DELHI: The Delhi Government has constituted a seven-member task force to take stringent action against illegal water bottling plants operating in the city. Coordination
KOCHI: The role played by the Kerala Water Authority (KWA) in quenching the thirst of Kochiites has been instrumental though not without problems associated with the services offered by the government. Now the KWA has decided to launch packaged potable water in Kochi which has so far been the monopoly …
Additional Chief Secretary and Principal Secretary (Industries) T Balakrishnan has let loose a controversy by expressing his charging over the government decision to close down the bottling plant of Coca Cola. The unit at Palakkad had to wind up production over excessive exploitation of water and discharge of effluents. Earlier …
The Delhi High Court on Monday ruled that no packaged drinking water can be sold in the Capital without the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) certification mark. In an order that is going to change the entire scenario of units selling packaged water, Justice S Muralidhar said the water quality …
A green-house experiment on three sub-tropical semi-arid soils was conducted to investigate the effect of different sludge types of coca-cola soft drink industry viz. water treatment plant sludge (WTS), effluent treatment plant sludge (ETPS) and filter cake sludge (FCS) applied @1.0, 2.0 and 4.0 per cent on dry matter yield …
Coming down heavily on illegal units manufacturing and selling bottled drinking water, the Delhi high court directed the government to tighten the noose around them. Justice S. Muralidhar directed the government agencies to crack down on units manufacturing and selling drinking water without a licence and the Bureau of Indian …
New Delhi: To prevent the spread of water-borne diseases in summer, the Delhi high court has directed the government to tighten the noose around illegal units manufacturing and selling bottled drinking water. Justice S Muralidhar directed government agencies to crack down on units manufacturing and selling drinking water without a …
THE Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) has revealed that it has no information on the number of mineral water bottles being disposed of in the city every day. In an RTI reply, the DPCC also said it has no clue about Bisphenol A, a potentially hazardous chemical used to coat …
Near 27 per cent of packaged water samples have failed to meet the norms prescribed by the Bureau of Indian Standards, the Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday.
Coca-cola has been asked to pay Rs 216.26 crore against damages caused by its cola bottling plant at Plachimada. On March 22, a high powered committee of the Kerala government recomended the cola giant should compensate people for polluting their water resources. The sum is meant to compensate for agricultural …
Byravee Iyer / Mumbai March 22, 2010, 0:40 IST The bottled water brand leader is opening 35 new plants in smaller towns and entering the high-margin segments Bottled water brand leader, Bisleri
It's a damning statistic Shining India will cringe at. Over 1,000 children under five die of diarrhoea every day in India. Every day. In effect, a number greater than every child you know. Think about it. The numbers are better today than a couple of decades ago, but at its …
Leading packaged drinking water brands such as Bisleri, Bailey and Man- ickchand Oxyrich don't expect Ms Mamata Baner- jee's plans to sell cheap bot- tled drinking water to rail- way travellers to eat into their sales. However, indus- try experts feel that if the plans to set up six clean …
