Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
LUCKNOW: An ailing Yamuna may heave a sigh of relief if claims of Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam are anything to go by. The corporation has claimed that the 144 million litres per day (mld) capacity water treatment plant in Agra will start functioning in less than a year. Chairman, UPJN, …
A village in northern Jordan depends on polluted water from a spring, as four German and Arab students discovered. Their final report shows how matters could be improved.
Plans to build a £3.6bn “super-sewer” to end the dumping of untreated effluent into the Thames are attacked in a report commissioned by London borough councillors and seen by the Financial Times. Thames Water, which says there is no practical alternative to its plans for the sewer, aims to tunnel …
The Ganga Action Programme is a very ambitious scheme. It aims to clean one of the world’s longest rivers using sophisticated and expensive technologies. But the project does not sufficiently recognise that the river flows through one of the poorest and the most densely populated regions of the world. Municipalities …
Let out by residents living along banks and even government agencies Buckingham Canal is the most polluted of the three major waterways in the city with nearly 60 per cent of the estimated 55 million litres of untreated sewage being let into it daily, including by Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply …
Raids conducted by the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) on 68 electroplating industries in Jalandhar and Ludhiana have found 42 of them flouting norms that make it mandatory for industries to ensure waste is treated at the Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) in Ludhiana. PPCB Chairman K S Pannu said …
The overpowering stench of municipal waste hits one hard on entering Boragaon. Women and children from the nearby squatter’s colony squabble over the garbage unloaded by trucks from Guwahati, the sprawling business hub of northeastern India and a million-plus city of Assam. A sole adjutant stork, an endangered bird, meditates …
LUCKNOW: Thronged by thousands of devotees on a daily basis, Sangam, the confluence of Ganga, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati in Allahabad will have a different set of visitors on September 23 and 24. Conservationists and scientists would be in the Sangam city to participate in the meet called 'Ganga …
Guwahati, the sprawling million plus city of north eastern India has grown at the cost of vital wetlands. While the rich legally bought the water-bodies, the poor ‘illegally’ encroached on them. With major storm water basins in the city disappearing, every monsoon, Guwahati reels under flashfloods. The June 22 police …
For more than two decades, Huta Ram Baidya has led the Save Bagmati River campaign. An affable, octogenarian activist and Nepal’s first agricultural engineer, his views have been widely circulated in the country’s regional language press, radio, television and on websites. He tells Aditya Batra that the river’s extreme degradation …
One of your more quoted statements is that the Bagmati is dirty because there is too much money flowing in it. Bagmati is nature. She needs to be honoured and feared like nature. Feared like a teacher. She does not like money. Hindus believe when they die, they will be …
Jal Board Blames DDA For Blocking Sewer Lines While Covering Drains New Delhi: Sewage is flowing from the taps of the upscale Defence Colony homes. Harried residents are being forced to buy drinking water. Residents complain they have been receiving smelly and discoloured water for almost a month. When they …
Coral reefs are in severe decline. Infections by the human pathogen Serratia marcescens have contributed to precipitous losses in the common Caribbean elkhorn coral, Acropora palmata, culminating in its listing under the United States Endangered Species Act. During a 2003 outbreak of this coral disease, called acroporid serratiosis (APS), a …
The sewage treatment plants in Gurgaon are unable to handle the daily load, taking away the gloss of impressive residential highrises and ultra-modern office buildings of the city. Pools of sewage water from overflowing drains is a common site across the city, as officials say the sewage treatment plants (STPs) …
Problems of contaminated water supply continue to plague Delhiites. This time it is residents of upmarket Vasant Vihar who have been getting sewage-contaminated water supply for the past three days. Delhi Jal Board officials who responded to calls after two days inspected the site on Wednesday and cleared the blocked …
Sewage routinely contaminates the Hudson River, according to a report released on Tuesday after four years of water testing in which one-fifth of the water samples indicated that the river was unsuitable for swimming and other recreation. The study, issued by the environmental group Riverkeeper, underscores how a big sewage …
Taking cognisance of the report appeared in various periodicals that the water supply of Delhi Jal Board (DJB) is contaminated, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) today issued a notice to the DJB to explain what measures it has taken to ensure potable water in the city. The reports were …
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued a notice, returnable in four weeks, to the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) Chairman seeking a report on the news items that stated contaminated water was being supplied in many areas in the city due to cracks in the pipeline. The Commission wanted …
Karnataka State Pollution Control Board has come with Sewage Treatment Guidebook in the interest of general public. This guidebook takes the reader through the various units, operations and processes in a typical Extended Aeration Biological Treatment Plant.
Pollution is passe. Millions of Kumbh pilgrims bathing in the Ganga did not know they were taking a plunge right in the filth of untreated sewage. A CAG report reveals the shocking saga of the Uttarakhand government's callous mismanagement.
