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 …
Seventy per cent of the total municipal sewage and effluent from over 900 cities and towns are being discharged untreated into rivers which are a major source of drinking water, a recent study by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has said. In absolute terms, these cities and towns together …
Filthy water flowed out of the blocked main sewerage pipe in government quarters of Block-M at Top Sherkhania today, causing a lot of inconvenience to residents as water entered their houses. The stagnant sewerage water emitted stink in the whole block and made hellish situation for the residents. These quarter, …
Mumbai: Following the civic body's drive to snap all illegal tap water connections and booster pipes due to water shortage in the city, desperate slum families in Northeast Mumbai are now digging wells to tap the ground water, which is allegedly contaminated with sewage residues. According to health officials of …
Mumbai Every day, Mumbai generates millions of litres of sewage that, if properly treated and recycled, could have helped ease the current water shortage. Practically all of it goes into the Arabian Sea, giving it a stink and a brackish colour, when citizens could have used it for various purposes. …
If we remove all encroachments along the banks of Cooum river and arrest sewage inflow to the river basin, the restoration proj ect will be over by 50 per cent (Above) The site map and conceptual sketch of the proposed plan for the Cooum river restoration project In the first …
The authorities seem to have run out of ideas how to arrest the rampant discharge of sewage waters in the paddy fields behind the District Hospital project at Ambaji
In this recent publication CPCB presents water quality of the Ganga for a decade spanning between 1999-2008. This will be useful for the agencies responsible for restoring and preserving water quality of Ganga and would serve as a model for conducting similar studies in other major rivers in India.
Bacterial population in the coastal water of Orissa, up to 10 km from shoreline along 6 transects were observed during 2005-06 and 2006-07. Total viable counts (TVC), total coliforms (TC), faecal coliforms (FC), faecal streptococci (FS), presumptive E. coli, Shigella, Salmonella, Proteus/Klebsiella, total Vibrio, Vibrio cholera, V. parahaemolyticus and Pseudomonas …
Water and sediment samples were takes near the sewage discharge point on the eastern Red Sea Coast of Jeddah and analyzed for PAH and fecal sterols like coprostanol, cholesterol and cholestanol. PAH were estimated spectrofluorometrically and then further analyzed by GC-MS. Sterols were derivatized by BSTFA into their corresponding trimethyl …
The contaminated Saipem Lake dominated the gram sabha meeting of Navelim Village Panchayat on Sunday with villagers demanding that the Margao Municipal Council stop issuing occupancy certificate to housing projects not connected to the sewerage project. The villagers have threatened to launch an agitation on the NH-17 and initiate legal …
The once Picturesque Saipem lake bordering Margao and Navelim will be finally desilted by the government. PWD Minister, Churchill Alemao has disclosed that the Saipem lake would be desilted by the Water Resources department in the near future. Admitting that the lake has been left contaminated by the rampant discharge …
NEW DELHI: Union Minister of State for Environment and Forest Jairam Ramesh on Thursday criticised the Delhi Government for its failure to treat the sewage that has been flowing into the Yamuna and polluting the river. Speaking at a function organised by the Delhi Government to launch
S Lalitha, nov 5, Bangalore: Respiratory and skin problems are on the rise in HBR Layout in the past 18 months, due to air and water pollution. Sewage from a broken pipeline in storm water drain has mixed with ground water. As a result, residents are scared to use water …
Sewage waters have again come to haunt the authorities in the Commercial capital. This time, the picturesque Dovondem lake at the northern entrance to the city has been left contaminated by the rampant discharge of sewage, so say locals. The locals strongly feel that sewage waters find its way in …
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is likely to modify the proposal of setting up of grey water recycling facility to treat household non-toxic waste water, by asking the builders to develop the space above the treatment plant as garden. A 300-sq ft area must be compulsorily designated for the recycling …
A field study has been taken up in a newly developing area of Jalore city (Rajasthan), a semi-arid region receiving an average normal rainfall to 560 mm. The study of one year duration revealed that water quality of the domestic wells is fast deteriorating. Out of 72 water samples from …
Mumbai The rule will be applicable to all bulk consumers in the city, say BMC officials Five star hotels in Colaba and Churchgate may soon have to buy water that is recycled at sewage water treatment plants set up by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). In a bid to avoid …
Villagers of Bambolim today compelled Goa Medical College (GMC) authorities to repair the overflowing chamber of its Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) as stinking sewage water made its way into the village. Stinking sewage water has been flowing into village for the last couple of days however the authorities woke up …
