Sewage Pollution

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding the deplorable condition of a water tank, Golconda Fort, Hyderabad, Telangana, 05/06/2025

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 …

Coliform MPN counts of municipal raw sewage and sewage treatment plant in relation to the water of Buckingham Canal at Kalpakkam

Water being a good solvent, is prone to physico chemical and microbial contamination. Municipal sewage, both treated and untreated is often released into the receiving water bodies, which influence water quality.

High ammonia content in Yamuna

the second week of November saw south and central Delhi reeling under a severe water crisis because of high levels of ammonia in the Yamuna at the city's water intake point. It led to a reduction in water supply from two of its water treatment plants

Delhi to get interceptor sewers

The Delhi government has cleared a Rs 1,950-crore project to tap drains carrying sewage from colonies not connected to the city sewers. Interceptor sewers to be used for tapping is seen by the government as a temporary solution to the problem of untreated water reaching the Yamuna. The government plans …

Excreta's economy: a true experience

Every society must understand how the excreta it produces is managed. It teaches us many things about water, about waste, about technologies to clean, economics and politics: of who is subsidised to defecate in our societies. But, most importantly, it teaches us humility. We know so little about our own …

Physico-chemical analysis of drains in Delhi

This paper describes the pollution status of fourteen major drains, namely Najafgarh drain, Magazine Road, Sweeper Colony, Khyber Pass, Metcalf House, Kudesia Bagh, Civil Mill, Sen Nursing Home, Drain No. 14, Barapulla, Maharani Bagh, Kalkaji, Okhla and Shahdara drain entering into the river Yamuna at Delhi, studied during the year …

What to do?

function built() { var popurl="image/20050430/31.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=280,height=360,scrollbars=yes") } Seventeen sewage treatment plants, 10 common effluent treatment plants, drains, pipes, low cost toilets, and thousands displaced in the name of river cleaning. But little impact. Why? That is what needs to be understood so that future policy can be built learning from …

The sums of treatment

Firstly, pollution regulators only work on the basis of three parameters

Investigation

This investigation into Delhi's underbelly began with a visit to a sewage treatment plant located in the eastern part of the city, situated between a highly congested and relatively poorer part of the metropolis. The officials at the plant

Why is the Yamuna so polluted?

function all() { var popurl="image/20050430/28-graph.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=370,height=390,scrollbars=yes") } Could it be that Delhi's clean-up infrastructure is an effect of mindlessness? Consider: while it is broadly accepted that domestic sewage contributes between 80-90 per cent of the pollution load, and industrial effluents the rest, nobody has any clue on how much waste …

Water quality assessment studies with reference to total coliform bacterial population: The Pondicherry coastal waters

Considering the increasing urban population and the resulting urban liquid waste, an attempt has been made to ascertain the quality of the Pondicherry coastal water. Four sampling stations-two on the 1 fathom line and two on the 5 fathom line were fixed. The results revealed that the total coliform bacterial …

Concept paper on Taj Protection Mission

The concept paper describes the problems of the city of Agra and the anxeityy of the Hon'ble Supreme Court articulated in the various orders passed in connection with the Writ Petition (Civil) No. 13381/84-M.C. Mehta Vs. Union of India & Others. The paper also goes on to describe the various …

Sources and accumulation of butyltin compounds in Ganges River Dolphin, Platanista gangetica

Concentrations of butyltin compounds (mono-, di-, and tri-butyltin) were determined in dolphin (Platanista gangetica), fish, invertebrates and sediment collected from the River Ganges, India, in order to understand the contamination levels, sources, and potential for biomagnification in freshwater food chains. Total butyltin concentration in dolphin tissues was up to 2000 …

Fish mortality in Bangalore lakes, India

Large-scale episodal mortality among the freshwater fishes of certain lakes of Bangalore City, Karnataka State, India occurred in June 1995. We conducted an intensive study of the Sankey Lake which is situated in Sadashiva Nagar of Bangalore city where fish mortality occurred on quite a large scale during June - …

Quantitative assessment of worldwide contamination of air, water and soils by trace metals

Calculated loading rates of trace metals into the three environmental compartments demonstrate that human activities now have major impacts on the global and regional cycles of most of the trace elements. There is significant contamination of freshwater resources and an accelerating accumulation of toxic metals in the human food chain.

Save The Yamuna: What Steps Are Needed To Revive The Frothing Yamuna?

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