Objection to the report of the Gujarat Pollution Control Board by the applicant, Aditya Singh Chauhan on industries polluting Sabarmati river. The report points out that there are 672 industries in the area who are members of common effluent treatment plant (CETP), Ahmedabad Hand Screen Printing Association (AHSPA), but the …
Ahmedabad: The ancient Ravivari on the banks of Sabarmati presents a unique picture-message of the river and environmental imbalance that it now reflects. In a unique initiative, the two-day Sabarmati river basin exhibition conducted by Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT) was taken to riverfront site amid the hustle …
Sabarmati embankment project ignores warnings, precedents Construction of an embankment along the 10-km stretch of the Sabarmati has begun in Ahmedabad despite warnings that it may hamper natural drainage in the city and that its design is inherently flawed. The 8.5-m-high embankment is part of the Sabarmati Riverfront Development Project, …
Ahmedabad : The workshop on Sabarmati river basin in CEPT University kicked off on Monday with eminent architect and urban planner Bernard Kohn addressing a group of students. Kohn pointed out that the project was an opportunity for city to express its civic choices and that project in whichever way …
AHMEDABAD: Whatever grandeur and pomp the coveted Sabarmati riverfront project may promise Amdavadis in the coming years, it now faces an unusual dilemma. Will this multi-crore project remain a mere eyecandy in city
Scientific evidence on climate change leading to drying up of rivers in Gujarat is overwhelming, as it points to significant risks of water scarcity. Experts say, Gujarat needs judicious investments in infrastructures that conserve, enhance and utilize water optimally with a long-term view. When huge investments for water projects like …
Gujarat is a waterstressed state going by the definition of such areas as those having water availability below 1700 cum/ca/annum (cubic meter per capita per year). According to Priyadarshi Shukla, member of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and IIM-A faculty, the Sabarmati river basin has an annual per capita …
on january 11, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation approved a mega pipeline project to dump the city's industrial effluents in the Arabian Sea. Corporation authorities claim the multi-crore project will protect the Sabarmati river from further pollution. Several industrial units have been releasing waste directly into the river that is a …
Vishnubhai Patel was an operator-cum-fitter with Green Environment Services Co-operative Society Ltd. He claims he was sacked in August 2006, a little over a year after exposing the society's fraudulent effluent treatment practices. Society officials, however, say he was relieved off his duties because he stole imported machine parts worth …
construction on Gujarat's ambitious Sabarmati Riverfront Development Project in Ahmedabad, restarted in the second week of March, 2007. The project had been stalled since August 2006, when heavy floods inundated the city. Following this, the National Institute of Hydrology (nih) and Indian Institute of Technology (iit), Roorkee, were asked to …
This case study reports on how the various stakeholders came together to alleviate the problem of effluents discharged by factories in the industrial estates on the eastern periphery of Ahmedabad into the Kharicut canal that flows into the Khari, a tributary of the Sabarmati.
LONG BEFORE Indians run out of land or air, they will run out of water -- unless, of course, they learn to make judicious use of this precious resource. The Mayurakshi river basin in West Bengal and the Sabarmati basin in Gujarat represent some of the serious problems water resource …
