Reply by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in compliance to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order dated January 21, 2024 in the matter of ‘News item titled “Feeling anxious? Toxic air could be to blame” appearing in Times of India dated 10.10.2023’. NGT had directed CPCB to file a …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Friends through its General Secretary Vs Ministry of Water Resources dated 10/01/2020 regarding policy for use of Reverse Osmosis (RO) Technology in the country. The NGT grants Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) two months time as period …
This training resource book will help the "JAL DOOTS' in empowering the village communities to plan and implement various interventions for augmenting ground water resources and managing its demand, including water conservation & rainwater harvesting, water resources assessment, monitoring of water levels and quality and water budgeting at Village/Gram Panchayat …
Asserting that India offers a huge opportunity, Denmark-based pump manufacturer Grundfos on Sunday said it is making efforts to come up with an affordable innovation for the groundwater market in the country. It also said products like solar-powered pumps and water treatment solutions have big potential in India. "India is …
In this arid part of northern Kenya, water can be hard to find, particularly in the dry season. But a center run by the Samburu Girls Foundation - which rescues girls facing early marriage and female genital mutilation - has a new high-tech source of it. Since June, the center, …
This guide aims to help address the challenge of identifying and evaluating appropriate solutions to hydrological hazards, by providing the missing identification and evaluation assistance that those looking for adaptation solutions initially face. More specifically, it focuses on adaptation technologies for building resilience to climate change induced hazards in the …
India and Israel will sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for cooperation in the fields of water conservation, water use efficiency, waste water treatment and river rejuvenation ahead of the President Pranab Mukherjee's visit to Tel Aviv in October. Israel's deputy chief of mission in New Delhi, Dana Kursh, on …
This paper identifies over 50 000 patents filed worldwide in various water-related technologies between 1990 and 2010, distinguishing between those related to availability (supply) and conservation (demand) technologies. Patenting activity is analysed – including inventive activity by country and technology, international diffusion of such water-related technologies, and international collaboration in …
After residents of Savdha Ghera, a resettlement colony in Southwest Delhi, residents of slums in areas under the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) will soon get access to water-dispensing machines — similar to ATMs. The civic agency also plans to install the water-dispensing machines in Sarojini Nagar. An official said …
Made in India: Firm addresses water contamination problem with innovative filters. In India, one of five deaths is attributed to contaminated drinking water. In fact, nearly one million people in the country do not get clean water. Even 66 years after Independence, thousands of people are forced to travel miles …
The Atmospheric Water-Generation Units created by Water-Gen use a "GENius" heat exchanger to chill air and condense water vapour. An Israeli company has developed a new and inexpensive technology that produces drinking water from thin air, an advancement that can address the problem of water scarcity in developing countries such …
Lt-Governor Najeeb Jung has cleared a proposal to set up “pay-and-use” water ATMs in water- starved slums and resettlement colonies of Delhi. Water ATMs operate as cashless vending machines for water. A customer uses a smart card, which can be recharged, to draw water from the kiosk. A customer can …
New Delhi: The film grabbed one’s attention. It showed a billboard spouting water out of thin air. It seemed just the answer to the drought in India’s western regions. Though this was a recent advertising gimmick by the University of Engineering and Technology in Lima and Mayo Peru DraftFCB, can …
The Integrated Processing Development Scheme, recently announced in the Union Budget for the textile sector, will enable development of new textile processing parks and also improve infrastructure, including effluent treatment facilities, in the existing textile processing centres through public private partnerships. With an outlay of Rs. 500 crore for the …
SPACE TECH FINDS MASS USE: Eureka Forbes partners with Water Security Corp & launches low-cost water-purifier as part of its efforts to provide clean water on a large scale. Bringing space technology to the masses is a grand ambition that very few can live up to. But last month, one …
UNW-DPC launched this new book on "Water and the Green Economy: Capacity Development Aspects". The book gives special attention to the needs related to capacity development for water resources management, including water supply and sanitation, in the context of the green economy.
Guwahati, April 19: The city has just acquired two reasons to be more confident about its glass of water. The state public health engineering minister, Gautam Roy, today inaugurated a laboratory of the department of public health engineering to test water-carrying pipes and a few mobile water treatment plants. The …
Modern irrigation is one of the success stories of the 20th century. As the world’s population doubled, irrigated farming expanded from 40 million ha to almost 300 million ha today – a seven-fold increase. This revolution in water technology increased food production through improved crop yields and enabled farmers to …
Waterlife cleanses and purifies drinking water at an economical cost Tapash Talukdar tapash.talukdar@timesgroup.com BY A humble estimate, over 50,000 people in more than 250 villages of West Bengal last year were saved from falling prey to arsenicosis, a contaminated water-borne disease that may cause skin cancer. These villagers had adopted …
Some weeks ago when Amit Biswas was handed a cup of water for the customary rinse-and-spit after a dental procedure he already knew the water’s source. Although his gums were hurting from the extraction of the wisdom molar he remembered what Pritpal Singh, dental surgeon and proprietor of Aradhana Clinic, …
Ramky Enviro Engineers Ltd and GE Power & Water have signed an agreement, to work together and offer environment management solutions, including waste-water treatment and recycling. Under the agreement, the Hyderabad-based Ramky Enviro, part of the Ramky Group, will introduce the concept of mobile water treatment plants in the country. …
