Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …
Manufacturers and wastewater municipalities that treat and discharge wastewater are concerned with regulatory compliance and controlling costs. Most facilities must comply with regulations, such as the US Environmental Protection Agency's (USEPA) Clean Water Act, and optimize their wastewater treatment processes. To help achieve both goals, many facilities use total organic …
In potable water treatment, the volume of granular activated carbon (GAC) per filter is a major issue, both in commercial agreements and in filter design and operation. Once exhausted, the GAC is typically regenerated by thermal reactivation.
Workers at Chilean copper-gold mine port facilities will soon be quenching their thirst with drinking water from an innovative new seawater reverse osmosis (RO) system supplied by Koch Membrane Systems (KMS).
Ranesh Nair, Isher J Ahluwalia : Water availability per capita in India is reaching critical levels, and with a much faster pace of urbanisation expected in the coming decades, treatment of waste water for returning to rivers and reuse in industry assumes great importance. Navi Mumbai has shown the way. …
Bacterial isolates from water and sediment samples from freshwater, estuarine and marine regions were tested for their growth in the presence of different concentrations of arsenic. Despite the generation times being longer in case of all bacterial isolates tested in nutrient broth with 200 ppm Arsenite (As3+), many of them …
Despite the overwhelming advantages of mechanic villages, their heavy metal pollution of soil due to poor waste management is causing serious ecological and public health concerns. Analytical results show that heavy metal concentrations (mgkg-1) above background levels in the upper 100 cm soil profiles of the Okigwe, the Orji and …
This review presents removal of three major anionic contaminants (arsenic, phosphate and fluoride) in water by adsorption/precipitation method using both synthetic and natural materials. A discussion is also made on interfering co-radicals (silicate, sulphate, nitrate, bicarbonate, chloride, etc.)
The revised National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP) Guidelines 2009-2012 issued by Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission, Department of Drinking Water Supply has shifted the focus from source development and installation of water supply system for providing drinking water supply to rural household to focus on development of village …
Worldwide, cities and townships are facing many complex wastewater treatment issues. Although centralized sewers are seen as a preferred solution to wastewater problems, areas with centralized sewers discharding to surface waters, have been identified as source of many pollution problems. Lack of sufficient, even basic treatment is a risk to …
The continued high cost of fresh water and environmental concerns are causing more industrial plants to explore wastewater reuse options. Many facilities are finding it can be more economical to reuse wastewater from specific process areas or from sources outside the petroleum refining or petrochemical facility that it is to …
Two billion tons of human and animal waste and industrial pollution are dumped into waterways every day around the world, according to reports released in Nairobi, Kenya, for the 17th annual World Water Day
Opinion divided on the use of plastic component, especially as the High Court has said there should be natural restoration Months after the High Court called for the revival of water bodies based on a public interest litigation (PIL), the Delhi government in a meeting on Thursday approved a Rs …
UDHAGAMANDALAM: Brigadier S.S. Jadhav, Commandant, MRC, looking at a treatment plant he commissioned at Wellington on Tuesday. Udhagamandalam: A long-felt need of a large number of people in the Wellington Cantonment area near Coonoor was fulfilled on Tuesday with the commissioning of a water treatment plant. Comprising seven wards, the …
Urinary excretion of estrogens, including endogenously produced estrogens, estrogens from dietary sources, and estrogens from prescription medications and veterinary pharmaceuticals, can result in surface water contamination and subsequent human exposure via contaminated drinking water. Caldwell et al. predicted average estrogen exposures through drinking water based on estimated levels of per …
This new UN report presents challenges of unregulated wastewater discharged into rivers and seas. Calls for transforming wastewater into clean and economically attractive resource & details strategies that focus on sustainable water management. The world is facing a global water quality crisis. Continuing population growth and urbanisation, rapid industralisation, and …
Water may be the most abused natural resource but for the innovative mind it can be the proverbial spring of money, say Anirvan Ghosh & Ravi Teja Sharma Despite being the most precious commodity, most of us take water for granted, at least until our taps run dry during summers. …
Release of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) from a chemical plant in West Virginia contaminated drinking water in several water districts, but use of granular activated-carbon filtration in two water districts reduced PFOA concentrations to levels below the limit of detection. Bartell et al. (p. 222) measured serum PFOA concentrations in up …
