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 …
Market for water purifiers is booming, but no regulations check quality and claims. Down To Earth expresses concern and questions claims of the water purifier industry in this latest special report. Market for water purifiers booms, but consumers cannot be sure of quality in absence of regulations.
Manoj Lodhiwal is the head salesperson at a household appliance store in south Delhi. Every morning as the storeowner performs puja, he examines how and where to display products. “The facade must remain stacked with home water purifiers; they are the hottest items,” Lodhiwal said. His store is in Mohan …
Japan will provide Taka 113 crore as grant to setup a mobile saline water treatment plant for ensuring safe drinking water to four lakh people daily at 11 Aila affected upazilas in three south western costal districts Khulna, Satkhira and Bagherhat. Japan International Cooperation Service (JICS) will provide Taka 113 …
The report Overview of Greywater Reuse: the Potential of Greywater Systems to Aid Sustainable Water Management analyzes how, as a key strategy that reduces demand, greywater reuse can improve the resilience of water systems to the impacts of climate change. It also serves as a relatively secure or drought-resistant source …
HYDERABAD: Promoters of IVRCL and Kemira Oyj of Finland have agreed to form a joint venture to manufacture water treatment chemicals at Visakhapatnam. The unit to be set up with an estimated $10 million investment is expected to be operational in six to eight months. Kemira, IVRCL and its construction …
Anantapur, Oct. 9: The poor maintenance of outdated drinking water purification plants posed a threat to residents in Anantapur city. The summer storage tank (SS Tank) at Gooty road is providing 9 million litres per day but consumers often complain of reddish and contaminated water with gems. According to the …
BENGALURU residents look forward to December 2011, when the new water treatment plant at T K Halli would deliver 500 million litres of potable water every day. This would increase each person’s daily water allowance in the city by 25 litres. Bengaluru Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) fast-tracked the …
The enough intake of water is necessary for our health. The doctors advise us to drink pure water but the water is polluted these days by many reasons. There are harmful chemical, carbonic combination , germs and bacteria which have been mixed into the water. This harmful elements can be …
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu government has provided Rs 100 crore budgetary support to Metro Water for the current financial year in helping it buy water from Chennai Water Desalination Limited (CWDL) and till now Minjur desalination plant has supplied about 3,815 MLD of water, according to Metro Water managing director Shiv …
The Pune-based National Institute of Virology has identified Pureit as one of the two water purifiers which meets the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) standard for virus removal. The institute conducted a test on eight popular domestic water purification systems on protection of consumers against virus. Six of the …
Jorhat, Aug. 31: A Rs 55.04-crore project will supply purified water of the Brahmaputra to Jorhat homes and wash away fears of arsenic contamination in every gulp. DoNER minister Bijoy K. Handique had announced the project after he took charge of the ministry in May last year. The plan was …
Viveat Susan Pinto / Mumbai August 30, 2010, 0:22 IST The fight between HUL and Eureka Forbes is a square one in the water storage market. The Pallonji group-controlled Eureka Forbes had a solo run in the Rs 1,500-crore water purification market for long. Then came fast moving consumer goods …
United States has provided $1.5 million of funding to UN's World Health Organisation (WHO) agency to help it establish an additional 40 treatment centres to fight water-borne diseases in the 'high risk' flood-affected areas of Pakistan. The grant brings to 55 the number of US-funded treatment centres in the hardest …
In this research paper, PATH hopes to identify, adapt and develop water treatment devices and business models for water treatment devices for the economically weaker sections of society. A key to good health is safe and clean drinking water. This however, is not always available to the economically weaker sections. …
India first needs to innovate the solution itself, and then focus on the product Arvind Singhal / New Delhi July 29, 2010, 0:03 IST Last week, Kapil Sibal unveiled the prototype of a Rs 1,500 tablet pc aimed at providing an ultra-low-cost solution targeted towards making computer literacy accessible to …
G Saravanan | ENS DEJECTED over the State gover nment's unfulfilled promise, fishermen living in 15 hamlets near Kattupalli have planned the show black flags to Chief Minister M Karunanidhi during his visit to launch the desalination plant at Minjur on July 31. "We have lost our livelihood after the …
NEW DELHI: A study of leading storage water purifier brands available in the Capital has revealed that none of them adheres to international standards of providing clean drinking water. Releasing the study,
