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 …
Manoj Anand IN WHAT MAY help the civil society in overcoming the water-related problems, the Defence Research Laboratory has created a unique water treatment plant that can bring down the excessive arsenic, floride and iron content of the ground water to an acceptable limit. The director of the laboratory Mr …
Groundwater contaminated with arsenic imposes a big challenge to human health worldwide. Using natural compounds to subvert the detrimental effects of arsenic represents an attractive strategy. The transcription factor nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) is a critical regulator of the cellular antioxidant response and xenobiotic metabolism. Recently, activation …
Availability of potable water under emergency situations like flood will soon be a reality. For researchers of the Geo-Environment Division of the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) have come up with a water filter for such purposes. The water filter, called NEERI-ZAR and designed by Mr Subhash Andey, Mr …
As demand for freshwater soars, planetary supplies are becoming unpredictable. Existing technologies could avert a global water crisis, but they must be implemented soon.
The raw water quality available in India varies significantly, resulting in modifications to the conventional water treatment scheme consisting of aeration, chemical coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation, filtration and disinfection. The backwash water and sludge generation from water treatment plants are of environment concern in terms of disposal. Therefore, optimization of chemical …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has announced closure of its water supply programme initiated by it in Azad Jammu and Kashmir in response to the October 2005 earthquake. According to a handout released here on Thursday, the agency had rehabilitated and reconstructed over 40 rural water supply …
CHANDIGARH: The Haryana Government on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding with the Hyderabad-based Naandi Foundation to implement a pilot project on community safe drinking water systems in select villages in the State in a phased manner. The MoU was signed by Haryana Commissioner and Secretary, Public Works Department (Water …
By Prabuddh Banerjee Despite tall claims by producers of water purifiers, most of them fail to ensure safe drinking water for the household. Our drinking water is supposed to deliver essential nutrients and minerals needed for healthy life. It should help maintain acidic levels in our body and natural streams …
K. Venkateshwarlu HYDERABAD: All but reduced to cesspools, restoration of polluted, filth-ridden lakes, ponds and wells has always been a challenging, time-consuming and expensive process. Not anymore, as a novel German technique promises to make the clean-up process a little bit easy. A German group, Lavaris Lake, has come up …
Nature knows better how to keep the water sources clean and nourishing. Our traditions, also could maintain their water sources for the past 10,000 years. Water quality problems and water scarcity- both are due to pollution of air, caused by increase in the use of fossil fuels. This produces rain …
It uses most efficient technology with low power Provisions for use in areas without electrification Product display: Features of a product being explained by a company executive at a stall in the exhibition in Chennai on Sunday. CHENNAI: Under the Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission, the Union Ministry of …
Bindu Shajan Perappadan Bid to ensure that commercial establishments own up their responsibility for conserving the resourc "Take the steps in a phased manner to ensure 100% compliance' Sir Ganga Ram Hospital has already installed a water treatment plant NEW DELHI: It could soon become mandatory for large hospitals and …
treating drinking tap water with chlorine makes it bacteria-free. But its by-products may increase the risk of abnormalities among newborns, says a recent study. Researchers studied data on 400,000 infants in Taiwan and by products of chlorine in the water separately from 2001-03. Using these two sets of data, the …
Mining waste jams water treatment plants lakhs of people in Tiswadi and Ponda talukas of North Goa are facing water shortage because mining activities in the catchment area of Opa Water Treatment Plant in Ponda are hampering the plant
The study has been carried out in two phases. In the first phase, a model of pipe network is developed based on EPANET (Version 2.0) in such a way that the modeled flow data for various zonal overhead reservoirs takes almost equal fill up times by adjusting the flow control …
The state government will set up laboratories soon at all district headquarters in the state for water testing to provide safe drinking water to people after it was found that most diseases are caused by polluted drinking water. These laboratories will be funded by IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development) …
Recycling involves a separate plumbing system or a number of stages of filtration and microbial digestion to make water fit for washing or flushing toilets, writes Deepti Adlakha Gaining importance: Recycling of grey water has become a matter of priority with compact systems available. Every drop counts. This does not …
Water has always been an issue in California. But drought conditions, not to mention worries about continued supplies of clean water, are turning water into a growth industry in California and elsewhere. Big companies like General Electric, Siemens and Veolia Environnement of France have ambitious plans to bring water to …
keeping in mind Bangalore's growing water demand, the city's water supply and sewerage board is working on a plan to treat waste water and supply it. "The plan is under design and expected to be operational by 2011. We will call for expression of interest and solicit public opinion soon. …
