Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
Over 100,000 people representing almost all walks of life participated in a campaign organised to clean the Bagmati river in the Capital on Saturday. The participants also formed a 56 kilometre human chain to mark the 100th weekly event of the Clean Bagmati Campaign on Saturday morning. The programme was …
This report focuses on the urban water management challenges facing cities across OECD countries, and explores both national and local policy responses with respect to water-risk exposure, the state of urban infrastructures and dynamics, and institutional and governance architectures. The analyses focus on four mutually dependent dimensions – finance, innovation, …
Over one lakh people joined hands to form a human chain on Saturday to mark the 100th week of the Bagmati Cleaning Mega Campaign. Thousands of people began trickling in early in the morning to form the chain over a 28-km-stretch from Sundarijal to Chobhar in the capital, along the …
It turns out that the dispersant that was used to help the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico may be more toxic to deep corals than the oil itself. Scientists have discovered the cold-water corals could very well suffer for years to come. About five million …
About 420 gallons of oil spilled into the Mississippi River, forcing authorities to close part of the waterway after a ship collided with vessel offloading crude in southern Louisiana on Monday, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The bulk carrier Privocean broke free from its mooring near Convent at around 4 …
THE Bonga 2011 oil spill incident from an offshore oil field operated by Shell Nigeria Production and Exploration Company (SNEPCO) affected 168,000 victims in 350 communities in Delta and Bayelsa. The Paramount Ruler of Olobia Community Koluama in Southern Ijaw Local Council of Bayelsa Chief Howells Levi, said on Monday …
Agra: Union minister and local MP Ram Shankar Katheria has sought the Centre's assistance to prevent sewage discharge into the Yamuna from Mantola nullah, one of the major sewer lines of the city that is closely located to two world heritage sites: Taj Mahal and Agra Fort. In a letter …
NASHIK: The National Green Tribunal, Western Zone, Pune on Tuesday gave an ultimatum of May 28 to the Trimbak Municipal Council to separate the Godavari water from sewage and install a biomethanation plant. A bench of Justice VR Kingaonkar and judicial member and expert Ajay Deshpande on Tuesday heard the …
KOLHAPUR: The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has issued a notice to city-based Rajaram cooperative sugar factory for allegedly discharging effluents through an underground pipeline directly into the Panchganga river. The environment watchdog has asked the factory to reply within seven days failing which the MPCB has warned of further …
GURGAON: The Fortis hospital in Gurgaon has seen a string of unusual patients over the past fortnight - its own nurses. Some of them even had to be admitted in the hospital's ICU. About 50 members of Fortis Memorial Research Institute's (FMRI) nursing staff have fallen sick because of what …
Red-flagging the rising incidence of food and water contamination in India ahead of the World Health Day on Monday, the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said there is need for strict enforcement of the Food Safety and Standards Act and strengthening of the food testing laboratory infrastructure and skills. …
Archit Watts Tribune News Service Muktsar, April 6 A survey report of the Health Department stated that above 42 per cent of the water samples collected from Muktsar, last year, were not potable. Of the total 354 water samples collected, 149 failed the test. Some of these samples were of …
Integrated Rural Technology Centre study in Palakkad Faecal contamination of drinking water in Palakkad district is reaching alarming levels, a study by the Mundur-based Integrated Rural Technology Centre (IRTC) says. The rise in temperature is yet to seriously affect water availability, the study, proposed by the Kerala Sasthra Sahitya Parishad …
Offering a temporary reprieve to the polluting industries located on the banks of the Ganga, the government has extended the deadline for installing real-time effluent discharge meters till June 30. But the industries have time only till this week to tell the government whether they indeed intend to do so, …
IPH Dept puts up signboards against use of water for drinking Hand pumps, installed by the Irrigation and Public Health (IPH) Department in Bangana block of Una district, are pumping out excessive contents of iron in water. Consequently, the department has started putting up signboards cautioning people not to use …
TWO Chinese men have been arrested for allegedly discharging hazardous acid waste into the Grand Canal, a World Heritage site, according to local procurators. The suspects were accused of releasing the waste into the Suzhou section of the canal, the world's oldest and longest artificial waterway, since October, 2013, the …
A whopping 24 water samples taken from across schools in the district have been reported to be highly contaminated as per statistics provided by the Health Department. Putting the lives of thousands of students studying in primary schools at risk, the health and water supply departments watch on as students …
In a study submitted to the environment ministry last month, the Central Pollution Control Board has identified Yamuna and Hindon as the most polluted among 13 rivers in UP. CPCB has identified polluted stretches in 13 rivers, affecting 37 towns and cities of the state. According to the report, pollution …
The JICA funded project for monitoring ground water contamination is underway at the Cuncolim and Bethora industrial estates. Officials of Asahi Geo Survey and Goa State Pollution Control Board completed the 4th survey of studying ground water contamination at Bethora and Cuncolim Industrial Estate. Spread over a period of three …
On paper, any district would be envious of Sonbhadra, the district which has footprints of all of the world's five economic powerhouses. China, Japan, the US, UK, and erstwhile USSR have built power plants there. While the prosperity is not reflected in the condition of its population—joblessness, poverty, starvation and …
