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 …
Chandrawal and Wazirabad water treatment plants were forced to curtail production by 50 per cent due to high levels of pollution in the Yamuna, with ammonia levels rising to 1.2 ppm, against the permissible limit of 0.2 ppm. According to the Delhi Jal Board (DJB), the release of untreated waste …
NDMC areas and parts of south and north Delhi may get less water on Tuesday as a spike in the level of dissolved ammonia forced Delhi Jal Board to cut back on water production at its Wazirabad and Chandrawal plants on Monday. The contamination occurred upstream in Haryana due to …
Noted water conservationist Dr Rajendra Singh has urged the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) to undertake urgent measures to curb water pollution in Godavari river. “Godavari river is getting polluted on a large scale, as the industrial effluents as well as domestic waste are being released into the river. Sewage is …
HIGH mercury levels are poising a big threat to public health in some regions as people eat fish from mercury contaminated river waters to become exposed to various diseases. A study titled "Mercury in Human and Fresh Water Fish of Bangladesh" conducted by an NGO in the recent past jointly …
West Virginia officials on Monday lifted a ban on drinking or bathing with tap water in some areas of the state hit by a chemical spill that affected hundreds of thousands of people for five days, Governor Earl Ray Tomblin said. Consumers in cleared areas should flush out their systems …
Fish population has been found to be very low during a survey currently in progress in 13 major creeks of Sindh. So far, 147 species of marine fauna have been identified. The survey is being carried out in Issaro, Wadi Kuddi, Dabbo, Mal, Pittaini, Hajamro, Chaan, Richhal, Jang River, Chann, …
High level of mercury was detected in human body and fresh water fishes in different parts of the country, revealed a recent study that has not yet been published. According to World Health Organisation, mercury is considered to be one of the top ten chemicals or group of chemicals of …
Chile's supreme court has ruled in favor of local fishermen who say Endesa Chile's Bocamina coal-fired facility kills marine life and pollutes ocean water, but it said halting its operations was a decision for environmental authorities. An appeals court in December halted operations at the 350 megawatt Bocamina II plant …
China will look into establishing a nation-wide trading system for pollution permits as part of efforts to use market mechanisms to help clean up its environment, the country's top environment official said. In remarks published on the website of the Ministry of Environmental Protection (www.mep.gov.cn) on Friday, minister Zhou Shengxian …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Sureshbhai Keshavbhai Waghvankar & Ors. Vs. State of Gujarat & Ors. dated 10/01/2014 regarding water pollution caused on account of immersion of plaster of paris made idols. Original Source: http://www.greentribunal.gov.in/orderinpdf/1111-2013(MApp)_10Jan2014.pdf
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Directs TNPCB to ensure their closure The National Green Tribunal, Southern Bench, on Wednesday ordered the immediate closure of 252 packaged drinking water units across Tamil Nadu as they came under the ‘overexploited area’ category classified by the PWD. It also directed the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) to …
ALLAHABAD: For a cleaner Ganga and Yamuna at Magh Mela commencing from January 14, 2014, officials of Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) have decided to start monitoring quality of water in the rivers at five or six different spots including Rasoolabad, Salori downstream, Sangam, Sangam downstream and Saraswati Ghat …
A drinking water crisis looks imminent in the state as members of the Tamil Nadu packaged drinking water manufacturers on Wednesday declared an indefinite strike in protest against the National Green Tribunal's order directing the pollution control board to close down 252 water units. The units were found to be …
The National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) on Wednesday collected water samples from Jayanti and Dudhali nullahs and Panchganga river. A three-member team also visited the environment department of Shivaji University, Kolhapur (SUK) and Zilla Parishad (ZP). R K Patil, official of Kolhapur Municipal Corporation's (KMC) drainage department, said a …
The World Bank has approved a $500 million credit for the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation (RWSS) project in four low income states -- UP, Bihar, Jharkhand and Assam. The project, directed towards improving piped water supply and sanitation services through decentralised delivery systems will be confined to the east …
The district surveillance unit of the health department had taken note of accumulation of nullah water in the lake of the Kanpur zoo which is a breeding ground for the various bacterial diseases. The district epidemiologist (medical scientist) has been entrusted the responsibility of preparing a report regarding the prevailing …
China approved the construction of more than 100 million tonnes of new coal production capacity in 2013 - six times more than a year earlier and equal to 10 percent of U.S. annual usage - flying in the face of plans to tackle choking air pollution. The scale of the …
The National Green Tribunal, Chennai has stopped the Maramalai Nagar municipality from laying a storm water drain connecting several neighbourhoods to Potheri Lake, citing possible environmental pollution by a university campus. The direction comes on a petition by M K Dhandapani, president of the Nandhivaram-Guduvancherry panchayat union. He said the …
A detailed environmental assessment by IIT-Madras found that despite the cleanup by Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) in north Chennai, the volume of oil contaminating drinking water has not decreased significantly. Since July 2013, 947 barrels of oil-water have been pumped out in Tondiarpet. The study follows complaints from residents …
