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 …
Only 4 industrial set-ups have permission to undertake activity An RTI query has brought out that only four dyeing units out of about 400 have a no-objection certificate (NOC) from the Central Ground Water Authority (CGWA) to extract groundwater. As for the dyeing units extracting groundwater illegally, more than 400 …
Politician turned activist Suresh Mehta Monday alleged the Gujarat government has tweaked water purity standards, as a result of which more than four crore people in the state are forced to drink contaminated water. Citing a report of Gujarat Water Supply and Sewerage Board (GWSSB), Mehta claimed that 10 out …
China's top legislature will send four teams of lawmakers to inspect enforcement of the water pollution control law in eight provincial-level regions across the country. The inspectors convened their first plenary meeting here Monday. The inspection is a concrete action taken by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress …
Hearing on a petition regarding plastic waste and draining of sewer water in the Ganga river at Har ki Paidi in Haridwa, the High Court of Uttarakhand has directed the municipal corporation of Haridwar to submit a progress report by April 28. The next hearing on this petition will be …
Antibiotic resistance appears to be spreading in the environment. A new study has found a large number of bacteria which are resistant to commonly used antibiotics in stretches of river Ganga. Residues of antibiotics reach water bodies through waste discharged from households, drug manufacturing units, hospitals and poultry industry where …
A report of groundwater pollution in Luna village accessed by an environment NGO has once again pointed to the alarming rate of groundwater contamination in the industrial belt in Padra in Vadodara. The report accessed through RTI found that that the Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) level in groundwater was an …
Kenya is prioritizing the construction of reservoirs in order to reverse water scarcity, officials said on Wednesday. Joseph Irungu, principal secretary of the Ministry of Water and Sanitation told an environmental forum in Nairobi that in Kenya per capita availability of water currently stands at 452 cubic meters compared to …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News item published in “The Times of India” Authored by Paras Singh titled “Ignoring NGT orders, Mayapuri ‘graveyard’ spews toxic fumes” And News item published in "The Times of India" Authored by Paras Singh Titled "In factory setting, Mayapuri’s scraping …
The National Green Tribunal has directed the Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Boards to display the water quality of the Ganga at all strategic locations on a monthly basis, to indicate whether the river water is fit for drinking and bathing. A Bench, headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh …
Over the past three years, Hubei Xingfa Chemicals Group Co Ltd has shut down about one-third of its production capacity and four chemical waste discharge flues along the Yangtze River. The moves are in line with government calls for improving ecological protection and cleaning up China's "mother river", which has …
More than 100 schools in Malaysia have been closed after the dumping of toxic waste into a river caused hundreds of people to fall ill, including many children, authorities said. A lorry is believed to have dumped the waste in southern Johor state last week, sending hazardous fumes across a …
Beyond the shattered lives, the harsh consequences of erosion, pollution and flooding are very costly to Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal and Togo. A new World Bank study reveals in economic terms the cost of the damage in these four countries. Titled "The Cost of Coastal Zone Degradation in West Africa", …
Guinea's fast-growing bauxite mining industry is threatening the livelihoods of thousands of Guineans. Mining has destroyed ancestral farmlands, damaged water sources, and coated homes and trees in dust. Last week, 13 rural communities in Guinea made public a complaint against the World Bank's private lending arm over a loan to …
Dirty river run-off is the single greatest impediment to the recovery of the Great Barrier Reef, an Australian research revealed on Tuesday. In the near future, the natural wonder's survival will depend on how well it recovers from catastrophic events such as tropical cyclones, disease outbreaks and coral bleaching -- …
Balloons and balloon fragments are the deadliest kinds of marine pollution for seabirds, killing almost one in five birds that ingest the soft plastic, according to a new study published in the journal Scientific Reports. The research, conducted by scientists at the University of Tasmania, examined the cause of death …
MUMBAI: As many as five of the 42 water quality monitoring units on west-flowing rivers in the state have recorded ‘bad’ and ‘bad to very bad’ levels in 2017-18 compared to only one in 2016-17, found an annual survey by the state pollution control board. A majority of these monitored …
Enormous concrete storage units that Shell wants to abandon in the North Sea contain radioactive waste which campaigners fear will eventually leach into the surrounding water, The Independent has learned. European authorities are considering Shell’s application for an exemption to legislation requiring companies to return the marine environment to its …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Court on its own Motion Vs State of Himachal Pradesh & Others dated 11/03/2019 regarding pollution of river Ashwani Khad which was supplying drinking water to Shimla city in the State of Himachal Pradesh. The matter was taken up to …
Jodhpur: Cracking a whip on the state government, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the state government to pay an interim compensation of Rs 30 crore to the State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) holding the government responsible for all the environmental devastation caused to Luni river by the textile …
Tanzania has given Acacia Mining Plc up to March 30 to stop waste water pollution at North Mara gold mine or face a shutdown, its mining minister said. Doto Biteko, said he had issued the deadline to stop what he said was seepage of contaminated water from a mining waste …
