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 …
This paper describes the pollution status of fourteen major drains, namely Najafgarh drain, Magazine Road, Sweeper Colony, Khyber Pass, Metcalf House, Kudesia Bagh, Civil Mill, Sen Nursing Home, Drain No. 14, Barapulla, Maharani Bagh, Kalkaji, Okhla and Shahdara drain entering into the river Yamuna at Delhi, studied during the year …
Water has pivotal role for the survivality of the mankind. The hydrobiological cycle stores about 0.6% of water as ground water. The ground water level increase by percolation which is extensively used for biodrinking and irrigation. The pesticide in the chemical element causes artificial and natural ground water pollution. Subarnapur …
Once known for its vibrant economy, Kanpur today has the ignominy of being ranked among the five most polluted cities in the country. Garbage festers all over the city; Kanpur's residents breathe a noxious mix of particulate matter, sulphur dioxide, oxides of nitrogen, carbon monoxide, lead and ammonia gas, and …
These are the guidelines issued by the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board for environment friendly immersion of idols. Ganesh Idols are immersed in water bodies. Such water bodies include rivers, lakes, ponds, estuaries, open coastal beaches, wells etc. Consequent pollution of such water bodies has been a matter of concern and …
The European Parliamentary Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety on July 13, 2005, passed a European Commission (ec) proposal for a directive to regulate the management and storage of mining waste. The proposal seeks rules to prevent water and soil pollution from storage of waste in tailings ponds, …
All through June 2005, people living around the Union Carbide factory site in Bhopal found chemical dust blowing through the air, accompanied by bad odours. The haze came from the factory site where, 21 years after the Bhopal gas leak, state authorities have finally embarked on a cleanup. This cleanup …
In Rajasthan state particularly, textile mills represent an important economic sector. Pali district in Rajasthan has got largest number of textile industries in the State i.e.989 units, mostly engaged in cotton and synthetic textile printing and dyeing. These industries liberate a variety of chemicals, dyes, acids and alkalis besides other …
Tests carried out by the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) after this year's third incident of large-scale fish death in Bangalore's lakes have prompted official agencies to attribute them to sewage ingress. But researchers believe this doesn't explain tonnes of fish dying at one stroke. Five tonnes of fish …
The moef (Union ministry of environment and forests) is a gross under-performer, and way off its targets for the tenth Five Year Plan. This is what the Planning Commission has concluded, in its mid-term appraisal of the ministry’s work “Disappointing” and “inadequate” are the themes that run through the commission’s …
Water deaths: Over 75 people, mostly children, have died after drinking polluted water in the past one-and-a-half months in Pakistan's Sindh province. Another 6,600 have been admitted to various hospitals, media reports said. "The entire summer is ahead but local municipal authorities have not taken any steps. Contaminated water is …
Detergents, their environment concerns and the regulations to control them have evolved side by side in the developed world. Detergents were developed during the Second World War. They became popular in the late 1950s and the first regulation to control their environmental impact was enacted in 1961 in Germany. So …
Most advertisements project detergents as the ultimate dirt beaters. While detergents are facilitators, most cleaning action is actually done by water, the liquid solvent that not only dissolves dirt, but also provides a medium to suspend and carry it away from the surface. The transition from traditional natural cleaners such …
Toxic scare: Residents of Hyderabad city in Pakistan's Sindh province might soon be exposed to several water-borne diseases. The city's irrigation authorities recently declared that toxic water from a local lake will be released into the Indus river, which supplies water to the city. The controversy is not new to …
The erstwhile rulers of Udaipur developed an interconnected chain of artificial lakes, diverting the overflow of one lake to another. They also made strict rules and regulations to keep these lakes clean and healthy. Udaipur came to be known as the city of lakes. "No construction was allowed in the …
Looking at the verdant landscape, you'd agree with the spirited voices chanting, " Brikshyo bina jeevan nahi, brikshyo aamaro jeevan bhai '. Around 100 kinds of trees, shrubs, herbs and climbers thrive here and major species include sal, piashal, asana, bandhana, amla, mahua, kendu and satabari. This has also revived …
A weed that spreads rapidly through ponds, lakes and rivers could provide a cheap yet effective way of removing arsenic from drinking water. A research team at UK's De Montfort University, led by Parvez Haris, has found a powder made from the dried roots of water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) removed …
In a violent uprising against industrial pollution, thousands of farmers in eastern China's Huaxi village clashed with nearly 3,000 police personnel before dawn on April 10, 2005, when the latter tried to remove blockades that had closed down chemical plants in the vicinity. Unconfirmed reports said two elderly protestors were …
a household arsenic filter has been developed under the Nepal Water Project, which not only removes the carcinogenic chemical but also pathogens, iron, turbidity and odour. The project is being implemented jointly by the us -based Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit), the Nepal-based non-governmental organisation Environment and Public Health Organisation …
The first case asking the Supreme Court to intervene in making the Yamuna in Delhi a cleaner river was filed by environmental activist M C Mehta in 1985. Subsequently: 1992: Sureshwar D Sinha, chairperson of a Delhi-based non-governmental organisation called Paani Morcha, filed a writ petition pleading for enforcement of …
