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 …
Grana y Montero SA is seeking Peru’s backing for a $150 million sewage-treatment project to reduce pollution that is tainting waters in the world’s highest navigable lake, the state news agency Andina reported. The biggest construction company in Peru will request a 30-year contract to build and operate at least …
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday directed the authorities concerned to demolish illegal structures on the banks of rivers around the capital and ensure free flow of water by preventing pollution. The directive was given during a regular weekly cabinet meeting at Bangladesh Secretariat with Sheikh Hasina in the chair. …
Following a series of water-polluting incidents across the country, experts are calling for the creation of emergency response solutions and stricter supervision of tap water safety. Fuyang, Zhejiang province, suspended the county's supply of tap water on Sunday after the city's tap water source, the Fuchun River, was contaminated by …
In an attempt to mobilise large number of people to tidy up the capital in the run-up to the Saarc summit, Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) is all set to organise a mass cleaning campaign on June 5. The metropolis said that an estimated 100,000 residents of all ages will join …
Brazil will not make good on its commitment to clean up Rio de Janeiro’s sewage-filled Guanabara Bay by the 2016 Olympic Games, state officials acknowledged in a letter seen Saturday. In the May 7 letter, addressed to Sports Minister Aldo Rebelo, Carlos Francisco Portinho, Rio’s state environment secretary, asks for …
NAGPUR: With a view to prevent throwing of garbage in Nag river, especially near Reshimbagh Chowk by lawns and marriage halls, Mayor Anil Sole on Thursday asked the civic administration to install CCTV cameras to catch the culprits polluting the city's signature river. Sole was inspecting the river on the …
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged all concerned to take joint initiatives in saving the Buriganga river from pollution. The river is in a very bad shape as all kinds of sewage are being dumped into it through the drainage system at 135 points, she said. To save the river, …
"Ma Ganga aur Benares se mera rishta purana hai," BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi said, pledging his intent to restore the Ganga to its original glory while campaigning in Varanasi. Plans to clean up the 2,500 km holy river too date back to older times -the first Ganga Action …
With robust annual sales growth of nearly 30 percent, China's environmental protection industry products may reach 570 billion yuan ($91.3 billion) in total value by 2015, according to an official report released on Tuesday. The fourth national survey on the industry, co-authored by experts from the Environmental Protection Ministry, the …
City managers have finally decided to stop talking and start cleaning the polluted waters of the natural streams of Islamabad - and do that the natural way. Top officials of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) have given the task to the experts of the National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC), who …
China has included an amendment to the Law on the Prevention and Control of Water Pollution in its future lawmaking plan, according to a senior legislative official. China mulls amending water pollution law Pricing for a blue revolution China mulls amending water pollution law Water pollution fight intensifies "In order …
Germany will almost double the funding to clean waters in the polluted Spree River that flow past Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office. The work planned by government-owned Lausitzer und Mitteldeutsche Bergbau-Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH will rise to as much as 15 million euros ($21 million) this year from 9 million euros in 2013, …
The National Green Tribunal on Tuesday ordered the inspection of nearly 1,000 industries in UP for polluting the Ganga by releasing untreated effluents into its waters. The principal bench of the tribunal has directed Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), UP Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) and National Ganga River Basin Authority …
The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has nearly covered the total 18km stretch of Pili River by the end of fourth day of its Nag-Pili rivers cleaning campaign. During this period, slope correction and widening works were completed along 3km. The Nag River cleaning campaign too has picked up momentum. Mayor …
Maintaining the enthusiasm shown during last year's Save Nag River campaign, Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) kicked-off its Nag-Pili rivers cleaning campaign from the origin of Pili river at Gorewada lake on Thursday morning. The civic body faces a tough task this year, since the Pili river requires correction of slope …
There are 764 grossly polluting industries in the five States on the main stem of the Ganga and its tributaries which are marring the water quality in the rivers, the Centre and its Ministry of Environment & Forests have said while expressing hope that their Gangetic Dolphin Conservation Plan together …
A campaign of cleaning the Dhobikhola stream has begun from Saturday in connection with the ongoing programme of cleaning the different rivers and streams in the Kathmandu Valley. Nepal Civil Servants Organisation started the Dhobikhola cleaning campaign as a part of marking its Silver Jubilee. The organization has taken the …
The state government has submitted an affidavit to the Supreme Court that raps the Sree Padmanabhaswamy authorities for their failure to evict the encroachers at the Pathrakulam inside the complex and also the delay in cleaning the temple ponds. The affidavit is in response to the report submitted by Amicus …
The Clean Bagmati Campaign is in its 48th week and during this period the Bagmati river and its surroundings have undergone a transformation that was hard to imagine for many of the Kathmandu denizens. Thanks to all those campaign participants, who volunteered to clean the Bagmati banks and dredge up …
Mumbai: Every Indian has a fundamental right to live in a pollution-fee environment and at the same time every citizen has a fundamental duty to protect and conserve nature, the Bombay high court has said. Hearing a public interest litigation to save Godavari river in Nashik—considered to be sacred, a …
