River Pollution

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding the deplorable condition of a water tank, Golconda Fort, Hyderabad, Telangana, 05/06/2025

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 …

Mumbai suburbs gets a landfill site for hazardous waste

function table() { var popurl="image/20060715/33-graph.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=400,height=320,scrollbars=yes") } Kanjurmarg waste landfill site, about 35 km south of Mumbai, is Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai's (mcgm's) latest possession. A serpentine queue of muck-filled trucks through a kachcha road lined with mangroves along the eastern highway that connects Mumbai with Thane is the …

Sumdwellers displaced for a cleaner Yamuna

The scorching June heat does not induce even the mildest show of discomfiture from people in the resettlement colony of Bawana. Located along Delhi's northern border, the area is one of the two sites where people evicted as per the Supreme Court's directive from slums in April 2006, have been …

The roots of eviction

1994: Supreme Court took suo motu cognisance of an article published in Hindustan Times,

Polluted Yangste river may be dead in five years

The Yangtze river, China's largest, is heavily polluted and threatens millions living along its banks, said the state media recently. Environmentalists fear the pollution might turn the Yangtze into a "dead river' within five years. The government has promised to clean up the river, which supplies water to almost 200 …

UK environment regulator pulled up for failing to check pollution

Agovernment environment regulator in the uk has been pulled up for the first time for failing to check the pollution of a river. The Environment Agency (ea) was fined about us $14,000 and ordered to pay about us $2,700 in costs for polluting river Exe's main tributary, the Barle, in …

In court

penalised: A US-based water company, United Utilities Plc, has been prosecuted for the fourth time this year. A UK court asked it to pay about US $18,600 as penalty for discharging 56,000 cubic metres of untreated sewage into the river Mersey in May 2006. The Wirral Magistrate's Court fined the …

Rivers are flowing off course

despite a well-funded river-conservation (clean-up) programme set up by the government over a decade ago, our rivers are in terminal condition. Let's take a look at the progress we have made. An increasing number of clean rivers have changed course to join "polluted' stretches. Government is continuously repeating its mistakes. …

Monitoring of trace metals in Gagan river water at Moradabad

Ten different trace metals in Gagan river water at thirteen different sites in and around Moradabad were estimated by ICP-AES technique and the data was compared with water quality standards prescribed by WHO. River was found to be excessively contaminated for copper, iron, lead concentrations and moderately contaminated for nickel …

Seasonal variation in the aquatic environment of Ram Ganga river at Moradabad: A quantitative study

Ram Ganga river water at 10 different sites at Moradabad were collected and analysed at pre monsoon period and after the onset of monsoon following standard methods of sampling and testing. River water is found to be contaminated with reference to almost all the physico-chemical parameters studied at almost all …

Revival of Mathura's ailing Yamuna river

The quality restoration of any river, especially of the Yamuna at Mathura, a religious center in India, is a very complex and interdisciplinary endeavor. River pollution cannot be minimized merely by diverting the routes of drains carrying wastewaters and/or establishing sewage treatment plants. The required strategy for pollution control should …

CSE study on pollution of Bandi river by textile industries in Pali town

This paper is the result of a study conducted at the request of Sri Kisan Paryavaran Sangarsh Samiti, which is spearheading the cause of the farmers against the pollution of the Bandi river and groundwater in and around the town of Pali, by textile dyeing and printing industries. The Samiti, …

Snippets

• As many as 57 species of fish in Haryana have disappeared over the past four decades as a result of pollution and high siltation of rivers, a study found. • UN's Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination strongly reprimanded the Botswana government over eviction of the Gana and …

In Short

jn-nurm gets a chair: The Union ministry of urban development has appointed Ramesh Ramanathan, founder of Janaagraha, a citizens' movement on participatory democracy, as the honorary national technical advisor and chairperson of Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission. The mission aims to ensure citizens' participation in the integrated development of …

Impact of iron ore mining on suspended sediment response in a tropical catchment in Kudremukh, Western Ghats, India

Available secondary suspended sediment data from the 1980s was analyzed together with new data collected during 2001

Water quality: Bridging the Ganga Action Plan

This article analyses the implementation of the Ganga Action Plan and the various reasons for its failure in the highly polluted villages of Jajmau, clustered near Kanpur city.

Water quality: Unclogging the Khari river

This case study reports on how the various stakeholders came together to alleviate the problem of effluents discharged by factories in the industrial estates on the eastern periphery of Ahmedabad into the Kharicut canal that flows into the Khari, a tributary of the Sabarmati.

Baijal board

the Supreme Court on December 12, 2005, appointed yet another committee to look into controlling the pollution of the river Yamuna in Delhi (see box: Committes flow). The

Dahisar in danger

The deluge that caught Mumbai by surprise on July 26, 2005 has sent warning signals to areas situated along Dahisar river. The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai's (MCGM's) staff in R-north ward of the Dahisar area, its councillors and residents have woken up to the danger, but some proposed solutions …

Get real Mr Baijal

the Supreme Court (sc) recently ordered the Delhi government to study a proposal to install sewage treatment plants (stps) at the outfall of open drains that carry Delhi's sewage to river Yamuna. The order, issued on September 7, 2005, was based on recommendations made by Anil Baijal, secretary, Union ministry …

Physico-chemical analysis of drains in Delhi

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 …

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