Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
The disposal of untreated industrial effluent into receiving water courses has become a major environmental challenge being faced by most of the developing countries. In Pakistan numerous industrial units that dispose their effluent directly into receiving stream without any treatment. This study was, therefor designed to assess the wastewater characteristics …
Environmental Results To Replace Three Of The Existing Criteria Determining State Performance STATES will no longer be able to pay lip service to environment issues. From the next financial year, environment performance will be taken into account while determining the amount of central assistance to states. The inclusion of an …
Water quality data of water bodies in the country forms the basis of management and planning of water pollution control. Considering the above, CPCB envisaged a National Water Monitoring Programme (NWMP) with 1700 water quality monitoring stations, located on all important rivers, lakes including some wells for groundwater studies. The …
The Rani tailayya (pond) is one of the famous water bodies of Chhatarpur district, M.P. The area of this pond is 3.035 ha. Monitoring of physico-chemical and biological analysis of water was carried out monthly during November 2004 to January 2005.
The efficacy of Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) based on activated sludge process employed for treatment of tannery effluent was analyzed for the efficiency to reduce chromium and other contaminants. Physico-chemical parameters of treated effluent were found within permissible levels of statutory limits. A significant reduction in COD and BOD …
This project is being proposed by the authors for the abatement of pollution of sacred waters of river Shipra, surrounding nearly three fourth of Ujjain the town of Madhya Pradesh, as an integrated approach for fruitful solution for abatement of pollution of the river Shipra.
The temporal and spatial distribution of salinity, DO, BOD, turbidity, pH, hardness and dissolved nutrients of surface water collected from different points of Dhamra estuary were measured during February-2007 to January-2008. The pH of water was alkaline throughout the year. The salinity, conductance, hardness increased towards the river mouth as …
Rajesh B. Nair A sewage treatment plant is being planned on the southern side bund of Kanakaneri at Thattanchavady in Puducherry. PUDUCHERRY: The Kanakaneri, one of the oldest waterbodies in the town, is once again in the news. Environmental activists have come out against the government's decision to establish a …
Mumbai Six months after the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) found that the ongoing renovation of the Wankhede Stadium taking pollutants in the air and groundwater higher than the permissible limits in the locality, a second inspection shows that most of the polluting parameters are effectively under control. This was …
The mysterious death of about hundreds of fish in the Cubbon Park pond on Wednesday has been attributed to pollution caused by sewage water seeping into the pond. The sewage water had triggered a severe depletion of oxygen level, choking the fish to death. The fish died due to dirty …
Prashant Rupera | TNN Vadodara/Anand: In a move aimed to save the Ganges from pollution and give its aquatic life a breather, a system developed by a researcher of Sardar Patel University (SPU) will be installed at Mathura. S N Jha, a technical assistant at SPU
The strong interaction of the steel industry and the environment is related to the large volumes of matter that are handled by the Steel Industry. The steel plant is a huge logistical hub, where iron is not the major stream in terms of mass. Water, carbon dioxide (CO2) and steam …
Feb. 4: The apathy of the Centre and the Delhi government towards improving the condition of Yamuna flowing just in the middle of the expanded national capital irked the Supreme Court on Thursday so much that it described the river a "mere ganda nullah (a dirty drain)". As amicus curiae, …
Having an ISO-14001 Environmental Management Systems (EMS) will help and enhance a firm's economic performance and at the same time will improve its environmental performance. The benefits of ISO-14001 lie in cost savings through energy consumption, raw material input, waste management, environmental impact reversal as well as an improved public …
Amongst all the greenhouse gases (GHG) present in the atmosphere methane has assumed considerable significance. Atmospheric concentration of methane has almost doubled after industrial revolution. It contributes to 20% of total GHG effect. In industrial countries, 15% of total GHG contribution comes as methane emission and it is expected to …