Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Vishaw stream gasps for breath amid mining pollution" appearing in Greater Kashmir dated 16.12.2024 dated 23/04/2025. In the original application, registered suo motu, the tribunal is examining the grievance of a deteriorating trout population in the Vishaw …
The objective of the study was to determine how data on water source quality affect assessments of progress towards the 2015 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target on access to safe drinking-water.
Urbanisation, influx of pilgrims, fertilizer-intensive farming, and indiscriminate sand-mining have impacted on the water quality of Manimala river, a major source of drinking water in Kottayam and Pathanamthitta districts. A report published in Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, an international journal devoted to progress in the use of monitoring data in …
Total coliform count exceeds permissible limits: PCB Investigations by the State Pollution Control Board (PCB) have revealed heavy pollution of wells at select locations in Ernakulam district. The monitoring agency found that the total coliform (bacteria) count exceeded the permissible limits at various sites. The wells identified for the water …
A village in northern Jordan depends on polluted water from a spring, as four German and Arab students discovered. Their final report shows how matters could be improved.
A study conducted by the Tropical Institute of Ecological Sciences has attributed the widespread incidence of jaundice in the district to a high level of faecal pollution present in drinking water. The study led by Dr. Punnen Kurian, Ebin Varghese, Munnu Das and Anu Ramanan had conducted various analytical tests …
Coral reefs are in severe decline. Infections by the human pathogen Serratia marcescens have contributed to precipitous losses in the common Caribbean elkhorn coral, Acropora palmata, culminating in its listing under the United States Endangered Species Act. During a 2003 outbreak of this coral disease, called acroporid serratiosis (APS), a …
Under the environmental impact studies of the sewerage scheme, assessment of the seasonal water quality of the sources around the oxidation ponds and few pumping stations were monitored in Trichirrappalli Sewerage Scheme, Tamil Nadu.
March 13: Thanks to the apathy of the endowments department, devasthanam boards and local civic bodies, pilgrims take the ritual dips in highly polluted water at pilgrim centres and temple towns in the state. Laboratory tests by the AP Pollution Control Board reveal that the water from the holy bathing …
THERE is a good chance the leafy vegetables that make it to your salad bowls were irrigated using untreated or partially treated sewage. Each day an estimated 20,000 million litres of sewage is used for irrigation—five times what Delhi generates each day—but more than half of it is untreated. Faecal …
Approximately two billion people depend on groundwater for their drinking water on groundwater for their drinking water because it is often easy to obtain and considered to be microbiologically safe. However, there is growing consensus in the scientific literature that groundwater can become contaminated with pathogenic virus or bacteria and …
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.
KOCHI: The single most health hazard for people living in the suburbs and surrounding villages of Kochi is the disposal of sewage in public places. There is hardly any attempt on the part of the authorities to take action against unauthorised septic tank cleaning agencies. As a result such agencies …
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) today said that it has taken suo motu cognizance of the media report, alleging that out of 53 samples of drinking water taken from various areas in Delhi by a non-government organization (NGO), only two were found potable. The commission has issued notices to …
Shocked by the quality of drinking water supplied in several parts of Delhi, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notices to the Chief Secretary and the Delhi Jal Board chairman giving them a month to explain their stand. Underlining that the right to have clean drinking water is …
Given the popularity of swimming for recreation and sport, it is remarkable that we are only in the early stages of understanding swimming pool chemistry, human exposure(s), and potential health risks. This is partly due to the complexity of swimming pool water chemistry, which increases with transformations that water undergoes …
Hyderabad, April 26: Hyderabadis are in danger of being affected by waterborne diseases as more areas in the twin cities are receiving contaminated water, thanks to the apathy of the water board. The Institute of Preventive Medicine, which found only 10 water samples contaminated with E.coli in February, has recently …
