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 …
According to a Central Groundwater Board report as many as 650 cities and towns lie along polluted rivers, which contaminate groundwater About half of India's groundwater is contaminated, according to a Central Groundwater Board report. As many as 276 districts have high levels of fluoride, 387 districts report nitrates above …
Fishery Dept says probe to be held, Pollution Control Dept not aware Hundreds of fish have died in local nullahs at Battal Ballian, Dudhar and Barrian in Udhampur district due to excessive water pollution allegedly caused due to discharge from some units at local Battal Ballian Industrial Area. However, the …
While Punjab is increasingly increasing using canal water for drinking on account of high toxicity in the ground water, it will now pump out this water for irrigation purposes. The new tubewell connections – 1.25 lakh - will not just deplete the state’s already depleted water table, but water pumped …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Doaba Paryavaran Samiti Vs. State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 17/05/2016 regarding groundwater pollution by industries in the Districts of Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar, Samli, Meerut, Bagpath and Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. A report would be submitted to the Tribunal of people …
Hydraulic fracturing frequently occurs on agricultural land. Yet the extent of sorption, transformation, and interactions among the numerous organic frac fluid and oil and gas wastewater constituents upon environmental release is hardly known. Thus, this study aims to advance our current understanding of processes that control the environmental fate and …
Delivering an important judgement in favour of the residents of Bhanpur Khanti, the National Green Tribunal on Tuesday ordered the Bhopal Municipal Corporation to restrict power supply to the borewells and handpumps within 1.5 kilometer of Bhanpur area and also paste the notice on each one of them saying that …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Sampuram Singh & Others Vs. State of Punjab & Others dated 06/05/2016 regarding groundwater pollution in Punjab. The Tribunal in its Order reacted sharply againt the absence of Respondents which included the State of Punjab and noted that "these matters …
According to the new rules, buffer zones should be strictly maintained around landfill sites. The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has modified the waste management rules 2000, in the wake of the increasing pollution levels and waste mismanagement. The MoEFCC, on April 8, 2016, through a gazette …
New research from The University of Texas at Arlington demonstrates that groundwater quality changes alongside the expansion of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing but also suggests that some potentially hazardous effects may dissipate over time. The new research, published today in the journal Science of the Total Environment in the …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Southern Zone, Chennai) in the matter of SUO MOTO Vs. District Collector Sivagamgai and Others dated 26/04/2016 regarding drinking water pollution in Karaikudi Municipality, Tamil Nadu. In the complaint it is stated that in spite of regulatory orders issued by the District Collector in …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Sanjay Kumar Vs. State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 22/04/2016 regarding discharge of effluents by Coca Cola's Hapur plant in Uttar Pradesh into a nearby pond. The Applicant’s case is that the untreated effluents are being released by the …
Gurgaon: The Central Ground Water Authority (CGWA), in the affidavit filed on Tuesday before the National Green Tribunal (NGT), has partially agreed to the allegation in a petition that the groundwater in Aravalis is being polluted by untreated waste lying near Bandhwari waste treatment plant on Gurgaon-Faridabad Road. In its …
Gurgaon: The Central Ground Water Authority will submit a report on the quality of groundwater near the defunct Bandhwari municipal waste treatment plant before the National Green Tribunal on Tuesday. The tribunal had sought the report after a city-based environmentalist filed a petition in May last year alleging that leachate …
BEIJING – More than 80 percent of China’s underground water drawn from shallow wells used by farms, factories and mostly rural households is unsafe for drinking because of pollution, a government report says. The Water Resources Ministry study posted on its website Tuesday analyzed samples drawn in January from 2,103 …
The permissible limit for nitrates is 40 milligrams a litre, but in most areas, the presence of nitrates ranges between 45 and 100 mg/ litre. Ground water in many parts of Bengaluru urban and rural may be contaminated with carcinogenic nitrates, warns the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB). A senior …
An "ice wall" around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has been turned on, Japanese authorities say. The wall will restrict the movement of groundwater, stopping it from becoming contaminated from the leaking facility which suffered a nuclear disaster in 2011. The project aims to freeze the soil underneath the …
Ahmedabad: Industrial activities, coupled with unchecked pollution, would seriously affect the groundwater quality in Ahmedabad district, states a study by Mona Khakhar, an associate professor with CEPT University. Khakhar shared the findings in a conference on Wednesday. In her study titled 'Assessing Groundwater Vulnerability to Contamination: A Case Study of …
Nuclear regulators gave their approval Wednesday to start freezing soil around damaged reactor buildings at the disaster-hit Fukushima No. 1 power plant to prevent groundwater from entering the highly contaminated facilities. The Nuclear Regulation Authority told Tokyo Electric Power Co., or Tepco, that it could activate the east side coolant-filled …
Fluoride content high in areas depending on groundwater. Hyderabad: Rapid depletion of ground water levels in Hyderabad, resulting in borewells being dug deeper and deeper, is posing a fluoride risk. Chaemicl analysis conducted by the state groundwater department has shown that the fluoride content in water is above the permissible …
The tribunal is hearing a case on hazardous pollution caused by illegal e-waste disposal units located in NCR. The petition has been filed by non-profit organisation Law for Justice. The National Green Tribunal Monday directed the district magistrate of Ghaziabad to notify it about steps being taken to curb illegal …
