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 …
GHAZIABAD: First it was chromium, now it is arsenic and fluoride that are in excess in groundwater in Ghaziabad, going by an NGO's report. After hexavalent chromium levels were found to be far in excess of the maximum limit of 0.5mg per litre in various parts of the city in …
The city’s existing waste disposal site in Sector 38 poses a threat to surface and groundwater aquifers due to generation and percolation of leachate in the subsoil, according to a recent study. “The disposal site is over 30-year-old and has no provision of leachate and gas collecting systems. Hence, it …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Karnail Singh & Ors. Vs. CPCB & Ors. dated 23/02/2015 regarding discharging of the trade effluents in Dhabi Nala with the consequent contamination of the underground water resources.
The district magistrates and five Senior Superintendents of Police in western Uttar Pradesh have been fined by the National Green Tribunal for their repeated failure to reply to its notice on polluted rivers causing cancer among villagers. The officials of Meerut, Saharanpur, Shamli, Ghaziabad, Muzaffarnagar and Baghpat have been fined …
GHAZIABAD: Alarmed over the high level of groundwater and air pollution in the city, residents of Ghaziabad on Thursday submitted a memorandum to the NCR Planning Board, giving it a deadline of March 10 to act and threatening to launch an agitation if their problems were not addressed. In a …
City-based NGO Paryavaran Vahini has claimed tests commissioned by it in 2011 had established at least three areas - in both the trans- and sis- Hindon parts of the city - that had alarmingly high amounts of carcinogenic hexavalent chromium in the groundwater. Vijaypal Baghel, convenor of the NGO, claimed …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Krishan Kant Singh V/s. M/s. Hindustan Coca Cola Beverages Pvt. Ltd., Mehdiganj, Rajatalab, Varanasi And M.C. Mehta V/s. Union of India & Ors. And Other Connected Matters regarding groundwater depletion and pollution by industries in Uttar Pradesh especially by M/s. …
Once forced to drink arsenic- contaminated ground water, residents of a remote hamlet in West Bengal near Indo-Bangla border are now purifying water from ponds and selling packaged safe drinking water to neighbouring villages. Using a new innovative technology from France, village co-operative society Madhusudankati Samabay Krishi Unnayan Samity has …
Arsenic is known to be one of the causative factors of gall bladder cancer in Bihar. However, a recent research by city's Mahavir Cancer Sansthan (MCS), which has been sent to a journal for publication, says arsenic has been found in tissues of patients suffering from other cancers as well. …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Court on its own motion & Others Vs. State of Punjab & Others dated 02/02/2015 regarding impact of pesticides as well as the contamination of underground water on health.
The present study was carried out to assess the suitability of Meham Block ground water for domestic and agriculture purpose. Total fifty seven samples of ground water (well, tube well and hand pump) from nineteen villages were collected and analysed according, APHA. Groundwater assessment for domestic purposed was determined by …
Goa state pollution control board (GSPCB) has directed municipalities to implement the Municipal Solid Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2000, as they have failed to treat and dispose of waste. GSPCB chairman Jose Manual Noronha told TOI that on inspection, the board found no proper implementation of MSW in municipal …
Missive to State government to scrap tribunal Bill Resentment is brewing among residents of Plachimada over the Union Home Ministry’s missive to the State government demanding scrapping of the Plachimada Coca Cola Victims Relief and Compensation Claims Special Tribunal Bill, terming it unconstitutional. Plachimada Samara Samithi chairman Vilayodi Vengopal termed …
The Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA) told the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Monday that it had not found any carcinogenic substance in groundwater samples taken from villages in and around Chhapraula, where a high number of cancer cases have been reported. Though the Lucknow-based Indian Institute of Toxicology …
A U.S. federal court has ruled for the first time that manure from livestock facilities can be regulated as solid waste, a decision hailed by environmentalists as opening the door to potential legal challenges against facilities across the country. A large dairy in Washington state, Cow Palace Dairy, polluted ground …
For decades, villagers in a rural area of Guangxi have seen their rice saplings wilt shortly after planting and found soft bones a common ailment. According to court records and interviews, local residents strongly suspect that the source of the malaise in Sanhe village is cadmium poisoning. Since the mid-1950s, …
Fracking companies will be legally bound to reveal the chemicals used to blast gas out of every well they drill and to better monitor for groundwater pollution, under concessions made by the government in parliament. But the Labour party, which proposed the changes, said many flaws remained and ministers remain …
India's groundwater dependence and the crises of depletion and contamination of groundwater resources require the development of a robust groundwater dependence framework. Understanding the challenges of developing a groundwater governance framework for regions of extensive groundwater development versus relatively less-developed areas of groundwater development is important. The groundwater typology is …
Availability of clean water and adequate sanitation facilities are of prime importance for limiting diarrheal diseases. We examined the spatial information on the groundwater quality and sanitation facilities of a village in southern India using Geographic Information System (GIS) tools. Place of residence, position of wells and latrines were mapped …
Order of the United States District Court Eastern District of Washington in the matter of Community Association for the Restoration of the Environment, Inc., a Washington Non-Profit Corporation and Center for Food Safety, Inc., a Washingtoon, D.C. non-profit Corporation Vs Cow Palace, LLC, a Washington Limited Liability Company & et …
