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 …
The new nutrient-based fertiliser subsidy policy provides implicit incentives to farmers to test soil samples regularly and get crop-wise recommended doses of nutrients, and offers prospective benefits from the agro-environmental management point of view. A study of six villages in the lower Bhavani Basin in Tamil Nadu reveals that despite …
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 Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL) factory at Bhopal, abandoned after the world’s worst industrial disaster that took place on December 3, 1984, is still heavily contaminated with a range of persistent pollutants. From this study it can be concluded that even after 25 years the residents of the area …
Sevagram ashram in Maharashtra where Mahatma Gandhi spent many years of his life is threatened by pollution. Effluents from a pig iron plant are flowing in the drain passing through the ashram complex in Wardha district and have contaminated the groundwater. Villagers have stopped using the well in the ashram, …
Gokul Chandrasekar | ENS THE piped water you get at home could be laced with toxins if a proposal by five municipalities and a town panchayat to set up a compost yard in Kuthambakkam village comes through. For, the project site falls within the catchment area of the Chembarambakkam Lake, …
IT is a 30-km walk. Not an event for a fund raising, but the walk is to win their lands, which is also their livelihood, acquired by the SIPCOT. Villagers of Thervoy Kandigai on Sunday took out a padayatra to highlight SIPCOT
TIRUPATTUR: Member of Legislative Assembly of Tirupattur T.K. Raja has requested Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin to extend the Hogenakkal drinking water scheme to various parts of Vellore district . In a letter addressed to Mr. Stalin, he said that groundwater in areas such as Kandhili, Natrampalli, Alangayam, Pernambut and …
S M Arun ENS Air and water there are so polluted that you could consider yourself lucky if you escape with minor ailments, say residents RURAL areas are always less polluted than their urban cousins, isn
This paper seeks to map the extent to which civil society actors champion environmental justice in an industrial risk society. It examines the role of civil society actors in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, in being able to perceive industrial risk and push local concerns in development processes. The paper draws on qualitative …
Effluent resulting due to various processes from tanning industries may lead to groundwater pollution when they are disposed off without proper treatment. This study was carried out with the objective of studying the impact of effluent let out by these industries on groundwater quality in Chromepet area of Chennai, Tamil …
Trivalent chromium occurs naturally in rocks, soil and plants. Cr (VI) is produced when Cr (III) is heated in the presence of mineral bases. Cr (VI) compounds are emitted into the air, water and soil by different industries.
Groundwater supplies 60 per cent of the water for irrigation in India and 85 per cent of rural water supply relies upon groundwater. Accordingly, poverty reduction, rural development and sustainable food production in India rely upon the long-term availability of groundwater in sufficient quantity and quality. Efficient groundwater resource management …
A water supply scheme to supply safe water to several areas including Alanthudawa and Minniya farmer colonies in the Kalpitiya Divisional Secretariat was commissioned by Minister Dinesh Gunawardene recently. It fulfilled a long felt need in view of a health hazard created by excessive use of agro- chemicals and synthetic …
Great effort continues to focus on ecosystem restoration and reduction of nutrient inputs thought to be responsible, in part, for declines in estuary habitats worldwide. The ability of environmental policy to address restoration is limited, in part, by uncertainty in the relationships between costly restoration and benefits. Here, we present …
With planning permission for Britain's biggest dairy at Nocton about to be re-submitted, The Ecologist travels to California to examine intensive milk production - and finds factory farms, conflict, intimidation, pesticides, pollution and small-scale farmers driven out of business.
VELLORE: Pennathur town panchayat councillor A.M. Venkatesan complained to the Tamil Nadu Assembly Petitions Committee, which visited the Government Vellore Medical College Hospital (GVMCH) in Adukkamparai on Tuesday, that liquid effluents discharged by the hospital were let into an irrigation tank in Sabdalipuram leading to contamination of groundwater in the …
S. Ramesh People of Erode district depend on groundwater as local bodies not able to meet demand Government should look into the issue and initiate action PHOTO: M. GOVARTHAN Health hazard:The groundwater at Cauvery Nagar in Erode is polluted heavily following unmindful discharge of effluents into the vacant lands by …
This documents consists of comments and suggestions received by the Ministry of Environment and Forests on NEERI, NGRI and IICT reports related to decontamination and remediation of the Union Carbide plant site in Bhopal. Comments/suggestions received on the NEERI, NGRI and IICT reports related to Bhopal gas leak disaster.
