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 …
Bangalore: High fluoride and nitrate levels in drinking water, dismal sanitation with rampant open defecation, high incidence of chikungunya, and a higher risk of fungal and other infections in women. These are some of the key findings of ASHWAS, a survey of household water and sanitation in rural Karnataka, conducted …
The environmental monitoring programme on water quality carried out by the Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment and the Centre for Water Resources Development and Management has thrown light on the water quality parameters of the river basins in the State. The report has given clean chit to …
PRAMOD KUMAR Arsenic contamination in groundwater has been reported from some parts of 28 districts of Uttar Pradesh, 15 districts of Bihar and certain districts of West Bengal in the country. The Union minister of state for water resources Vincent H. Pala in a reply to a question in Parliament …
Environment and Natural Resources Minister Champika Ranawaka yesterday cautioned against an increased trend of ground water, air and environment pollution in limited lands as manifesting due to overuse of earth's resources. He said global warming may spread diseases and there may be increase in mosquitoes, cockroaches, flies and bugs as …
The Haryana State Pollution Control Board has issued a show cause notice to a private company for causing pollution and contaminating an aquifer with toxic discharges in Sarhaul village in the district. Munjal Showa Ltd has been issued the notice under Section-33A of Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act-1974 …
Granite in Haryana a possible source uranium has contaminated milk, wheat, pulses and water in Bathinda district in Punjab, a study by scientists of Amritsar
by B.S. Thaur FOR over two decades the availability of pure drinkable water in rural Punjab has been getting bad to worse. In 1984 53 blocks were declared as dark zones, where water was unfit for human consumption. In 1995 the number of dark zones increased to 84 and then …
In this study, water samples collected from various ground water sources (bore wells, open wells etc) and surface water (rivers, lakes, etc) and treated water in urban and rural areas and analysed for its nitrate contents. Over 500 samples were analysed for nitrate contents so as to find out the …
The Delhi Jal Board has been found woefully short in providing adequate water supply in the city, with its leaking pipe networks reporting a wastage of a huge 40 per cent of water in its distribution channel. The DJB has also fallen short in meeting its own target of 855 …
This is the letter by the Congress of United States, Washington to Chairman & CEO of Dow Chemical Company, Michigan, requesting that Dow ensures that a representative appear in the ongoing legal cases in India regarding Bhopal, that Dow meets the demands of the survivors for medical and economic rehabilitation, …
Letter to Dow Chemical Company from Congress of the United States to immediately take steps towards remediation and redress of the chemical disaster in Bhopal, India.
Workshop blames it on mismanagement of surface and groundwater resources NOTE OF CAUTION: MAWS Department secretary Niranjan Mardi releases a handbook on fluoride and its impact on health at a workshop organised by TWAD Board in Chennai on Tuesday. (From left) Executive director of FR and RDF A.K.Susheela, TWAD Board
By Subhash Chandra N S, Bangalore: The compact fluorescent lamp (CFL), considered as energy saving light is posing as the biggest threat to the Garden City as heaps of broken and discarded lamps are ending up in lake beds, posing danger to the groundwater. As the energy conservation becomes a …
June 4: Climatic conditions in the state are clearly worsening. In fact, environmentalists say that the state capital is the sixth worst polluted city in the country. Alarmingly, the Krishna and Godavari rivers, that contribute around 90 per cent of the state
Anthropogenic pollution of shallow groundwater resources due to industrial activities is becoming a cause of concern in the east coastal belt of the state of Tamil Nadu, India. Integrated hydrogeological, geophysical and tracer studies were carried out in the coastal region encompassing an industrial complex. The objective has been to …
A group of 36 coral islands is being scattered in the Arabian Sea off the western coast of India. On such islands, groundwater is the only source of fresh water for the islanders. The demand for groundwater is increasing every year due to growing population and urbanization. On the other …
