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 …
Dense population, high industrial growth, increasing pollutant loads and a lack of wastewater infrastructure in Dhaka have jointly created a serious threat to the city's sustainability. The industrial wastes caused severe degradation of the watersheds. 60% of the total pollution load comes from around 7,000 industrial units located within the …
Northrop Grumman Corp on Thursday reached a settlement with U.S. environmental regulators that requires the aerospace giant to spend about $21 million to clean up groundwater pollution dating from World War II manufacturing through the 1980s. Northrop operated three of 62 "source properties" that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) …
K. Raju All the 2,150 residents of K. Ramanathapuram village in Dindigul district are now getting good quality drinking water, thanks to effective community participation and the implementation of the Central government
This article discusses the various components that impact effective water quality management in rural India. Experience suggests that redesigning of data management programme at village, district and at national level, upgradation of district-level laboratories and addressing technical, legal and institutional components should become the first steps in achieving effective water-quality …
Lawyers for New York City are trying to convince a jury in a federal trial that Exxon Mobil knew that an additive that it used in gasoline would contaminate groundwater. The trial, which began on Tuesday before Judge Shira A. Scheindlin of United States District Court in Manhattan, is one …
At least 80 percent people in rural areas of the district are drinking arsenic contaminant water. For this reason a panic have been created among the people in four upazilas of the district. According to Public Health Engineering Department (PHED), Chandpur office sources high percentage of arsenic contaminants have been …
PRAMOD KUMAR There are total 479 districts in India where problem of groundwater contamination has been reported in isolated pockets. This is giving sleepless nights to the officials of the central ground water authority. According to the Centre's Water Quality Assessment Authority, Uttar Pradesh tops the list where contamination in …
Ten million residents of Dhaka city are exposed to environmental hazards and this situation is worsening day by day. In a city already overloaded with population, more people from all over the country are coming with desperate bid to settle. The influx of population has resulted in not only high …
K.V. Kurmanath Hyderabad, Aug. 4 Worried over decreasing groundwater levels and presence of nitrates and heavy metals, the Andhra Pradesh Government has initiated a study to assess the quality and quantity of groundwater in the Hussainsagar catchment area. The study would suggest measures to plug the sources of pollution and …
This publication documents the findings of the second phase of the study, which was completed in May 2006. The aim of this phase was to accomplish a wider, continental, coverage of river/lake/ groundwater basins (i.e., building upon the first phase), and expanding the network of researchers. Regional groups of researchers …
Increased incidences of groundwater nitrate and its impact on human health especially in infants as blue baby disease, has initiated to determine groundwater nitrate concentration in Chandrapur city of Maharashtra state. Groundwater sampling was carried out at 18 locations from dug wells and bore wells from the study area.
Describing the environment as the most neglected cause in the country over the years, the business leaders demanded the government to build central effluent treatment plants (CETP) on a priority basis at different industrial clusters. They also demanded long-term loans with low interest and withdrawal of taxes on chemicals used …
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
