Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …
Expressing concern over the poor quality of drinking water at Northern Railway stations and their platforms, Delhi High Court today sought collection of samples from different divisions and a report on the issue. "At present we will only look into the aspect whether the people living in railway colonies and …
The countries of Central and Eastern Europe faced the challenges of becoming EU Member States. In the water sector, the environment and water quality requirements of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) dominate water resources planning and management. Many see this as a surrogate for IWRM, although IWRM has a …
Conservationists and angling organisations have joined together in a legal challenge, accusing the government of failing to protect some of England’s “most precious rivers” from agricultural pollution. WWF UK, the Angling Trust and Fish Legal say they have been granted permission by the high court to pursue their challenge to …
The state’s first purified water ATM will be installed soon at Jharmajri village in the industrial hub of Baddi. A Mohali firm will install the machine. The machine will help provide purified and chilled water to people at a nominal cost of Re 1 for 300 ml, Rs 2 for …
Junior Water Prize on Tuesday night for inventing a filter through which toxic heavy metals from electronic waste can be removed from water. At the Grand Hotel in central Stockholm, Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden presented the prize to Perry Alagappan, who won out of the group of 29 finalists. …
Different from last year's World Cup, an event which attracted widespread protests and was criticized by slow stadium construction, organizers of the 2016 Rio Olympics that start within year from now are facing new tricky issues, the water pollution. The issue that has most attracted the world's attention so far …
Researchers say mercury and other chemicals that were found in Lake Powell have moved downstream and are now being found in fish and aquatic plants in the Grand Canyon. The Arizona Daily Sun reports (http://bit.ly/1JjPj1D) no consumption advisories have been issued for fish in the study area that was researched …
Only about 29 percent of Indonesia’s 250 million people have access to clean tap water, while the rest of the country relies on ground water and other resources for which water quality is not guaranteed, an expert says. Indonesian Water Institute chairman Fisdaus Ali has said that this figure is …
Livestockfarmers in Nyagatare District have got a timely shot in the arm following the launch of a piped water project last week. The project, developed under the water and sanitation (WATSAN) programme, is a joint venture between the district and the Water and Sanitation Corporation (WASAC) aimed at increasing access …
The lead-in-water scare has spread to another primary school where a sample was found to contain levels of the heavy metal more than 21 times over the safe limit. St Francis of Assisi's Caritas School on Wai Chi Street, Shek Kip Mei, said a sample taken from a water fountain …
This UNEP publication presents a critical analysis of successful cases for regulating wastewater treatment and management in six countries - Argentina, Austria, Finland, Jordan, Singapore and South Africa. It reviews procedures and processes in the implementation of wastewater legislation and may be useful for other countries in addressing the global …
Varanasi: Union Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Uma Bharti has said efforts are on to clean the River Ganga by 2018. Bharti told media here on Sunday that a technical committee is preparing a report on the quality of water in the Ganga and will submit …
Many areas of the Greater Tel Aviv Dan region are still suffering from soil and groundwater contamination whose source is industrial activity that took place decades ago and threatens drinking-water sources and buildings, a new report from the Water Authority states. Considerable preventive and rehabilitative measures will be needed in …
Chinese authorities warned that cyanide levels in the waters around the Tianjin Port explosion site had risen to as much as 277 times acceptable levels although they declared that the city's drinking water was safe. The local government, under pressure from China's leaders in Beijing to improve industrial safety, also …
Although the Grand Canyon segment of the Colorado River features one of the most remote ecosystems in the United States, it is not immune to exposure from toxic chemicals such as mercury according to newly published research in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. The study, led by the U.S. Geological Survey, …
The former president of a chemical company charged in the contamination of West Virginia's biggest source of drinking water pleaded guilty on Wednesday to three federal pollution counts. Gary Southern, 53, was the last Freedom Industries Inc executive charged in the Elk River spill in January 2014. The leak of …
Pretoria — Government has already met the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals of reducing the number of people who don't have access to basic water supply by half. According to figures released by the Department of Water and Sanitation, an estimated 95.2% of South Africans have received clean drinking water …
The authorities have warned against swimming in Gozo's Xlendi bay amid fears the water may be contaminated The environmental health directorate has issued a warning that, until further notice, swimming in Xlendi bay in Gozo could be unsafe due to possible contamination of the water. The source of the contamination …
More than 300,000 homes in Lancashire will continue boiling water for several days after tests showed traces of a microbial parasite in the mains supply. United Utilities issued a warning on 6 August after traces of cryptosporidium were found at the Franklaw water treatment works near Preston. The boiling water …
Twenty-five contaminated water sources in South Africa, Ghana and Bangladesh have been cleansed more than 99 percent by a bug-killing book in its first field trials. Its papers successfully killed bacteria with promising effect to filter a person's water supply for four years. The result, presented at the 250th national …
