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 …
There’s nothing more appealing than a refreshing dip in a swimming pool on a summer’s day. But be warned. Some health experts are becoming concerned that swimming in chlorinated pools may be at the root of some serious health problems. Chlorine has been widely used to disinfect our water supply …
China's first green bond has raised $300 million after pricing last week, as the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases seeks new funding sources to help raise about $1.6 trillion over five years to help fix its environmental problems. China is scrambling to lift environmental standards in a country where …
Clear Water Revival’s new ecological biofilters aim to transform the pond and pool market So Hot The Roads Melted ... 98F Britain Bakes ... Wimbledon’s Hottest Ever Day ... That was how some headlines marked thermometers touching 37C in July. Many will have headed straight for the nearest pool for …
Thirty cholera cases have been reported in Naivasha subcounty in two months, area medical officer of health Dr Oren Ombiro has said. He said most patients have been treated and discharged and the last three patients, a woman and two children, are admitted at the Naivasha Subcounty Referral Hospital. "The …
More than 120,000 households across Ethiopia are expected to benefit from significant new investment in water, wastewater and sanitation infrastructure. Three leading European development finance institutions today confirmed more than €81 million of support for the upgrading programme to improve water services around the country by the Ministry of Water, …
The Acting General Manager of the Ebonyi Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency, Sunday Opoke, has said that over 3,000 water-boreholes are currently dilapidated in the state. Mr. Opoke said this in the Ebonyi State capital, Abakaliki, noting that the situation has made it difficult for rural dwellers to access …
Abeokuta — Also more than six hundred million people over the world lack access to clean water. Sobowale, who spoke in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital yesterday during an inauguration of a water project built by his company revealed that since 2007, the "Water of Life Programme", a pet programme …
A major reservoir supplying drinking water to Beijing and many other cities in northern China has been found to contain heavy metal pollutants at levels far above safe standards, according to a new study by mainland Chinese scientists. Levels of lead in the Danjiangkou reservoir were found to be 20 …
If a lone study is to be believed, the stream which cuts through Mingora, Swat is fed 75 tonnes of waste on a daily basis. While locals cannot corroborate, they firmly believe this is no longer a ‘fresh’ water source. Toti Khan, who runs a hotel atop the stream, recalls …
THE Environmental Management Agency EMA says a health time bomb is ticking in Harare where thousands of people living in sprouting settlements doted around the city are drinking human waste contaminated water. EMA education and publicity manager Steady Kangata told NewZimbabwe.com that some of the worst affected settlements include Hopely …
Cholera cases are rapidly increasing in South Sudan's capital, Juba, as the cost of clean water skyrockets amid a worsening economic crisis. 33 people have died in Juba alone including seven children under five, with 700 more people infected with the deadly and contagious disease. Zlatko Gegic, Country Director for …
A LOCAL government official was sacked and seven others punished after a company in northeast China was found to have illegally discharged sandy water that polluted the tap water supply in Lanzhou in March, the Ministry of Environmental Protection said yesterday. The tap water began smelling of ammonia in the …
The fracking industry must be compelled to provide far more detailed information to regulators if the public is to be accurately informed of any risks to the environment, advocacy groups say. A report by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last month found that hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas can …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Sobha Singh & Ors. vs. State of Punjab & Ors dated 06/07/2015 regarding pollution of river Satluj.
Around the world people use bank machines to access cash: but in the Kenyan capital's crowded slums, people now use similar machines to access an even more basic requirement -- clean water. In a bid to boost access to clean water, four water dispensing machines have been installed in Nairobi …
The Punjab government will spend up to Rs 70 billion to provide clean drinking water for the next three years which includes up to Rs 11 billion for the financial year 2015-16, official sources revealed this on Thursday. The clean water project is already launched in the four districts of …
Lakes have played an important role in the history of Bengaluru; these were the primary sources of drinking water and irrigation in the last two decades. Due to the boom in the IT and related sectors in the silicon valley of India, has created an acute stress on the natural …
The Aurangabad Bench of Bombay High Court on Monday issued notices to the state government and the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board for their "inaction" against a company which has been allegedly polluting wells, farmland and the Sukhna river since long. According to the petition filed by Vaishnaw Rameshwar and Atmaram …
51 out of 83 locations spread across 40 important rivers at interstate borders are polluted with respect to Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD) says this new CPCB report on water quality of interstate rivers and recommends sewage treatment plants for all towns and cities. CPCB identified water quality monitoring stations at …
Pink salmon in the Pacific Ocean face a double threat of acidification linked to greenhouse gas emissions since it slows their early growth in rivers and disrupts the chemistry of seawater, a study showed on Monday. Impacts have in the past been more studied in the seas than in fresh …
