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 …
Scottish Water has announced a £3.5bn investment programme to improve water mains and drinking water supplies. The publicly-owned company's six year investment programme is expected to support 5,000 jobs. The programme is supported by £720m in borrowing from the Scottish government. Scotland's Deputy First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, said she expected …
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources has taken a number of steps for provision of safe drinking water in the country. According to official sources, the Council has established twenty-four Water Quality Testing Laboratories in major cities of the country to facilitate general public and implementing agencies to …
The Johnson Foundation at Wingspread announced the release of “Navigating to New Shores: Seizing the Future for Sustainable and Resilient U.S. Freshwater Resources,” a report that culminates the Foundation’s work through its Charting New Waters (CNW) initiative. In its latest phase, CNW focused on what it will take to transform …
The CEO Water Mandate, part of the UN Global Compact, has released a report titled ‘Corporate Water Disclosure Guidelines: Toward a Common Approach to Reporting Water Issues.' The report aims to provide common approaches and metrics for disclosure that will facilitate progress towards sustainable corporate water management. The report includes …
Seven villages in the district, that were earlier issued red card by the Zilla Parishad (ZP) for poor water quality, have now been given the green card after a recent pre-monsoon water testing drive. The bacteriological tests carried out by the Zilla Parishad in June had revealed that 10 drinking …
The locals of Khandbari, the district headquarters of Sankhuwasabha district, have been unable to use water from their taps for either consumption or household use as water mixed with sewage has been flowing through the taps due to the negligence of the concerned agencies. As a result, the locals have …
BSS, Chuadanga :The Public Health Engineering Department has taken up a scheme to supply pure drinking water to the Darsana Pourashava dwellers.The scheme will be implemented at a cost of Taka 5.50 crore, mayor of the Pourashava Mohidul Islam told BSS Tuesday.Three over head water preserving tanks would be constructed …
In right earnest to prevent floods and water shortage VIT University Chancellor G. Viswanathan has appealed to the Central government to take up river link project to solve the water shortage faced by many States. Inaugurating a 5-day training programme on ‘Sustainable Development and Management of Ground Water Resources,’ organised …
As a key section of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project prepares to go into operation, water quality tests show the battle against pollution is being won. The first phase of the central route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project is scheduled to be launched in late October. The water quality …
GUJRAT: The potable water in two union councils of the flood-hit areas has been declared unfit for the human consumption after the district government had sent water samples of at least 77 places of flood-affected areas to laboratories. The district government has started distributing the gallons carrying at least 10 …
Protesters rallied on Monday to demand that a World Bank tribunal reject an international mining company’s claim for $300 million (185 million pounds) from El Salvador over denial of a gold mining license. El Salvador refused to issue OceanaGold Corp an extraction permit in 2006. Activists say that the company …
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Monday urged his Himachal Pradesh counterpart Virbhadra Singh to jointly put up an effective monitoring mechanism for the cleaning up of Ghaggar river. Badal, in a letter to Virbhadra Singh, informed him about the deterioration of the water quality of Ghaggar in Punjab. …
A plan to improve the Great Barrier Reef’s water quality and conserve species such as turtles may not be enough to stave off a United Nations “in danger” listing for the ecosystem, environmentalists have warned. The draft Reef 2050 long-term sustainability plan, a joint strategy by the federal and Queensland …
Past Checks On Other Parameters One-third of Lucknow drinks water from the river Gomti but it has never been tested whether that water is fit for consumption. Now, a high court order will make the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board do so for the first time. On Tuesday, the high …
Dongguan, the city in Guangdong that has been dubbed the world's workshop, plans to spend 18 billion yuan ($2.92 billion) on controlling water pollution. The industrial hub was last year named by the Ministry of Water Resources as one of 45 pilot cities required to develop sound water-related infrastructure. Dongguan …
KATHMANDU: The Department of Food Technology and Quality Control (DFTQC) today disposed 50 jars of Ava branded bottled water that were unsafe for drinking. The water was confiscated from Bhakti Food Industries, Sitapaila, on August 11 by the Metropolitan Police Balaju beat after receiving complaints from local consumers and submitted …
LAHORE - Contaminated drinking water is posing serious hazards, as the ‘potable’ water is being supplied in the city through rusting pipelines. Though government allocated an ample fund of Rs1.5billion to replace them, the Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) has failed to complete the project. Among samples taken by PCSIR …
By 2050, around 70% of the world's population of 9,2 billion people is expected to live in an urban environment. Especially in developing countries this increasing population and expanding cities pose great challenges with respect to access to clean drinking water, sanitation, waste water treatment and protection against floods. On …
Bajhang, Sept 2: Roughly 85 per cent of drinking water sources and tap water in remote Himalayan district, Bajhang, are found with coliform bacteria that can cause life-threatening disease jaundice and diarrhea. The coliform bacteria was detected in a lab test of drinking water carried out by technical team of …
The present study deals with the physic-chemical parameters at selected areas of Tuticorin District, Tamil Nadu, India for the year 2014. Seven different samples were collected from different sampling sites and were analyzed for different physic-chemical parameters. The obtained values were compared with the standard values of ISI, ICMR and …
