Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
Two more people have been quarantined at Beitbridge District Hospital after they were diagnosed with cholera last Thursday. This brings to 10 the total number of cholera cases recorded in country after similar cases were reported in Mudzi and Chiredzi. Chairperson of the Beitbridge civil protection committee Mr Simon Muleya, …
TALCHER: Even as the State Government has mobilised all its resources to contain jaundice outbreak in Sambalpur, the threat of the disease taking roots in Talcher looms large. The residents of the town claimed that they virtually consume drain water in the absence of a sewerage system. With health experts …
RAIPUR: A study conducted by National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Delhi, has confirmed the presence of coliform bacteria, found in feces in the drinking water supply in Raipur and identified it as the main cause for recent jaundice (Hepatitis E) breakout in city, which claimed two lives and left …
LILONGWE, March 5 (Xinhua) -- The World Health Organization (WHO) has intensified support for Malawi and Mozambique in the wake of an outbreak of cholera in the two African countries, the UN health agency said. "The WHO offices in Malawi and Mozambique are facilitating cross-border meetings for the ministries of …
Eight cholera cases have been reported in Beitbridge, Mudzi and Chiredzi, while another case is being investigated in Chirundu. In Beitbridge, the Civil Protection Unit yesterday said it had, however, managed to contain the outbreak, which saw two children aged five and 10 being quarantined at Beitbridge District Hospital on …
According to a recent toll had revealed that the scare was hitting Malawi's borders more especially Mozambique borders. As of now Malawi24 can reveal that the Ministry of Health says the cases in Malawi have rapidly increased to 60 from 39 as it was initially projected. The Ministry's Spokesperson Henry …
Maputo — The cholera outbreaks in central and northern Mozambique, which began in late December, have now claimed 41 lives, according to the deputy national director of public health, Quinhas Fernandes. Fernandes told a Maputo press conference on Monday that the number of confirmed cases in the four provinces affected …
India has emphasised inclusion of adaptation as a part of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC). For understanding adaptation requirements, we need to understand and value climate change impacts first. This preliminary assessment tries to estimate the cost of global climate change impacts for India. The study aims at estimating first …
Maputo — Cholera has spread to the central Mozambican province of Zambezia, the provincial governor, Abdul Razak Noormahomed, told a press conference in the provincial capital, Quelimane, on Tuesday. Razak said that two cases of cholera were diagnosed on Monday, and a further six on Tuesday morning. All eight cases …
SIX people have been confirmed dead with eight others being treated in hospitals following the outbreak of cholera disease in Ebonyi State. The deaths were confirmed by the State Director of Public Health and Disease Control, Dr. Christian Achi during an interaction with journalists in Abakaliki, the state capital yesterday. …
Health authorities say contaminated water supply behind sudden spike A sudden rise in typhoid cases has been witnessed in Rajouri and its adjoining areas forcing the district health authorities to take various preventive measures and organise several programmes to make people aware about the disease and its prevention. The Superintendent, …
Bhubaneswar: Housing and Urban Development Minister Pushpendra Singh Deo on Monday told the State Assembly that the Odisha Urban Water Supply Policy-2013 would be implemented from 2015-16 in order to streamline drinking water supply in the State. The Minster informed this while replying to an Adjournment Motion on the spread …
Yenagoa — Death toll in the cholera outbreak in Bayelsa State increased to 23 on Tuesday as the epidemic claimed two more lives in Otuan, Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state. Eight persons were killed by the epidemic at the weekend in Osiama and Ekede in Sagbama Local …
The quality of drinking water supplied in many parts of the district has become a cause of concern with the possibilities of a rise in water-borne diseases from the affected areas. Latest health department reports indicated that even the water samples from Aurangabad taluka were contaminated. The latest drinking water …
PORT HARCOURT--RIVERS State Government has confirmed the outbreak of cholera in Andoni Local Government Area of the state, saying that about 20 persons have so far died from the disease. State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Sampson Parker, in a statement, said about 171 cases had been reported in some communities …
Availability of clean water and adequate sanitation facilities are of prime importance for limiting diarrheal diseases. We examined the spatial information on the groundwater quality and sanitation facilities of a village in southern India using Geographic Information System (GIS) tools. Place of residence, position of wells and latrines were mapped …
It is very tough trade-off between economic growth and environmental sustainability in a faster growing developing country like India. The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis proposes that environmental degradation initially increases with the income rise, and then begins to decrease once a certain threshold of income growth is achieved. The …
The study analysed that water pollution and water borne diseases. Water is one of the most important natural resources for all living organisms. Water pollution is a serious threat around the globe. Water pollution is generally referred to contamination of natural water resources. Man has polluted much of this limited …
The first-ever maps of global vulnerability to dengue, a mosquito-borne tropical virus that produces a painful condition of body joints sometimes referred to as "breakbone fever," were published by UN University's Canadian-based Institute for Water, Environment and Health. The maps colourfully illustrate the dynamic expansion and contraction of dengue vulnerability …
