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 …
The district administration and district health wing have initiated steps to prevent any possible outbreak of cholera in Kuttanad. Two cases of cholera have been confirmed in the area in the last few days. Following this a medical team led by district medical officer C Muraleedharan Pialli, visited Kuttanad on …
Water borne diseases have broken out in many villages in Kreeri and Tangmarg blocks of North Kashmir’s Baramulla district, leaving dozens of people sick and scores suffering from jaundice and fever. The local residents of villages Sherpora, Darpora, Waripora Bala, Waripora Payeen alleged that they are forced to drink highly …
Almost nine million children under 5 years of age die every year. Diarrhea is considered to be the second leading cause of under-five mortality in developing countries. About one out of five deaths is caused by diarrhea. In this paper, we use the newly available data set District Level Household …
Demand for White Paper explaining how Govt. intends to provide adequate drinking water Taking up the issue of the Capital’s water bodies drying up for lack of proper care and upkeep, Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party president Vijay Goel on Thursday demanded a White Paper from the State Government explaining how …
Diarrheal disease is an important health challenge, accounting for the majority of childhood deaths globally. Climate change is expected to increase the global burden of diarrheal disease but little is known regarding climate drivers, particularly in Africa. Using health data from Botswana spanning a 30-year period (1974–2003), we evaluated monthly …
Stresses on water supplies aggravated by climate change are likely to cause more conflicts and water should be considered as vital to national security as defense, the United Nations report said on Friday. About 145 nations share river basins with their neighbors and need to promote cooperation over a resource …
DIGBOI: With the unexpected discovery and detection of worm like aquatic creatures in drinking water this morning by the residents of Digboi Borbil in Tinsukia District being supplied by Digboi unit of Assam Public Health Engineering Department (APHED), the negligence of the department concerned has quite been felt by the …
Is the PPP model going to work in the field of drinking water services? Mana-ging director Patrick Rous-seau of the French MNC giant Veolia India who has been providing 24x7 drinking water to the municipalities of Belgaum, Gulbarga and Hubli-Dharwad in Karnataka feels it is imminently possible. “We joined hands …
The National Green Tribunal, Southern Bench, on Thursday directed the Chairman of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) and the Deputy Director General of Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), Southern Region, to submit a detailed report on packaged drinking water units operating in and around the city, deviations and …
With the increased contamination of drinking water affecting the health of rural people, the government has initiated steps to test the quality of water at all the villages. Though the task was gigantic to check quality of water with limited number of employees from various departments concerned, the government is …
Local bodies reluctant to take stringent action against polluters Health activists have raised serious questions about the quality of water supplied to rural homes since many establishments, including those of official agencies, have been found to release, often clandestinely, their wastes into rivers and other water sources. Complaints are also …
In a period where public financial resources are particularly limited, how do we prioritize investments in water security? Which aspects are most critical for enabling growth? What are the most significant investments needed to increase water security? And how can economics inform policy-makers who must decide how to allocate resources …
Increase in the number of multidrug resistant pathogens and the accompanied rise in case fatality rates has hampered the treatment of many infectious diseases including cholera. Unraveling the mechanisms responsible for multidrug resistance in the clinical isolates of Vibrio cholerae would help in understanding evolution of these pathogenic bacteria and …
From the active surveillance of diarrheal disease at the Infectious Diseases Hospital, Kolkata, 3826 stool specimens collected during 2008–2011 were screened for DEC and other enteric pathogens. PCR was used in the detection of enterotoxigenic, enteropathogenic and enteroaggregative E. coli and 10 major colonization factor antigens (CFs) of enterotoxigenic E. …
Fifty-nine per cent of water samples collected from rural areas in Islamabad are found unsafe for drinking and situation is even worse in Rawalpindi, with 83 per cent of the samples collected from villages across Rawalpindi district are unsafe. According to a report of Pakistan Council for Research in Water …
Inadequate access to safe water and sanitation services coupled with poor hygiene practices continues to kill, sicken and diminish opportunities of millions of people in developing countries. Various interventions to improve drinking water quality and service levels, sanitation and hygiene (WSH) have been applied, albeit in isolated approaches. Relevant literature …
Pune: The state government has decided to set up water testing labs at district and sub-district hospitals across the state to provide safe drinking water in rural areas. As part of this initiative, the state health department will set up 137 labs at the cost of Rs 15 crore. The …
The supply of contaminated water to residents of Srinivagilu Tank Bed Layout in Koramangala for the last few months has left many people reeling under the effects of water-borne diseases such as typhoid, cholera and gastroenteritis. Dr P M Mathew, a professor from Christ University and a resident of the …
The disease burden saw 14 per cent increase to 31,536 cases per district during October from September’s 27,587 cases. Ninety two districts reported 2,901,262 disease incidence in the observed month compared with previous month’s 2,400,052 in 87 districts, says a Free and Fair Election (Fafen) report. The Fafen who visited …
Water to be collected and distributed only from licensed sources: Food Safety Commissioner Commissioner of Food Safety Biju Prabhakar has issued a directive that henceforth, drinking water should be supplied in the State only in tanker lorries that have a Food Business Operator (FBO) licence under the Food Safety and …
