Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
This article began with a very simple thought. The Centre for Science and Environment’s (cse) campaigner on sustainable water management, Himanshu Thakkar, had prepared a draft paper on urban drinking water in which he had reviewed a number of documents and newsclippings that the Centre’s library had gathered on the …
• Yamuna (mainstream): 37.50 per cent (546 million litre per day (MLD) treated at Wazirabad; 409.50 MLD at Chandrawal) • Western Yamuna Canal: 33.36 per cent (910 MLD, treated at Haiderpur) • Ranney wells (huge wells on the riverbank) and tubewells: 10.81 per cent (295 MLD) • Ganga: 18.33 per …
On May 20, 1993, 17 persons died and 250 were seriously affected owing to consumption of the town’s polluted water. The tragedy was the handiwork of the Agra Jal Sansthan (AJS)
Troubles over water treatment don curious colours. In January 1997, Lyonnaise des Eaux, France's largest water distribution company, did the unexpected: It sued the government for failing to meet European Union (EU) directives on the maximum permissible level of nitrates in one of the rivers of the nation. The EU …
There are a total of 19 drains in Delhi. Of these, three discharge into the Agra canal, one into downstream Yamuna and 14 into the Delhi segment of the river. Nearly 2,800 million litres daily (MLD) of sewage/industrial effluents containing 200 tonnes (t) of BOD and 160 t of suspended …
A study carried out by H C Agarwal, P K Mittal, K B Menon and M K K Pillai of the department of zoology, University of Delhi, published in August 1985, traced DDT residues in water, bottom sediments and certain organisms from four different sites in the river. Total DDT …
“Round-the-clock monitoring by a network of zonal laboratories and a central laboratory ensures water quality. In Delhi, where people are very vocal, we cannot afford to be lax even for a moment,” claims a dwssdu spokesperson. However, Delhi itself is the Yamuna’s biggest polluter. “The stretch in the vicinity of …
Segment I: Himalayan: From source to Tajewala; 172 km Segment II: Upper: From Tajewala to Wazirabad; 224 km Segment III: Delhi: Wazirabad barrage to Okhla barrage; 22 km Segment IV: Eutrophicated (Eutrophication is the result of astronomical BOD and other micropollutant levels): Okhla barrage to Chambal confluence; 490 km Segment …
Date: February 17, 1997 Venue: International Court of Justice (icj), The Hague, The Netherlands Subject: First international environmental lawsuit involving the Danube river and the destruction of its ancient wetland region in Hungary the Szigetkoz wetlands (literally
Given the speed with which India's rivers are getting polluted, her urban environmentalists will soon have to adopt a new thought process: 'Think upstream'. Because all poisons dumped upstream - whether the source is industry or agriculture - ultimately reach somebody's drinking water. A poor nation like ours finds the …
On december 6, 1996, coinciding with a Vidisha bandh call, Subash Yadav, deputy chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, graced the town of Vidisha with his visit. Addressing a gathering at the sslj college, he exploded a bomb: the state government and the entire official machinery had "sold out" to the …
Just behind the Som distillery in Madhya Pradesh's Raisen district are the Krishna Industry's brick kilns. On the morning of December 26, 1996, a Down To Earth (DTE) reporter and photographer accompanied by two activists of the Kesariya Brigade (a local organisation), Akshay Kumar Sharma and Uma Shankar Vaid, visited …
For the people of Vidisha, religion and mythology have always had preeminent positions in their lives. And the Betwa winds its way through most of their religious beliefs and folklore. In ancient India, the Betwa was called
The movement had several curious fallouts. Satya Narain Sharma, the minister for housing and environment, was relieved of the environment portfolio without much fanfare. As minister, he had staunchly defended Som distillery and had denied the opposition charge that Betwa's water was unfit for consumption. At the time, he had …
Three officials of the Marcopper Mining Corporation in the Philippines have been named in a criminal prosecution launched by the Philippine government last month. The officials have been accused of negligence for allowing a copper mill - on the Marindique island - to leak toxic waste into the Boac river …
the much abused Huai river in China seems to have won a reprieve after a small but increasing number of environmentalists fought against it being used as an outlet to discharge industrial sludge. The environmental protection bureau recently issued an order to shut down all paper mills - numbering a …
Villages situated on the banks of the Shenzen river in south China are at the receiving end of the booming development in Hong Kong, as thousands of tonnes of industrial, livestock and human waste are dumped into the river. Efforts at cleaning up the river by Hong Kong have proved …
Even as Kanpur's administrators gear up for the delayed Phase-II of the Ganga Action Plan (GAP), work left over from Phase-I has stirred up an agitation. On World Environment day, June 6, environmentalists protested at Bhairoghat, the city's main point of water collection. They made their ire felt against an …
