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 …
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: The National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) on Monday approved an ambitious project to prevent the discharge of untreated municipal sewage and industrial effluent into the Ganga by 2020. An estimated investment of Rs. 15,000 crore over the next 10 years will be required to create …
THE Madras High Court has asked the gover nment of Tamil Nadu to tell if there was any deviation from the original scheme for the implementation of the Chennai City River Water Conservation Project (CCRCP) and to specify if defects were found in the materials that were used like pipes. …
Navelim villagers on Sunday demanded the intervention of the government to save the once picturesque Xelpem lake polluted by the discharge of sewage waters from neighbouring Margao city. Agitated villagers sought to know why the government has been going slow in working out a solution to the problem despite the …
Well at Pajifond contaminated Rampant discharge of untreated sewage in the open has come back to haunt the Margao Municipal Council. Believe it or not, a drinking water well existing since the Portuguese era at Pajifond is proposed to be buried as the well waters has been left contaminated by …
The people of the city are facing psychological and physical problems due to the penetration of commercial activities into residential areas. The University of Karachi Department of Geography conducted a study that is the first serious attempt to identify the spatial pattern of the commercial functions in the planned neighbourhoods …
MANISH ANAND Decks have been cleared for laying of ambitious interceptor sewer project to improve the condition of Yamuna after the fund starved Delhi government made arrangements for Rs 800 crores for the Delhi Jal Board. The Delhi government has arranged a loan from Hudco to partly fund the Rs …
Deepa H Ramakrishnan and K. Lakshmi PREPARATORY WORK: Stormwater drains on Pantheon road being attended to . CHENNAI: The Chennai Corporation has identified a total of 1,500 overflow connections to its stormwater drain (SWD) network and 267 sewer outfalls from the network into the Cooum and Adyar rivers. The major …
Sewerage waste of nearby localities is being disposed of in Rawal Lake, the National Assembly (NA) was informed on Wednesday. In query made by Chaudhry Muhammad Barjees Tahir, Interior Minister Rehman Malik told the lower house that due to increase in population and inadequate sewerage disposal mechanism, effluent partially came …
Sandeep Moudgal, Bangalore, DH News Service: The Nellurhalli lake in Whitefield is in a state of total decay, with sewerage lines discharging effluents from factories and a private hospital in the vicinity. The lake has been reduced to a polluted water body with hyacinths and carcasses, garbage on the banks …
Asha Prakash KOCHI: Every year, the tons of sewage generated from the Sabarimala temple premises during the season posed a major threat to the environment around. The waste was being emptied into the Pamba river, which resulted in further pollution of the already much polluted river. That is, until the …
Pune The PMC Environment Status Report (ESR) has attributed the reason for water pollution to mix of sewage water in the existing water resources in the city jurisdiction. The civic body plans to treat 100 per cent of sewage generated in the city by 2015. The report says that water …
The scheme's main aim is to check the discharge of urban sewage into the Cauvery river THE government has approved a Rs 209.23-crore underground drainage (UGD) project for Erode. According to official sources, Rs 71.14 crore will be given as loan to facilitate the long-pending project while Rs 62.77 crore …
The Goa Pollution Control Board has finally cracked a whip against institutions to arrest the pollution of River Sal. In two separate orders, the pollution Control Board has directed the managements of Konkan Railway and Ms Apollo Victor Hospitals to immediately stop the release of untreated waste water in the …
The Noida Jal Nigam has proposed to install four new sewerage treatment plants (STP) with upgraded technology at the cost of Rs 150 crore. In the Master Plan 2021, the installation of STPs would not only ensure good environment but would also ensure better quality of treated water, which can …
The Save River Sal campaign took the centre stage on Sunday when the stake holders called for united and joint efforts to restore the river to its former glory. 'The problems facing River Sal are many. The situation demands that we all work together so that we can help each …
Karachi Port Trust (KPT) and Port Qasim Authority (PQA) on Monday singed two memorandum of understanding (MoUs) with a French firm to conduct a comprehensive study on the development of desalination and water treatment plants at Karachi Port and Port Qasim. The MoUs were signed by KPT Chairperson Nasreen Haque …
Mangroves should not be used as sewage disposal sites. It is killing them mangroves grow in highly saline, coastal waters, representing a very unique ecosystem. According to an estimate, a mangrove forest supports 100 species of plants and about 500 species of animals, birds and fish. These forests also act …
