Order of the High Court of Madhya Pradesh in the matter of Vishvajeet Ratoniya Vs The State of Madhya Pradesh & Others dated 26/11/2024. The matter related to Swarn Rekha river revival. Amicus Curiae referred to the order dated November 20, 2024 and submitted that Municipal Corporation, Gwalior had to …
Delhi Jal Board will construct 53 underground reservoirs before the Games: Chief Minister NEW DELHI: The Delhi Jal Board would speed up the process of laying water and sewer lines in all the unauthorised colonies across the Capital before the commencement of the Commonwealth Games in 2010, Chief Minister Sheila …
Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) has taken an initiative to develop a proper sewerage system with a view to curbing pollution of Banani-Gulshan and Gulshan-Baridhara lakes. The decision was taken yesterday at a meeting attended by LGRD Adviser Anwarul Iqbal and Public Works Adviser Maj Gen (retd) Ghulam Quader. The meeting …
Excavation of few canals and removal of already identified blockages in the drainage system can save the port city from waterlogging and inundation, said the speakers at a roundtable yesterday. The roundtable titled 'Drainage: A Menace for Chittagong' was organised by The Daily Star Chittagong Bureau Office at its conference …
There is no possibility of respite for around 4 lakh people in Jhigatola area in the city from severe waterlogging soon as the authorities are likely to start work for development of a new sewerage system in the area in November. People of the area said they have been facing …
Hundreds of people on Wednesday staged a demonstration in the city's Pakka Garha locality against the district government's failure to lay a sewerage system here despite repeated appeals by locals to the authorities over the last several years. The protesters, who were carrying banners and placards inscribed with their demands, …
Sindh Minister for Fisheries Zahid Ali Bhurgari has said that a water supply and sewerage scheme for the development of Qasimabad taluka has been submitted to Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah and he has called for a feasibility report from the departments concerned to lay a network of …
A defective sewerage system, industrial effluents and deserted water filtration plants are making the people of Gujrat to drink contaminated water. Gujrat's drinking water is contaminated with coliform bacteria. According to a study, human excretion is mixing in the drinking water because of the city's 40-year-old seeping sewerage system. In …
For the uninitiated, it is almost surreal: men and boys, stepping out of their homes into the unpaved and narrow alleys of Nursery Town, in Korangi 2-1/2, as the clock strikes three in the night, armed with rolls of colourful plastic tubing. Dropping the pipes to their fixed post, they …
Corporators claim work will not be complete by May-end deadline, officials say desilting and dredging will continue during rains While the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's officials have made repeated assurances that the major drains will be thoroughly desilted in time for the monsoon, the ground reality at various nullahs across the …
Despite spending millions of rupees on projects of installation of water filtration plants, replacement of rusty water supply lines, increasing number of collection of water samples from 25 to 40 daily and purification of water through chlorination, the provision of clean water is still a distant dream for Lahorites. According …
Trash hangs on trees after water receded along a creek in Indianapolis in Sept. 2003. The trash was accompanied by raw sewage that overflows into rivers and streams after heavy rains. Examples of recent, major sewage spills. Some of these municipal sewer authorities already have been fined or face other …
The Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority will complete seven kilometres of drainage lines in Uttara residential area by June this year to protect the area from water logging during monsoons. The WASA will also install another 15km drainage lines in phases in the Uttara Model Town after following completion …
* Seventy percent of the world's surface is covered by water but 97.5 percent of that is salt water. Of the remaining 2.5 percent that is freshwater, 68.7 percent is frozen in ice caps and glaciers. Less than one percent is available for human use. * More than 1.2 billion …
Although the country has attained 85 percent sanitation coverage, few people are using sanitary latrines, speakers at a view exchange meeting said yesterday. Only 39 percent of people across the country are using improved sanitation systems, which include flush or pour flush to piped sewer system, septic tank, pit latrine …
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit announced on Saturday that her Government would soon provide sewer facilities in about 200 villages of the Capital to ensure facilities at par with the other approved colonies. Laying the foundation stone of a new 58-lakh-litre capacity underground reservoir and booster pumping station at Narela, Ms. …
The Delhi government would provide sewer facilities in over 200 villages of the Capital. Chief Minister and chairperson of Delhi Jal Board Sheila Dikshit announced this during the foundation ceremony of a boaster pumping station at Narela. Over Rs 782 lakh would be spent on the construction of Narela underground …
Thirty-two sewerage schemes to be completed at a cost of Rs623.706 million in Latifabad, city and Qasimabad Talukas have been approved by the District Nazim of Hyderabad, Kanwar Naveed Jamil. The decision was taken in a meeting held on Thursday at the District Nazim's Secretariat and attended by Chairman District …
Over 60,000 ton waste has been removed from the open drains and sewerage pipes in 10 localities of Lahore during the past six months by the Project Management Unit (PMU) of the Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa). As a result of desiltation, sewage water flow in the Mian Mir, Sattu …
Sewage gushing out of chocked gutters has inundated several major streets in Lyari, causing inconvenience to the residents and creating a hindrance in the smooth flow of vehicular traffic. The worst-affected areas of the locality include D. D. Chaudhry Road, Police Quarters, Baghdadi police station on Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai …
