Counter affidavit on behalf of Chief Municipal Engineer, Patna Nagar Nigam in the matter of Saurav Narayan Vs Bihar Pollution Control Board & Others dated May 20, 2025. The report said that the corporation has been diligently performing its statutory duties within the limitations of the available resources and infrastructure. …
Anybody can tell you they are essential for a decent way of life: safe drinking water and sanitation. Since the 1980s governments have made drinking water available to more and more people across the worldyetmillions survive without it even today. Sanitationon the other handis not a priority on the governments'
California, USA, is planning to introduce a toilet-to-tap programme to solve the prevailing water shortage problem in the state. The planned project will include a three-year trial period during which about nine million gallons of wastewater will be processed every day at the Donald C Tillman Water Reclamation Plant at …
• The highly endangered bird kharmore ( lesser florican ) has been sighted in village Tarkhedi, about 70 kilometres from Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh. • India has joined an international programme aimed at helping scientists, teachers and students to study and research the dynamics of the Earth's environment. The programme is …
Leptospirosis, a bacterial disease, has killed 42 people of 389 cases reported in different parts of the country. The disease has reached epidemic proportions in many parts of Mumbai, Gujarat and Delhi. "We are not geared up for disaster management,' says Vinay Aggarwal, honorary joint secretary, Indian Medical Association. With …
cleaner alternative: A biofertiliser plant has been established in Bharatpur, Rajasthan, and it will start production by the end of September, 2000. The plant has been established by the National Federation for Agricultural Cooperative Marketing. The biofertiliser is being introduced in the market to stop the degradation of soil and …
In the year 1991-92, 2,297 metric tonnes (mt) of pesticides in the rabi season and 903 mt in the kharif season are reported to have been used in Rajasthan, says Kabra. In 1998-99, the total pesticide usage during the kharif season was 879 mt, whereas the estimated target was 850 …
with a confused leadership providing no able direction, frustration and alarm is growing at the rampant spread of aids throughout South Africa. And the announcement by five of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies offering to slash prices of hiv drugs in developing countries has done little to mitigate the suffering. …
Since India's independence, government policies in at least four crucial areas have had damaging effects: - common grazing lands - water management - agriculture, and - animal breeding. Common grazing lands: the disappearing act "Politics is short-term religion. Religion is long-term politics,' said the socialist leader Ram Manohar Lohia. This …
If you want to see how water scarcity is created, pay a visit to Gaffurbhai Allahrakhha. Right since he learned to walk, he has been the caretaker of a shrine of a saint, built on the embankment of Boda Talaab, a pond in Surendranagar town of Gujarat. Although hardly anybody …
Japan's high population density of 335 people per square km is eight times the world average of 40. With very limited land available, the country's options for disposing sewage and waste are limited. Yet the Japanese have set about the task in a typically efficient manner. The country treats all …
1888 Tokyo Municipal Improvement Commission set up; this came about after the cholera epidemics of 1879 and 1886 in which over 100,000 people suffered got the disease. 1889 A report filed by British engineer, B K Burton, on municipal improvement of Tokyo; he was asked to do the same for …
THE reality of participation has often differed from the rhetoric. In fact, much development, which is participatory in nature, has remained top-down in practice. This may be so because even though participation has been promoted, there has been no change in personal attitudes and more so in the bureaucratic set …
What makes an impression is perhaps the splash of bright colours. However, the "2000 Millennium Cartoon Calendar on Water and the Poor' may come as a bit of a disappointment. Produced by the Water and Sanitation Programme, an international effort under the aegis of the World Bank and the United …
How does pollution affect the poor? In the developed countries, it is not the poor who are responsible for environmental problems. It is the richer class which owns more than one car per family, who dump their waste in the neighbourhood. Therefore, the rich are enjoying themselves at the expense …
The Delhi high court has pulled up authorities at the Safdarjung Hospital and said that the hospital premises must be cleaned within two weeks. A three-member committee of advocates, comprising Ashok Aggarwal, Rajiv Awasthi and Meera Bhatia, found insects in intensive care units, unclean toilets and a dirty general ward. …
Delhi Lt Governor Vijay Kapoor and Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit differed on the modalities to provide better sanitary service for a healthier Delhi. Both the LG and CM were expressing their views in the symposium on vector born disease, organised by the MCD on Wednesday.
Due to limited reserves and an the huge polluting potential of petroleum fuels, researchers are working on various alternativ fuels. New technologies are also being worked out to enable these fuels to be efficient and economical. Gasoline-powered vehicles discharge huge amounts of pollutants such as carbon monoxide, unburned hydrocarbons, lead …
