The 2024 blue drop results show an alarming increase in unsafe municipal drinking water, with 13% of blue drop tests across the country that point to unsafe drinking water. The drinking water of 28 towns and cities did not comply with standards for safe drinking water. Drinking water that does …
Dongguan, the city in Guangdong that has been dubbed the world's workshop, plans to spend 18 billion yuan ($2.92 billion) on controlling water pollution. The industrial hub was last year named by the Ministry of Water Resources as one of 45 pilot cities required to develop sound water-related infrastructure. Dongguan …
BEIJING - China's top economic planner announced Friday it would double charges for pollutant disposal in the latest move against pollution. Charges on pollutants in sewage and exhaust gas disposal will be set at no less than 1.4 yuan ($0.23) and 1.2 yuan per pollution equivalent, respectively, according to a …
This is the first recorded presence of this particular strain of deadly antibiotic resistant ‘super bug’ in India A deadly bacteria variant known as NDM-4, which is also called the “super bug”, has been found by the medical researchers at Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College of Aligarh Muslim University from the …
Hong Kong closed 14 beaches in the New Territories after a sewage treatment plant was forced to discharge 95,000 cubic meters of household waste, enough to fill 38 Olympic-sized swimming pools, into the sea. The Pillar Point sewage plant at Tuen Mun reported a malfunction in its sieving devices, or …
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has asked an expert committee to review Delhi’s drainage system and rely on a drainage map made in 1976, while concluding how many drains in Delhi are man-made. Previously, the expert committee had told the tribunal that almost 46 per cent of Delhi — effectively …
The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) can stake its claim to the central government’s funds to complete its water, sewage and waste management projects since the BJP government may launch a scheme for renewal of 500 urban habitations in the country. The union ministry for urban development had organised a two-day …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) Bhopal bench has issued notices to the state government of Rajasthan and Rajasthan Pollution Control Board seeking reply on the matter of vegetable cultivation in the state using sewerage water of the cities. The tribunal has issued these notices while allowing a petition filed by …
MARGAO: In a bid to check sewage and waste discharge into River Sal which had led to large scale death of shell fish, the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) has issued directions to the Chinchinim Primary health centre and the Velim Panchayat to inspect and verify the houses and …
KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Ministry of Health Monday announced that, $389 million will be spent on rehabilitating a number of sewage treatment plants at hospitals across the island as part of phase two of a sewage treatment project. The ministry says existing mechanical systems will be refurbished under this phase …
Ministry of Housing and Infrastructure today has signed a contract with Fenaka Corporation Limited for the development of sewerage network to the newly constructed housing units in Dh. Kudahuvadhoo Island. The ceremony held yesterday morning at Ministry of Housing and Infrastructure was attended by Minister of Housing and Infrastructure Dr. …
FAISALABAD: A sum of Rs90 million have been allocated for 10 schemes of water supply and sewerage under annual development programme of the district government. According to official sources, an amount of Rs2.14 million will be spent on water supply schemes in two villages Chak No 446-JB and Chak No …
The areas having a large population of migrants face the threat of outbreak of a disease as the Municipal Corporation and the Health Department have not shown any concern about sanitation there. During a visit to Dhandari Kalan, Jamalpur, Bihari Colony, Fauji Mohalla, Durga Colony and Prem Nagar, it was …
FAISALABAD: A sum of Rs90 million have been allocated for 10 schemes of water supply and sewerage under annual development programme of the district government. According to official sources, an amount of Rs2.14 million will be spent on water supply schemes in two villages Chak No 446-JB and Chak No …
A Bill further to amend the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974. This Act may be called the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Amendment Act, 2014.
PANAJI: The Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) has shut down around 50 massage parlours and spas in the state for operating without consent to operate under the Water Act and Air Act. GSPCB's technical advisory committee has framed guidelines for assessment for consent to operate for spas. After spas …
The monsoon is about to come to Varanasi, India's ancient city on the Ganges, putting an end to the daily swimming lessons held in the river after school. The children will miss the cooling water, but some experts say it is so polluted the lessons should never be allowed at …
When Palestinians in the Gaza Strip seek some relief from the grind of life in an enclave plagued by conflict and hardship, they usually need to look no further than their sandy beaches. But this summer access to the cooling waters of the Mediterranean is gradually being closed off to …
Officers within the organisation were worried the Great Keppel Island eco-tourism resort could harm water quality and coral The Great Barrier Reef marine park authority identified serious reef health concerns related to a large marina development it later approved, according to the ABC. The marina is part of a $600m …
PANAJI: Congress general secretary Ulhas Parab has demanded that the government immediately stop casinos from operating in the Mandovi river as their sewage has caused dangerous levels of pollution in the river. Parab also urged the government to file cases against the casinos under Sections of the Environment Protection Act. …
