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 …
Concerned over alarming levels of pollution around the famous Sri Jagannath Temple in Odisha, the National Green Tribunal today directed the authorities there to take appropriate steps to restore the environment as well to prevent its degradation any further. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar took note …
It has been a year since Varanasi associated itself with the Green Pilgrimage Network but it is yet to start working on the project. The India chapter of the Green Pilgrimage Network (GPN) was launched on October 15, 2013 in Hyderabad, which was organized by the International Council for Local …
Though the Karachi Corporation (KMC) and district Municipal Corporations (DMC) carried out operations for lifting the offal of the sacrificial animals from across the city but the lime dusting process was not thorough. Extremely foul odour was a source of utter mental torture, which needed a fast track lime dusting …
Upalokayukta Justice S B Majage on Tuesday directed the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) to stop the flow of sewage into the Allalasandra lake. Justice Majage told the BWSSB to divert the sewage at the earliest and to prevent the choking of the lake. T Venkataraju, engineer-in-chief of …
Offshore casinos operating in the River Mandovi have failed to comply with pollution-checking measures stipulated in the consent-to-operate given under the air and water acts thereby causing water pollution in the river, an inspection report of the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) has found. Following directions issued by the …
The hotel and restaurant owners in Kashmir today threatened to close down their hotels if the state authorities went ahead with their “suppressive policy” towards the them. The threat was hurled by them at a joint press conference here today. The press conference was addressed by G M Dug, Showkat …
Mumbai Firm To Prepare It For Nod From Central Govt Lucknow: The Lucknow Municipal Corporation has begun to work on the revised City Development Plan (CDP) to incorporate the increasing demands of the growing population in city for housing and infrastructure. As per officials, the revised CDP would be elaborate …
With the first community-based sewerage treatment plant in place, the Ugrachandi Nala VDC in Kavrepalanchok district has become a model community in achieving total sanitation. Open defecation, uncontrolled disposal of garbage and unmanaged drainage were a common view in the VDC just a few years ago. Now the scenario has …
The world's oceans are under greater threat than previously believed from a "deadly trio" of global warming, declining oxygen levels and acidification, an international study said on Thursday. The oceans have continued to warm, pushing many commercial fish stocks towards the poles and raising the risk of extinction for some …
The Punjab government on Thursday approved four development schemes in Energy Sector, Urban Development and District Program Sectors with an estimated cost of Rs. 3360.921 million. These schemes were approved in the 11th meeting of Provincial Development working party of current fiscal year 2013-14 presided over by the Punjab Planning …
This paper considers how resilience thinking and, in particular, its emphasis on learning has been applied in 10 cities in Vietnam, India, Thailand and Indonesia. Applying a “shared learning” approach in the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) has helped to create or strengthen networks, build appreciation for complexity …
Around 500 people, including 200 staffers from the metropolis, gathered on the banks of the Bishnumati River today to take part in the river cleaning campaign today. Kathmandu Metropolitan City Office initiated the campaign today to clean the Bishnumati River by removing solid waste and urging all not to throw …
Almost one-fifth of the centrally-funded sewage treatment plants in the country are "non-operational", leaving millions of liters of untreated water either sink into the ground as a potential pollutant of ground water or is discharged into natural drainage system causing pollution in downstream areas. Besides, performance of nearly another one-fifth …
The serene spread of the city lakes are turning into an eyesore. Thanks to the callous attitude of the municipal authorities, the inflow of untreated sewage, rubbish, feeding weeds are choking the precarious water bodies and its aquatic life of oxygen. Unauthorized constructions, algae, dirt, weeds and unkempt surroundings welcome …
The Punjab Government seems to be in a rush to lay the stone for a Rs 40-crore sewage treatment plant (STP) in Neelpur village tomorrow, though the district administration is yet to complete formalities for the land acquisition.The government has not paid a penny to the farmer whose land it …
The Sabarimala pilgrim season will begin in two months. However, apart from a few bathing ghats and 100 new toilets, the project to abate pollution at Pampa River has not progressed much. Minister of state for environment and forests (MoEF) Jayanthi Natarajan had announced that the project has been sanctioned …
Taking cognizance of pollution taking place in Beas river, National Green Tribunal ( NGT) has ordered to close 34 hotels, located in Kullu-Manali along river banks, found throwing its waste material in the river. Tribunal had found that these hotels were causing pollution in the river through dumping of waste …
Sewage treatment plants require environment clearance before being set up, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) today held while halting the construction of such a unit in village Narkatari in Kurukshetra district of Haryana. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar gave the ruling saying that in order to …
The number of registered vehicles in Delhi has increased from 7438155 in 2011-12 to 7774403 in 2012-13 according to this latest handbook which consists of data on various Socioeconomic parameters in respect of NCT of Delhi. Delhi Statistical Hand Book-2013 is the 38th issue being published by Directorate of Economics …
A Shenzhen-listed company identified by authorities as being responsible for a toxic spill that killed thousands of river fish apologized on Friday and said it would punish those responsible. Hubei Shuanghuan Science and Technology Stock Co., a manufacturer of inorganic chemicals, said it began a week-long production halt on Wednesday …
