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 …
Scientists Discover Bacteria That Let Off Tiny Electrical Charges; May Also Be Used To Clean Up N-Disasters Oslo: Microbes may be harnessed more easily to generate energy after a finding about how they naturally let off tiny electrical charges, scientists said on Monday. The bacteria, found to have microscopic
Bangalore, If all goes well, the Ulsoor Lake may be free from sewage by next year, with Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) all set to lay separate underground pipelines. The work, part of the Environmental Action Plan (EAP), will be taken up on priority basis by the Board, …
Chicago waterways long used to carry away the city's waste must be cleaned up expeditiously so residents can play in them, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency told state officials on Thursday. "A decade of investments in walkways, boat ramps and parks has provided people with access to the water -- …
CHENNAI: Posing an abominable picture and causing severe health hazards is the garbage strewn across the streets, adjoining the Kasimedu Housing Board quarters in MGR Nagar. While uncleared garbage has left the streets overflowing with waste, adding to it is the sewage water from the housing board which spills on …
A recent survey in the Sassoon Hospital here showed that 20 out of 3,172 patients were carrying the superbug, NDM-1 gene. Sixty-six per cent of the patients also showed multidrug resistance. While it is not a cause for immediate worry, experts say, the high level of resistance to drugs could …
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Wednesday approved an outlay of Rs.1,255 crore for upgradation of water supply and sewerage works in the State. Of this, Rs.567 crore would be spent for improvement of drinking water supply facilities in rural areas. He was presiding over the first meeting of …
MARGAO, Will the concerned authorities finally act in restoring the water bodies, including the Colva creek with the rampant water contamination coming under the scanner of High Court? High Court directives to the Colva Panchayat and other authorities to file a reply on the action taken on the directions issued …
Environmental groups on Tuesday sued the city of Chicago's water treatment authority, charging its sewage promotes algae growth that is choking Midwestern rivers and contributes to the Gulf of Mexico's "dead zone." The federal lawsuit demands Chicago's Metropolitan Water Reclamation District deal with frequent runoff of untreated sewage into local …
Urban revolution: 20 new trendsetters to redifine India by 2030India is on the threshold of an urban revolution, the scale and speed of which is unprecedented. It took nearly 40 years for the urban population to rise by 230 million but it will take only half this time to add …
Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ameer Haidar Khan Hoti has approved in principle the establishment of an autonomous authority for clean drinking water, sewerage and sanitation in provincial capital, Peshawar. The chief minister has directed the concerned authorities for submission of joint proposals in consultation with all stakeholders for finalisation of …
The Haryana Government has prepared City Development Plans (CDPs) for 73 towns of the State to plug loopholes in basic infrastructure like roads, drains, water supply and sewerage. Stating this here on Sunday, an official spokesman said that under the CDPs, Rs.1695.01 crore has been earmarked for urban local bodies …
Rs56,701 for one square foot of land in Kharadi? If this sounds unbelievable, this is precisely what the land and estate department of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) said in reply to a Right to Information (RTI) application on April 5, 2011. Pune-based river activist, Sarang Yadwadkar, in his RTI …
JAMMU, Chief Secretary, Madhav Lal today asked the concerned agencies to work out solutions to the bottlenecks coming in the way of on time completion of Rs. 262.15 crore sewerage treatment projects in the mission cities of Jammu and Srinagar. Chairing a review meeting in this regard, the Chief Secretary …
The officials of the Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB) are not aware of whether or not the drinking water that they supply to customers in the cantonment area is fit for human consumption. The SCB does not even have the basic equipment that is needed to test the presence of chlorine …
The Union Environment Ministry has finally approved the Bio-Remediation Project for cleaning up the Buddha Nullah. The multi-crore project will be funded 100 per cent by the government of India and represents the largest project of this magnitude undertaken in the country by the ministry. The Centre had released Rs …
With over a thousand crore in its kitty, the Delhi Jal Board hopes to reach out to areas with no supply, plug leaks, enhance the treatment capacity and improve consumer convenience during the financial year 2011-12. On Tuesday, the Jal Board submitted its budget to Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and …
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal lent an ear to 116 panchayats of the Jandiala constituency on Sunday and assured all-round development of the region, during a Sangat Darshan programme held at Dana Mandi in Mehta. He gave Rs 5 core for development work
Yet another World Water Day has arrived without the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board being able to supply potable water to all its consumers in the city. The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board is presently supplying 342 million gallons per day (MGD) of water to the …
