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 …
CHANDIGARH: The Haryana Government has taken up a project under the Economic Stimulus Package to provide 100 per cent coverage of water supply and sewerage facilities in 14 towns, an official spokesman said here on Monday.The towns are Ambala City, Assandh, Bhiwani, Charkhi Dadri, Fatehabad, Hansi, Kalayat, Kaithal, Mahendergarh, Narnaul, …
Ranchi, July 30: Jharkhand has embarked on a mammoth project to rejuvenate five dams and reservoirs that act as prime water sources for capital Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Hazaribagh and Chatra, a move that will also help the state tap central funds. The water bodies that have been chosen include Getalsud and …
The pollution load on rivers has increased over the years due to rapid urbanisation and industrialization. Domestic sewage is the major source of pollution of rivers besides industrial and other non-point sources of pollution. Abstraction of water for irrigation, drinking, industrial use, power etc. compounds the challenge. Based on the …
Jamshedpur, July 27: It is a Rs 15.01-crore promise of better life for some 6,000 underprivileged denizens of the steel city. The Union urban development ministry today sanctioned the funds for development of four slums under the Adityapur Municipal Council and one under Jugsalai Municipality. Civic officials said the money …
New Delhi: Some two years after it was first mooted, the Delhi cabinet on Tuesday approved the Rs 1,358 crore project for installation of interceptors in the three main drains emptying into the Yamuna. The cabinet approved it even though a senior minister who has been opposed to the project …
Nearly Six-And-A-Half-Years After Underpass Became Operational, PWD Started Laying Pipes Just Before This Monsoon New Delhi: The flooding of Dhaula Kuan underpass which led to long traffic jams on Wednesday evening, and threw traffic out of gear on several connecting roads has exposed how poor planning and shortsightedness are responsible …
KOLKATA, 8 July: The state government's shortsightedness may result in disaster in vast areas of south Kolkata surrounding Rashbehari that face threats of caving in. Experts say that if there is subsidence, the magnitude of the disaster will be too great for the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to manage. Besides, …
This report aims guiding through next steps in achieving the goal of total sanitation for Hoshangabad. The report analyses various city-wide or Strategic level sanitation technical options available for Hoshangabad and lays down road map for achieving total sanitation.
Isher J Ahluwalia , Ranesh Nair Until 10 years ago, Alandur, a residential suburb of Chennai in the Kanchipuram district, famous for its ancient temples, had no underground sewerage. In 80% of the metropolitan area outside the city of Chennai, most households depended on septic tanks with soak pits. The …
Stay vacated by HC, new sewage plant can finally be linked to network Despite the crores of rupees spent on laying sewer lines and maintaining existing ones, the drainage system in Gurgaon still falls woefully short. Now, with the Punjab and Haryana High Court vacating the stay on the final …
Pune Municipal Commissioner Mahesh Zagade on Thursday expressed concern over the linking of sewage and storm water drainage line. He has directed his staff to immediately identify the connecting point and separate it.
Poor Waste Disposal System, Unauthorised Constructions & Siltation Behind Flooding: NSSO Report THE monsoon may affect the urban poor more as 48% slums are facing acute waterlogging problems, affecting about 4 million households. In 2002, waterlogging had affected 36% slums, as per a report by the National Sample Survey Office …
Nature might have cleaned up the contaminated Colva creek of the sewage and other waste, but are the authorities geared up to ensure that no further sewage finds its way into the water body? Well, ask the Colva Panchayat and the panchayat secretary says that the local body has issued …
C Shivakumar| CMWSSB will procure new devices worth Rs 8 crore. Plans are on to purchase 25 more jet rodding machines, 17 desilting machines and three super suction machines } IN a bid to cut down complaints, Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (CMWSSB) is planning to buy new …
NEW DELHI: The Centre has approved a Rs.497-crore project for Varanasi under Mission Clean Ganga. The project, which comes under the National Ganga River Basin Authority, will set up a plant to treat 140 million litres of sewage a day, lay 34 km of sewers and rehabilitate existing systems, construct …
the Goa Sewerage Corporation appears a worried lot over the lukewarm response to the sewerage scheme in the Commercial Capital. More than a year after sewerage work commenced in Sirvodem-Margao with the Trenchless technology, ninety-five per cent of the work stands completed, but the Sewerage Corporation has nothing to cheer …
With the State government cold shouldering the ambitious plan to seek Rs 1000 crore loan to finance the sewerage scheme, the Goa Sewerage Corporation has set the process to obtain funds from Central agencies, JNRRUM and NRCD amounting to Rs 900 crore. Unlike the earlier proposal seeking loan to fund …
Smriti Kak Ramachandran NEW DELHI: The Delhi Jal Board will soon be conducting a census of a different kind. Instead of asking personal information, officials will quiz residents about the services offered to them by the water utility. The Jal Board wants to put an end to speculation over the …
