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 …
METRO Water (MW) has created a mess. Thanks to its decision to go against expert advice, some parts of the city today face a problem of `stink'. The exercise was to lay interceptor sewers to increase the pumping potential of the sewage pumping station and the treatment plant. Experts said …
Thirty five cities in India are pumping as much as 7,604 million litres of sewage daily straight into rivers, notably the Ganga, and the sea. A new report by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) on water consumption and sewage disposal patterns shows that the biggest cities in India are …
The Airports Authority of India will undertake a Rs 30-crore project to solve the waterlogging problem at the city airport. The project is based on the recommendations of Jadavpur University
In most developing countries wastewater treatment systems have very low coverage or function poorly, resulting in large-scale water pollution and the use of poor-quality water for crop irrigation, especially in the vicinity of urban centres. This can pose significant risks to public health, particularly where crops are eaten raw. Wastewater …
Sri Lanka and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed a USD 100 million loan agreement recently to launch the Greater Colombo Wastewater Management Project. The project aims to upgrade the sewerage infrastructure under the Colombo Municipal Council in the Greater Colombo Area and strengthen its institutional and operational capacity as …
THE Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) was launched in December 2005 by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government in keeping with its Common Minimum Programme. It was a form of reform that urban areas in the country desperately needed before they spiralled into haphazard and over-flowing cities. The …
The parliamentary standing committee on LGRD ministry yesterday asked Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) to immediately stop dumping sewage into the river Buriganga, which is already biologically dead due to pollution. The parliamentary body directed Wasa to jointly work with Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) and other authorities concerned …
This new CPCB study on water consumption and sewage disposal patterns finds that 70% of the total municipal sewage and effluent from over 900 cities and towns are being discharged untreated into rivers, which are a major source of drinking water. The status of water supply and sanitation significantly indicate …
NEW DELHI: Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit inaugurated the Delhi State Spatial Data Infrastructure Project at the Delhi Pavilion in the ongoing India International Trade Fair at Pragati Maidan here on Thursday. The geo-portal with geo-spatial data of the Capital has been developed by the Information Technology Department of the Delhi …
MUMBAI: In a bid to bring about greater transparency in the utilisation of funds allotted for urban development projects, the civic body will video-tape its under construction buildings and post it on its portal. Agencies will soon be appointed for the video-shoots. The BMC took this decision following a state …
The Centrally Empowered Committee (CEC), the forest panel of the Supreme Court, has turned down a Commonwealth Games related proposal of the Public Works Department
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has made a projection of Rs 4279.4 crore before the Thirteenth Finance Commission (TFC) for the all-round development of urban bodies. In its memorandum to the Commission, the State Government has sought Rs 1063.4 crore for development of sewerage system in the towns while Rs 1000 …
Baba Bakala: More than 90 per cent villages in the state have been facing an uphill task to ensure proper disposal of sewage even as the state government is busy making arrangements to ensure proper disposal of wastewater in these villages on a priority basis. Meanwhile, the state government has …
LUCKNOW: It would take more than just installing a sewage treatment plant (STP) to infuse a fresh lease of life into the dying Gomti. At least, in the opinion of Magsasay award winner, Rajendra Singh, popularly known as `water man of India'. Singh, who was in the state capital on …
Chhatarpur: The ill managed drainage system causes the drains to overflow even after light rain in the district headquarter Chhatarpur. Torrential rainfall has been registered in the district headquarter and adjoining areas in the afternoon on Sunday. The roads were deluged and drains swollen after the downpour for half-an-hour. People …
There are many factors that cause the slow pace of construction of 8-km elevated road on Barapulla drain. To begin with, this is a first road of its kind in the national Capital requiring special technology, said Commonwealth Games Project, Circle CW 11, manager, Sarvagya Kumar Srivastava.
Maulshree-Seth Following success of sewage surveillance for wild poliovirus in Mumbai, the Centre is now planning to go ahead with a similar surveillance in Delhi. The surveillance was introduced through the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) in Mumbai in 2001 and since then, the city has been able to …
