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 …
Dhanya Matsa | ENS Chennai, THE Chennai Metropolitan and Sewerage Board has asked all commercial buildings to install a filter system to prevent solid material from entering the sewerage system. Else their sewage connection will be disconnected, the board has warned. THE 7 COMMANDMENTS Do not open manhole doors to …
The sewage treating capacity of the KWSB treatment plants has shrunk to a mere 60 million gallons a day as one of its treatment plants has abruptly stopped functioning. This means that a huge quantity of about 340 million gallons of untreated sewage
Environmentalists warn that invasive species disgorged from ships' ballast tanks have put the Great Lakes near an ecological tipping point. But rules enacted this year require all inbound ships to flush their ballast tanks with seawater, allaying most fears about more invasions of the five lakes, which collectively hold one-fifth …
The objective of this study is to find out the optimum OLR at which the UASB reactor can be operated in treating domestic sewage and sugar mill effluent, in conjunction at a predetermined optimum mixing ratio of 75:25.
Ludhiana, September 25 Each household in Rajianikalan village, near Jagraon, has contributed Rs 1,500 for a water supply project started under the World Bank-aided scheme. The scheme will cover 3,200 villages at a cost of Rs 1,280 crore. Work has also started in nearby villages of Marsianbhaike, Chaka and Ramgarh. …
Mysore, DHNS: The State government has convened a meeting of Commissioners of all urban development authorities in Bangalore on September 1 to formulate an
Finding parking space in the city is becoming an impossible task and with the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) yet to furnish a list of parking sites along the 2,183 notified commercial and mixed land use stretches
Emissions derived from human digestion of food and subsequent excretion are very relevant from a life cycle perspective, and yet they are often omitted from food life cycle assessment (LCA) studies. This article offers a simple model to allocate and include these emissions in LCAs of specific foodstuffs. The model …
Hyderabad, July 27: The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB;) will take up two major projects at a cost of over Rs 432 crore as part of infrastructure development under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). While a sewerage master plan will be implemented in the …
For small-town India to become big, it will have to boast that it doesn't want to be another Shanghai. Small-town India is about to explode. But the question is if these cities will be able to manage this growth or will they implode from within
Sangrur :Residents of Punia Colony on the Haripura road here have been leading a miserable life due to the accumulation of dirty water, leaking from some manholes caused by the choking of sewer lines in front of their houses for the past many days. Due to choked sewer lines, dirty …
The present investigation deals with the analysis of physico-chemical characteristics, concentration of heavy metals and textural analysis of sediments in Poovar estuary of Kerala during the period 2004-2005. Three sampling stations were selected and sediments were collected for the study.
: As a part of the ongoing polio virus control and environmental surveillance activities, the Sindh health department is considering a proposal to test sewage specimens to be collected from various parts of Karachi and others parts of Sindh. The samples are proposed to be examined in collaboration with certain …
The citizens of Greater Hyderabad can boast of having good healthcare services, international airport, world class research and educational institutions among other things. But when it comes to monsoon, the city roads turn into virtual swimming pools. Even 11 mm or 1.1 cm of rainfall in an hour inundates the …
Office of the Executive Engineer, Works Division XXI (PHE), PWD, Fatorda has invited applications from the residents of Vasco at the localities wherever sewerage network is provided to avail the facility to get connected to the sewerage system under the "Subsidized Sewerage Connection Scheme'. Under the scheme the sewer connection …
The jet-cum-suction machine that could have reduced the waterlogging in Howrah. Picture by Gopal Senapati A jet-cum-suction machine, worth Rs 24 lakh, has been lying idle at the Howrah Municipal Corporation, while several stretches of the town remain inundated. Civic engineers said the accumulated water could have been drained out …
The first case of dengue this season was reported from the Karol Bagh area today. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) staff spent almost the entire day in sanitising the area. The MCD has claimed that it was prepared to handle the situation. The administration has even started implementing measures …
