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 …
The current study is on East Calcutta Wetland (ECW) which is a model for multi-use resource recovery system with activities like pisciculture and agriculture. The entire city's soluble waste is disposed into the raw sewage canals which finally drains into the shallow, flat bottom fish ponds called Bheri. These sewage …
The Delhi government has cleared a Rs 1,950-crore project to tap drains carrying sewage from colonies not connected to the city sewers. Interceptor sewers to be used for tapping is seen by the government as a temporary solution to the problem of untreated water reaching the Yamuna. The government plans …
treated domestic wastewater helps production of carp fish. The nutrients in the sewage are used to develop fish food organisms. Fish food is generally grown in fresh water and the joint research by scientists from Bhubaneswar and Kolkata says that using sewage will help save freshwater. The treated sewage makes …
Civic agencies such as the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board have expressed reservations about the project. In a letter to the director general of Sindh Environmental Protection Agency, the deputy managing director (planning) of the board said: "
Sewer ark http://www.sewerhistory.org/ Sanitation doesn't usually inspire literature; nor is it an attractive proposition for academics. Well, not usually. But over the last 15 years, Jon Schladweiler has made it his mission to prove that sludge indeed has been the artist's muse, if only rarely. With links to F M …
When Dr Marc Stollreiter, a first-time German visitor to Kashmir, went on a shikara ride on the picturesque Dal lake recently, he was shocked by what he saw beneath its tranquil waters. "We found huge quantities of syringes and needles. We saw mounds of rotting garbage. We saw tourists throwing …
East Calcutta Wetland (ECW) is an example of wise use of cities solid and liquid waste through integrated resource recovery, mainly for pisciculture, vegetable as well as paddy cultivation and manure production. Amaranthus caudatus, Amaranthus blithum and Spinacia oleracea grown at ECW were analyzed for their accumulation of elements using …
A solid-phase extraction (SPE) and liquid chromatographic (LC) method was developed for the determination of selected fluoroquinolone (FQ) drugs including ofloxacin, norfloxacin, and ciprofloxacin in municipal wastewater samples. Extraction of the FQs was carried out with a weak cation exchanger SPE cartridge, the Oasis WCX. The cartridge was washed with …
Hyderabad has submitted a wish list worth Rs 20,017 crore to MoUD, under JNNURM. The ministry's central sanctioning and monitoring committee has approved Rs 379 crore and released Rs 33.22 crore as the first instalment. Hyderabad Urban Agglomeration's (HUA's) population is likely to increase from 5.7 million in 2001 to …
The Chinese government recently passed a law barring sewage or chemical waste discharges into agricultural areas, in an effort to improve food safety in the country. The law will take effect from November 1. It came in response to a series of food-safety incidents caused by air, soil or water …
Can a town be overweight? Shimla, capital of Himachal Pradesh, has managed to become just that. The load, as always, has been piling on over the years. In this case, storey by storey. The erstwhile summer capital of the British empire, once hailed as the Queen of Hill Stations, has …
hunting appeal rejected: Pro-country sports organisation Countryside Alliance (CA) lost its case against British government's ban on hunting. The court ruled against CA's claim that the Hunting Act
The current pipe-drains-plant strategy is not working. Therefore, more of the same, without reworking its approach, will mean just more money down the drain. The Yamuna is Delhi's shame. But its pollution management is its government's shame. It cannot be acceptable that we have spent money, time and energy, but …
• Ensure all waste, legal and illegal, is trapped and treated to keep the drain clean • Augment and optimise treatment facilities, where needed, to treat this waste. Appropriate technologies of scale (centralised or local) should be adopted • Ensure treated effluent is reused and not mixed with untreated effluent …
A split plot field experiment was conducted to study the comparative effect of sewage wastewater and ground water and of six doses of basal nitrogen on the performance of triticale. Sewage wastewater irrigation resulted in increased growth and yield of the crop. Protein and carbohydrate yields were also increased under …
In October 2003, the managers of Kovalam beach near Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, conceived a plan to create a zero-waste, eco-friendly beach. They targeted the waste tourists dump on the sands; that hasn't cleaned the beach up. The real problem lies
if sustained restoration plans are not put in place, the beautiful Kodaikanal lake will be dead soon. The artificial lake on a 26-hectare marshy land has been utterly neglected and is fast degrading. The water level of the lake with a perimeter of 4.8 km has receded from 11 metres …
The world is becoming increasingly urbanised with majority of the population residing and working in cities. While increasing urbanisation and economic growth can provide significant benefits, they also present a range of challenges with regard to the escalating resource use and today we witness one of our most important natural …
