Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
New Delhi: In its latest report on water pollution in rivers and lakes, the Comptroller and Auditor General has blamed the National River Conservation Authority, headed by the PM failing to effectively monitor projects. The CAG report, tabled in Parliament on Friday, said the NRCA failed to hold any review …
After CNG, the national capital is all set to run its public transport fleet on biogas. Ambitious as it may sound, but Delhi plans to run its buses on biogas. In collaboration with the Swedish government, the Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy plans to set up a biogas …
Special task force tea-ms of the Pollution Co-ntrol Board inspected 23 hospitals on Tuesday in Hyderabad. Ninety-six hospitals with 100 beds or more have been targeted for inspection this week. None of the hospitals inspected had valid au-thorisation to operate from the PCB. Neither did they have an efflue-nt treatment …
The Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) has decided to take legal action against two municipal committees (MCs) for allegedly failing to prevent sewage water from flowing into rivers and has directed two other civic bodies to stop all other work and focus on building sewage treatment plants immediately. The pollution …
The city improvement committee (CIC) of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) on Monday approved a Rs715-crore project to develop five new sewage treatment plants and augment capacity of five existing ones to ensure 100% treatment of sewage before releasing it into the river. CIC chairman, Arun Dhimdhime told reporters the …
New Delhi To find a way out of the logjam created by the slum rehabilitation project in the Capital, the Delhi government is now planning to create nearly 30,000 dormitory seats for accommodating migrant labourers. Land has already been identified and allotted by the government as part of a project …
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Thursday gave the green signal to the proposed third phase of cleaning the 22-km stretch of Yamuna river passing through Delhi. The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)-assisted Yamuna Action Plan (YAP) Phase III project in Delhi was approved under the Centrally sponsored scheme …
The central government today approved the Rs 1,656-crore phase-III of Yamuna Action Plan (YAP) for Delhi under which it is proposed to rehabilitate damaged trunk sewers to maximise use of sewage treatment plants (STPs) in Okhla, Kondli and Rithala, apart from construction of a new STP at Okhla. The Cabinet …
An estimated 10 million gallons of raw sewage flows directly into Rawal Dam every day. A new report available with the Capital Development Authority (CDA) prepared while keeping in view the feasibility of installing four treatment plants at Bari Imam and Bhara Kahu made this disclosure. “If you dip a …
KOCHI: With the High Court banning the dumping of waste, the city police are on their toes to catch the law breakers, including those who dump sewage waste on river side and in open areas. The police have registered more than 30 cases within two days of the High Court …
The Capital will soon get its first combined bio-gas plant that will generate enough gas to fuel 120 city buses. A memorandum of understanding has been signed between the Delhi Government and the Government of Sweden for production of compressed natural gas fuel using waste through modern bio-gas technology. On …
Now, waste will be used to produce CNG as per a joint initiative by the Sweden government and the ministry of new and renewable energy. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) in this regard was signed today between the Delhi Jal Board (DJB), Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL) and KG Renewable Ltd …
Raw industrial waste killing Yamuna, corroding sewer lines Untreated effluents from industries making their way into the sewers and eventually reaching the Yamuna are not only killing the river but are also said to be behind the rapid corrosion of the city's sewer lines. The Delhi Jal Board, which is …
Private firm to implement solid waste management project To deal with problems cropping up from the Ramaiyanpatti garbage dumping yard on the outskirts of the town, the Corporation has proposed to execute a solid waste management programme by involving a private agency, which will convert the degradable refuse into bio …
In Kathmandu you can smell the Bagmati before you see it; in Sundarijal you can hear this river as it cascades down from its headwaters to nourish the paddy fields in the plains below the Shivapuri hills before it finds its way into the city, much abused and yet revered. …
The Bagmati loses its way in Kathmandu amid political vacuum and urban chaos. The chaos and urban sprawl of today’s Kathmandu have taken a serious toll on the stretch of the Bagmati and its tributaries that meet in the city. In the absence of clear guidelines regulating river water use …
New Delhi: Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) buses will soon be running on fuel derived from vegetable waste and sludge from treated sewage. The Centre has struck a deal with the Swedish government to set up a compressed biofuel plant at Delhi Jal Board’s Keshopur sewage treatment plant (STP). The fuel …
The Ganga Action Programme is a very ambitious scheme. It aims to clean one of the world’s longest rivers using sophisticated and expensive technologies. But the project does not sufficiently recognise that the river flows through one of the poorest and the most densely populated regions of the world. Municipalities …
Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda on Wednesday said development was necessary but it cannot not be at the cost of society and environment. Addressing a gathering at Jnana Jyothi Auditorium on the occasion of Foundation Day of the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB), Gowda said investments in the …
WHILE waste from drug factories continues to be a major concern for the environment, not much attention is paid to pollution that results from household consumption of drugs. Very few models exist to trace the trajectory of drugs and determine their fate. Now scientists from Autonomous University of Barcelona in …
