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. …
Growing population, industrialization, agricultural practices and urbanization have increased the water demand and hence the quantity of wastewater (ww). Availability of drinking water, including different components of daily per capita demand in developing countries, is becoming a serious issue to manage. To fight with growing water stress, reclamation and reuse …
Mumbai: The Environment Impact Assessment Authority has made it mandatory for projects spread over more than 20,000 sq metres (built-up area) to set aside a corpus to maintain, operate a sewage treatment plant for three to five years. Nair Singh, chairperson of the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board and member of …
Lohian: The polluters of rivers, be it bureaucrats or politicians who turn a blind eye to the environmental violations, must be brought to book and asked to compensate those who have lost their loved ones to pollution-related diseases like cancer. The people should vote only for those candidates who promise …
This paper outlines the integrated approach in decentralised planning, designing and execution of master plan 2025 for the treatment and disposal of sewage of Pune city.
Augmentation of the existing capacity of sewerage networks in the Capital Smriti Kak Ramachandran NEW DELHI: Even as the Delhi Jal Board is gearing up to get its ambitious project to resuscitate the Yamuna by constructing interceptor sewers off the ground, work related to augmentation of the existing capacity of …
MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Wednesday allowed the BMC to go ahead with its plans to set up sewage treatment plants and lay pipelines on coastal areas in the city, which house mangroves. A division bench of Justices J N Patel and Vijaya Kapse-Tahilramani asked the municipal corporation to …
Srinagar: Imagine the Dal Lake without its houseboats. If that left you with a sense of emptiness, get used to it. The future of the 1,200-odd houseboats, which have been a part of the famous water body in the heart of Srinagar for more than a century now, is under …
CUDDALORE: The slow progress on the underground drainage work in Cuddalore town is causing great inconvenience to the residents. The uncovered trenches dug for laying the pipelines have become veritable accident spots, according to M.Marudhavanan, general secretary of the Federation of All Residents Welfare Associations. Voicing concern over the delay …
K. Manikandan TAMBARAM: Notwithstanding the assurances of authorities that sewage treatment plants proposed as part of underground drainage project in the southern suburbs would be built on modern lines, residents fear that the facilities might irreversibly affect the environment in the areas. The Central and State governments recently selected six …
Indicted for killing fish: Thames Water, the largest water and wastewater services company in the UK, was recently ordered to pay US $180,643 by a UK court for accidentally releasing sodium hydroxide into the Wandle river in south west London in September, 2007. It turned the river milky and more …
Tripura capital plans to get water from 70 km THE Tripura government plans to transport water to Agartala from the Gumati river, which is 70-km away, through a water conduit. This is to meet the water shortage faced by about 500,000 people in Agartala. But the project has run into …
The project will ensure that the sewage from various drains that fall directly into the Yamuna, is diverted to the STPs where it will be treated first and then allowed to reach the river. A day after reports about the Delhi government being pulled up for not being able to …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The new sewerage treatment plant to be set up by the City Corporation at Muttathara for 107 MLD activated sludge process will be inaugurated by Chief Minister V.S.Achuthanandan on March 2. It will be one of the five projects by the Corporation that will see an official beginning within …
New Delhi: Lieutenant Governor Tejendra Khanna has announced he construction of sewage treatment plants (STPs) for 18 major drains flowing into the Yamuna. The Rs 1500-crore project, to be completed in 30 months, was announced at the flagging off ceremony of the Yamuna Rally at the Jamia Millia Islamia University, …
People come to the Bhima river in Pandharpur, Maharashtra, to rejoice. They leave behind a drain Pandharpur, a pilgrim town on the banks of the Bhima river in Maharashtra, hosts four religious yatras every year. Over two million people take part in these yatras, which celebrate, among other things, four …
The Delhi Jal Board wants to cut down on its electricity bills, earn carbon credits, and all this by utilising bio-gas that is produced at its Okhla sewage treatment plant here in the Capital. After successfully using bio-gas to produce electricity at the Rithala sewage treatment plant, the Jal Board …
