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. …
Environment ministry admits bacteria is major river pollutant MAJOR rivers in India have high bacterial contamination, the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (moef) said in a press release dated December 24, 2008. Yamuna and Ganga top the list of most polluted rivers (see graph below). Bacterial contamination in water …
Chittaranjan Tembhekar | TNN Navi Mumbai: Three sewage treatment plants, constructed in Navi Mumbai with sophisticated Austrian technology, have started converting the entire city
Smaller local treatment plants in place of a large central facility allow for considerable economical advantages including the reduction of costly collection infrastructure as well as providing the opportunity for smaller incremental-as-needed expansion phasing. Significant environmental and practical advantages also exist, including the possibility of reclaimed water re-use or disposal …
With the technological advances of small plant performance and reliability, decentralized wastewater treatment plants have now become eminently feasible.
Employees of the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) have decided to oppose the proposal of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to take over a sewage treatment plant (STP) with vacant land and buildings in Baghajatin. In 2004, when Mr KS Rajendrakumar was the principal secretary of urban development department, it …
Pilot project to tackle shortages, future increase in water demand The Delhi Jal Board (DJB) will soon start a pilot project to recycle wastewater, in a bid to tackle the growing shortage of water in the Capital, and the demand that is expected during the Commonwealth Games in 2010. Apart …
Greeshma Gopal Giri | ENS Chennai, AS sewage treatment plants (STPs) have become mandatory in large construction sites having no alternative sewerage network, residents in high-rise buildings on the outskirts of the city have raised concern over the operation and maintenance of the plants. Overflow of sewage due to frequent …
Court told Delhi water utility officers THE Delhi High Court has sentenced a former chief executive officer of the Delhi Jal Board and two other officers to two weeks in jail for not repairing sewer lines in the capital and letting the sewage flow into the Yamuna without treatment. The …
Chief Minister, Digambar Kamat has announced that the government would come out with a scheme to subsidise sewage connections to the citizens of Margao as he made an impassioned plea to the household owners to connect their septic tanks and soakpits to the sewage plant and avoid a health hazard. …
Detailed project report on the Yamuna Interceptor Sewer Project prepared by EIL.The project will ensure that 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. The objectives of the Interceptor Sewerage …
Owing to its enormous construction and maintenance costs, the management of wastewater in many urban centres of developing countries via a centralised wastewater management approach is very difficult. Often, untreated wastewater is directly discharged into adjacent natural water courses, causing a grave threat to both public health and the aquatic …
MARGAO, NOV 12 Foul odour emanating from the sewage treatment plant brought PWD Minister, Churchill Alemao to the plant site at Sirvodem-Margao on Wednesday evening. Expressing concern over the state-of-affairs, the minister later decided to convene a high-level meeting of concerned officials to find way and means to curb the …
Hyderabad, Nov. 5: Thousands of families in the cantonment area are being forced to maintain separate septic tanks for sanitation. Though officials say that 75 per cent of the 65,000 households in 300 colonies are connected to the sewerage network which includes the underground drainage and septic tanks, only about …
The objectives of the Interceptor Sewerage System Project are to provide a commercially, technically viable and feasible solution on a priority basis that can be provided within a short span of time which is effective in lowering the pollution in Yamuna River and improving water quality making it best fit …
R. Srikanth CHENNAI: Once known for its rich biodiversity and as a fresh water source, the Pallikaranai marsh today spews out toxic substances because of the dumping and burning of garbage at the Perungudi dump yard set up on a portion of the marsh. The Perungudi Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) …
