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. …
The Delhi Jal Board in association with the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) organised the first consultative workshop on formulating a water policy for Delhi on Wednesday. Chief executive officer of DJB Ramesh Negi spoke on the need to bring about effective policy instruments through consultative …
New Delhi: In the first step towards streamlining and managing Delhi’s water, Delhi Jal Board and Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) organized the first consultative workshop on formulating ‘Water Policy for Delhi’ on Wednesday. Stakeholders from agencies like Delhi Development Authority, Central Pollution Control Board and …
CAG says Coal India also lagging in corporate social responsibility and effluent treatment Coal India is running 191 mines without any environmental clearance, the Comptroller & Auditor General (CAG) said in a report on the company, which says delays in green clearances has severely hit its output. “Out of 239 …
The new ban, covering 760 square miles, makes the entire Sound a no-discharge zone; Connecticut secured the same designation for its portion of the Sound in 2007. The ban, which goes into effect on Thursday, will require an estimated 12,200 recreational and small commercial vessels to dispose of their sewage, …
Having finally announced completion of its sewer rehabilitation works in North and West Delhi last week after a delay of more than a year, the Delhi Jal Board remains answerable to the residents who still complain of no relief after the completion of the ambitious Rs 370 crore project proposed …
For more than two decades, Huta Ram Baidya has led the Save Bagmati River campaign. An affable, octogenarian activist and Nepal’s first agricultural engineer, his views have been widely circulated in the country’s regional language press, radio, television and on websites. He tells Aditya Batra that the river’s extreme degradation …
One of your more quoted statements is that the Bagmati is dirty because there is too much money flowing in it. Bagmati is nature. She needs to be honoured and feared like nature. Feared like a teacher. She does not like money. Hindus believe when they die, they will be …
The sewage treatment plants in Gurgaon are unable to handle the daily load, taking away the gloss of impressive residential highrises and ultra-modern office buildings of the city. Pools of sewage water from overflowing drains is a common site across the city, as officials say the sewage treatment plants (STPs) …
CHENNAI: The residents of Avadi Municipality will soon be receiving drinking water to quench their thirst and a sewerage network to dispose off the waste water by November 2011, according to Metro Water Managing Director Dr K Gopal. The water supply and underground sewerage scheme worth `261.89 crore which includes …
Sewage routinely contaminates the Hudson River, according to a report released on Tuesday after four years of water testing in which one-fifth of the water samples indicated that the river was unsuitable for swimming and other recreation. The study, issued by the environmental group Riverkeeper, underscores how a big sewage …
CHENANI: In an effort to quench the thirst of the 4.42-lakh people in the Ambattur municipality, the Chennai Metro Water Supply and Sewerage Board (CMWSSB) will build 22 overhead tanks and lay water pipelines at a cost of Rs 268 crore by November. Managing director of CMWSSB Dr K Gopal …
Pursuant to the decisions taken in the meeting held on August 19, 2009 chaired by the Secretary, Cabinet Coordination, Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi and communication received from the Joint Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), Shri Rajiv Guaba, for conducting a detailed field investigation on the issue of Pollution …
Karnataka State Pollution Control Board has come with Sewage Treatment Guidebook in the interest of general public. This guidebook takes the reader through the various units, operations and processes in a typical Extended Aeration Biological Treatment Plant.
GURGAON: The pollution control board of Haryana has issued show-cause notices to the municipal corporation of Gurgaon (MCG), HUDA and HSIIDC, along with 30 other city-based industrial units, for having failed the board's routine pollution check. The effluent samples taken from sewage treatment plants (STPs) maintained by HUDA and MCG, …
As many as 41 of the 49 samples collected by the Haryana Pollution Control Board from industrial establishments in Gurgaon were found to have exceeded permissible limits. These included several government undertakings, including sewage treatment plants (STPs) maintained by the Gurgaon Municipal Corporation and Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA), and …
A massive tree plantation drive in the city will begin soon to achieve the national target of 33 per cent green cover by 2012. Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit launched an elaborate scheme
