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. …
In spite of lifting an average of 5 lakh litres of water everyday to meet the requirement of about 4,000 people, the rainwater harvest tank in the Yenepoya University premises at Deralakatte provides water for about 7 months in a year. Ronald Anil Fernandes takes a look at the novel …
Responsibility for water system services in a metropolitan area demands more extensive measures than just constructing and operating advanced treatment plants. It is necessary to have a good understanding of the water cycle and waters
CPCB has published a report on Comprehensive Environmental Assessment of Industrial Cluster in December 2009. In respect of industrial estates in the Maharashtra Chandrapur, Dombivali, Aurangabad, Navi Mumbai & Tarapur have been designated as critical /severe from environmental pollution angle. This publications includes the environmental status and action plan for …
CPCB has evolved a Comprehensive Environmental Pollution Index (CEPI) for 88 study areas with an objective of identifying polluted clusters or areas in order to take concerted action and to centrally monitor them at the national level to improve the current status of their environmental components such as air and …
In a bid to conserve water, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is gearing up to recycle sewage water and reuse it for non-potable purposes. If all goes as per plan, by 2015 the city will have seven sewage water treatment plants. The city generates 1,700 million litre daily (MLD) of …
JAIPUR: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot laid the foundation stones for a plant for cleaning of the Chambal river waters to be installed at a cost of Rs.149.59 crore under the National River Conservation Project as well as for three other projects in Kota on Wednesday. Six sewage pumping stations …
Oct. 19: The CAG is now looking into the expenditure and quality of the water treatment and sewage treatment plants installed at the Games Village at a cost of more than `60 crores. The cost of these plants, capable of treating 1 million gallon per day (mgd) of water and …
Presentation by Sunita Narain, Director of Centre for Science and Environment at the Plenary session of World Water Week at Stockholm on September 6, 2010. Focuses on decentralized wastewater management and says that localisation is the key & calls for affordable and sustainable approaches to waste management. Presentation given by …
Chandigarh: The Union minister for environment and forest Jairam Ramesh said Centre has cleared projects worth Rs 504 crore for cleaning of Sutlej and Beas rivers in various districts of Punjab. There are other projects worth Rs 104 crore which are currently under examination of Union environment ministry.
Polluting industries along a 500-km stretch of the Ganga between Kannauj and Varanasi might soon face the axe. Minister of state for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday told the chairman of the Central Pollution Control Board and member-secretaries of state pollution control boards to take immediate action to …
SRINAGAR, Aug 29: The Governor, N. N. Vohra, today visited the holy cave of Shri Amarnathji and the camps at Panjtarni, Sheshnag, Baltal and Domel to review the status of the ongoing special sanitation drive being carried out under his directions. He also discussed with the Board officials and security …
Water Resources Minister N.K. Premachandran said here on Thursday that the government had taken steps to protect the Pampa river. The Minister was inaugurating the work on the viewers' gallery at the finishing point of the Uthrittathi boat race near Sathram Kadavu on the banks of the Pampa at Aranmula. …
VILLUPURAM: Two sewage treatment plants will be set up at Ka. Kuppam and Erumanthal in Villupuram as part of an underground drainage project being executed by the Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage Board, according to Gagandeep Singh Bedi, Managing Director, TWAD Board. He was speaking to officials after inspecting …
Ranchi, July 28: In a landmark decision, the Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board today ordered Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC), Ranchi, to shut down its foundry forge plant
NEW DELHI: The Delhi Cabinet has given its approval for the Rs.1,358-crore Yamuna interceptor sewer project that seeks to cut pollution in the river. Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit explained after the Cabinet meeting that under the project 59 km of interceptor sewers would be constructed along three major drains and …
New Delhi: Some two years after it was first mooted, the Delhi cabinet on Tuesday approved the Rs 1,358 crore project for installation of interceptors in the three main drains emptying into the Yamuna. The cabinet approved it even though a senior minister who has been opposed to the project …
K. Lakshmi Keen on reducing carbon dioxide emission from its three new sewage treatment plants New facility:The upcoming sewage treatment plant in Nesapakkam. CHENNAI: Chennai Metrowater, as part of its efforts to become eco-friendly, is keen on reducing carbon dioxide emission from its new sewage treatment plants. For this purpose, …
Public protest against the setting up of plant in a residential area TUTICORIN: Protesting the construction of sewage treatment plant in a residential area, the public blocked traffic on George Road here on Monday for nearly four hours. A group of residents from wards 20, 34 and 35 recently submitted …
A COMMITTEE of Parliament visited the slaughterhouse in Meerut on June 10 to enquire if it was polluting the Kali Nadi river that flows through the city. A seasonal river that once provided irrigation and drinking water to 44 villages in Meerut district of Uttar Pradesh, Kali Nadi has turned …
A Committee of Parliament visited the slaughterhouse in Meerut on June 10 to enquire if it was polluting the Kali Nadi river that flows through the city. A seasonal river that once provided irrigation and drinking water to 44 villages in Meerut district of Uttar Pradesh, Kali Nadi has turned …
