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. …
A major breach in the Yamuna flowing near the Bawana area in Outer Delhi on Sunday forced the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) authorities to shut down its 140-MGD (million gallons a day) water treatment plant (WTP) at Haiderpur and the 40-MGD Nangloi WTP, the main source of water supply to …
Pune While the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has to invest crores of rupees to set up a Sewage Treatment Plant (STP), its own minor project on a nullah (drain) near Sinhagad Road is treating water not using electricity, but through natural methods. The civic body, local citizens and a research …
The United Nations reminded all countries on March 22, World Water Day, that humanity continues to impose a staggering burden on rivers, lakes, and deltas each year in the form of pollution. What the UN has highlighted in its report titled
Pune The Pune Municipal Corporation is inter-connecting sewage treatment plants to meet its target of 100 per cent treatment of waste generated every day, after it hit hurdles particularly in the morning, when waste generated is maximum. Two years ago, the civic body had started work on five sewage treatment …
NEW DELHI: Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, who is also the chairperson of the Delhi Jal Board, on Thursday gave her approval for the DJB's Plan outlay of Rs.1,624.37 crore for the financial year 2010-11. Of the sanctioned amount of the annual budget, Rs.905 crore has been earmarked for the water …
New Delhi: In its budget for the year 2010-11 with a total plan outlay of Rs 1,624.37, Delhi Jal Board (DJB) seems to have accorded a significant amount to the cleaning of the Yamuna with Rs 595 crore for sewerage and Rs 124.47 crore for YAP-II. Another Rs 905 crore …
Due to increasing environmental concerns in the wastewater treatment sector, the environmental impacts of organic waste disposal procedures require careful evaluation. However, the impacts related to the return of organic matter to agricultural soils are difficult to assess. The goals of this study are to assess the environmental impacts of …
Pune Though the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) implemented a project that drew accolades for generating power from garbage, it has been found to be doing little to pull out enough power from a special turbine set up at the Naidu sewage treatment plant, which is able to generate power from …
Off to a start: Work being launched on modern integrated compost yard at Venkatamangalam near Vandalur on Wednesday. TAMBARAM: Effluents discharged from common sewage treatment plants will be pure enough to be used in industrial units, gardening and other purposes, Niranjan Mardi, Secretary, Department of Municipal Administration and Water Supply, …
Until five years ago very few people in Mumbai were aware of the Mithi river running through it. Then, in the monsoon of 2005 it flooded, drowning 500 people. With the devastation it erupted into public consciousness, dark and stinking. Ever since the authorities have been trying to revive it. …
When you visit the beautiful green grounds covering an area close to 48 acres in Gorai, in the western suburbs of Mumbai, by the side of a creek overlooking Asia
Until five years ago very few people in Mumbai were aware of the Mithi river running through it. Then, in the monsoon of 2005 it flooded, drowning 500 people. With the devastation it erupted into public consciousness, dark and stinking. Ever since the authorities have been trying to revive it. …
What should and can be done to clean the Yamuna? What is the strategy for business-unusual so that we can spend more money but this time get returns of a living and breathing river. One, we need to change the art of pollution control. First, we must understand that rivers …
THE Delhi Development Authority has been given environmental permission to go ahead with a Rs 34 crore housing project in Vasant Kunj. The rider: the project should have its own sewage treatment plant on site, with the housing society not only cleaning up its own sewage but also providing recycled …
Massive Coliform Count Makes Ganga A Virtual Drain In Kanpur: Plan Panel Dhananjay Mahapatra | TNN New Delhi: Diehard devotees may not believe this. But it
After Municipal Corporation of Faridabad, the Gurgaon civic body has also purchased a Rs 65-lakh super suction pump and a dumping tanker to free sewage lines of sludge. According to Gurgaon municipal commissioner Rajesh Khullar, the machine was first used in Chakkapur village on trial basis. The corporation now plans …
Move to set up 3 more plants in a year's time. About 100 million litres a day of treated water, equivalent to 10,000 tankers, will be sold to Mumbai's booming real estate sector and other industries. Rahul Wadke Seven water treatment and infrastructure companies have expressed interest in setting up …
Navelim villagers want land acquisition process withdrawn MARGAO, MARCH 14 Navelim villagers on Sunday have resolved to oppose tooth and nail government
