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. …
PWD Minister Churchill Alemao on Sunday unveiled plans to boost availability of drinking water in Bardez and Salcete within the next 8-9 months. Admitting that Bardez has been facing water disruptions due to leakages, Alemao said the PWD has sanctioned a 50 mld water treatment plant at Assonora and the …
Hyderabad, Nov. 8: Plans are afoot to clean up the waters of the lakes. Mr Zafarullah Khan, executive engineer (lakes department) with the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA), says there are plans to set up 40-odd sewage treatment plants so that untreated sewage is not dumped in the lakes. He …
NEW DELHI: Union Minister of State for Environment and Forest Jairam Ramesh on Thursday criticised the Delhi Government for its failure to treat the sewage that has been flowing into the Yamuna and polluting the river. Speaking at a function organised by the Delhi Government to launch
Buoyed by the success of generating power from sewage, an urban local body here has sought carbon credit for its green gas project. "We are not only been able to reduce the green house gas emission but also minimising the grid power consumption through our sewage-based power plants. Now we …
When a world-class casino, hotel and spa resort in California wanted to build an efficient and easy to operate wastewater treatment plant, it chose an innovative technology that could handle high-strength wastewater from the hotel and the large weekly variations in flows and loadings. The technology, a combination of sequencing …
Composite Correction Programme (CCP) is a water treatment plant optimization program that improves water treatment operation with limited capital investment by optimizing particle removal from water treatment plants. It has been reported that many microbial pathogens, particularly Cryptosporidium, are recalcitrant to disinfection due to their resistance to chlorine or escapes …
Mumbai The rule will be applicable to all bulk consumers in the city, say BMC officials Five star hotels in Colaba and Churchgate may soon have to buy water that is recycled at sewage water treatment plants set up by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). In a bid to avoid …
LUCKNOW: It would take more than just installing a sewage treatment plant (STP) to infuse a fresh lease of life into the dying Gomti. At least, in the opinion of Magsasay award winner, Rajendra Singh, popularly known as `water man of India'. Singh, who was in the state capital on …
Villagers of Bambolim today compelled Goa Medical College (GMC) authorities to repair the overflowing chamber of its Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) as stinking sewage water made its way into the village. Stinking sewage water has been flowing into village for the last couple of days however the authorities woke up …
NEW DELHI: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has expressed doubts over the capacity of the proposed institutional framework to carry out cleaning of the Ganga and ensure bringing down of pollution as planned by the National Ganga River Basin Authority. Speaking at the first meeting of the Authority here on …
KOCHI: To tackle the growing septic tank waste, the Kochi Corporation has decided to start two new sewage treatment plants in the city. The tender procedures of the plants, which are to be started in West Kochi and East Kochi areas, have started. The agency for constructing the plants will …
Rescuers glided through several city neighborhoods in fishing boats and canoes on Tuesday, searching water-logged houses for trapped residents and abandoned belongings, after heavy rains flooded Georgia and other parts of the Southeast. The deluge left eight people dead, dozens stranded and thousands without electricity. As the mucky red-brown waters …
Proper streetlighting, provision of clean drinking water and functional sewage treatment plants might still elude many of those living in urbanised Gurgaon, but may soon turn into reality for 34 villages around the Millennium City. The Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon has engaged a private company to conduct a village-wise survey …
Lieutenant Governor Tejendra Khanna plans to develop the 22-kilometre stretch of the riverbanks in Delhi as a biodiversity zone, Newsline has learnt. This puts to rest apprehensions of real estate development on the Yamuna floodplains, especially after the Commonwealth Games Village got a go-ahead from the Supreme Court recently. According …
Taking into consideration garbage that would be generated from schools coming up in the integrated school complex at Cujira in Bambolim for which work has begun, separate garbage and sewerage treatment plants have been mooted. Education Minister Babush Monserrate said the plants would be built by both Alcon Constructions and …
The article focuses on endogenous institutional factors in the water sector and the challenges and opportunities to an alternative integrated management approach in Vietnam, particularly in the context of its political legacy, current development goal, and Doi Moi reforms, using Saigon River as a case study. It investigates three institutional …
