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. …
If anybody needed a reminder of how crippling bureaucracy can be, consider the campaign to clean up the sacred Yamuna River in Delhi. The river oozes through town like a putrid ribbon of black sludge. Its level of fecal bacteria is 10,000 times higher than what's deemed safe for bathing. …
Rajahmundry, June 30: The people of Rajahmundry are going to get major relief from the overflowing and stinking drains and inundation of several low-lying areas during rains as the civic authorities are going to take up an underground and storm water drainage network in the municipal limits. The project would …
This paper presents, result of laboratory experiments for the recovery of alum from sludge obtained from tertiary treatment of effluent collected from waste stabilization pond after grab sampling. The study was conducted on wastewater from a stabilization pond having capacity of 54 mld, which was treating municipal wastewater from Ujjain …
Urge Centre, State to find an alternative to sand in construction industry "Regulate inter-country, inter-State and inter-district transport of sand' "Construction of reservoirs across the Ponnai in Andhra Pradesh will hit Vellore' VELLORE: Farmers speaking at the monthly agriculturists' grievances day meeting at the Collectorate here on Friday complained of …
The Centre has approved projects for development of Fateh Sagar Lake in Udaipur at a cost of Rs.42 crore and improvement of the Walled City area in Jaipur at a cost of Rs.29 crore. The Centre will bear 70 per cent of the cost of the lake plan under the …
Cities in the developing countries have multiple modes of human and animal waste treatment and disposal that finally decide the overall impact on the urban ecosystem, and these have been studied for the city of Bangalore. Four modes are found, namely underground sewage systems, decentralized soak pits and septic tanks, …
With World Environment Day being celebrated on Thursday, the Yamuna river today projects a grim picture of increasing pollution levels. "The Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) load, an important indicator of pollution levels, has increased by 13 per cent over last year,' Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has said in its …
As per the directives, Tiverem-Orgao panchayat sarpanch along with panchas and residents from Tariwada-Marcel visited a company for an inspection of the effluent treatment plant. On Monday, Sarpanch Sanket Amonkar along with panchas and residents from Tariwada visited the site. "I am satisfied with the work done by the company, …
Ten of the largest rivers in the world are dying. Amongst these are the Ganga, Indus, Nile, Yangtze, Mekong and Danube that are the lifeline of millions of people. These rivers are not merely water sources but repositories of history, myths and cultural memories. And, the greatest threat to these …
Although the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has a long history of using risk-based approaches for regulatory purposes, pollutant limits for pathogens in biosolids are not currently based on quantitative risk assessments. The researchers developed and demonstrated a risk-based methodology for assessing the risk to human health from exposure to pathogens …
Look out of the window the next time you travel by road or by train anywhere in India. Hit a human settlement, and you will see, heaps of plastic coloured garbage apart, pools of dirty black water and drains that go nowhere. They go nowhere because we have forgotten a …
Two Tata Motors officials, water treatment plant in-charge BK Sarkar and DGM (safety) Samir K Ghatak, were arrested on Wednesday night from their residences. They were arrested on the charges of negligence in the chlorine gas leakage case at the company's water treatment plant earlier this week. Soon after chief …
Recycled treated or untreated wastewater represents an important health challenge in developing countries due to potential water related microbiological exposure. The aim of the study was to assess water quality and health implications in a Mexico City periurban agricultural area.
A former US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) scientist is suing the agency's officials and researchers at the University of Georgia in Athens, alleging that they manufactured and published false data to support the use of potentially harmful sewage sludges as fertilizers. The sludges have been linked to health problems in …
Some 30 years ago, as the United States began to tighten its environmental regulations on residential and industrial wastewater, operators of sewage-treatment plants embraced what seemed an eminently sensible idea. They decided to take the rich organic sludge left over after clean water is extracted and sell it to farmers …
Even as the Bharatiya Janata Party has expressed displeasure about the manner in which the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has undertaken sewerage treatment for the rivers in the city, the latter has sought fresh funds under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) for continuing the work. The civic …
A range of treatment is required to remove hazardous contaminants in wastewater before discharge. The article explains the measurements of the main parameters required in order to operate plants efficiently.
THE Corporation of Tiruchy is planning to set up a modern sewage treatment plant as part of the underground drainage (UGD) project within the city. The Tiruchy-Srirangam UGD project, along with the earlier one which is already functioning, is nearing completion. A third phase is also being drafted to accommodate …
The work on the 100-million-litre-a-day (MLD) seawater desalination plant at Minjur, on the northern outskirts of Chennai, is progressing expeditiously, Local Administration Minister M. K. Stalin informed the Assembly on Tuesday. Initiating the debate on the demand for grants to his department, he said the work would be completed this …
