Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Dr. Amit Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 28/05/2025. The applicant has raised a grievance against setting up of a tyre pyrolysis plant by M/s Adideva Carbon LLP. According to the applicant, the tyre pyrolysis plant has …
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 …
Bangalore will be hosting the first ever ‘World Water Summit’ from February 1 to 3, 2012, in an effort to create an interactive forum to facilitate exchange of ideas and display latest technologies in sustaining water resources. The summit will be jointly organised by the Centre for Sustainable Development (CSD), …
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, …
New Delhi: Faced with a growing gap between demand and supply, Delhi government is now working on an ambitious proposal of placing parallel pipelines for providing potable and treated waste water for flushing of toilets, washing of cars and other purposes. The city government has identified several urban areas where …
New Delhi: In a bid to decrease its carbon footprint and to conserve groundwater, Delhi Metro plans to have rainwater harvesting system in every station in the third phase. A Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) spokesperson said, “The system will be used to replenish the groundwater table in areas where …
Mithapur, being a water scarcity region, uses spent cooling seawater instead of raw water for dilution of HCT underflow. Per day approx. 2700 KL of seawater is consumed in the plant.
The first CETP (Common Effluent Treatment Plant) for heterogeneous chemical industries wastewater has been established by Jeedimetla Effluent Treatment Ltd (JETL) and is in operation since 1989 in Jeedimetla Industrial Estate (JIE), Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy entrusted ADaRSH with the formulation and development of guidelines and benchmarks for Large Developments including educational institute campuses, housing societies and townships, residential campuses, etc. The broad objectives of the study are: To study and analyse trends in large campus development guidelines both …
Ranchi, Aug. 21: Arjun Munda has set his eyes on adopting a scientific approach involving experts for optimal use of natural resources, remodelling of the Jharkhand cadre and according a proactive role to the state planning board, as his government gets ready to submit proposal for the Twelfth Five Year …
Ajit Gulabchand, CMD, HCC talks about balancing environment sustainability with infrastructure growth We are a rich country, with poor people. We need to bring people out of poverty and bring prosperity. Now while doing that a lot of damage is done to the environment which actually affects everybody. So, how …
A federal panel sketched out its first vision of a regulatory roadmap for the booming shale natural gas industry on Thursday, urging more transparency on the use of chemicals and more careful treatment of waste water. In a report closely watched by leading energy companies who fear higher costs from …
KRISHNAGAR, 7 AUG: The state public health engineering department (PHE) today started two water supply projects at Kashiadanga in Nakashipara and Bhagyabantapur in Kaliganj to provide arsenic-free drinking water to the residents of the areas. The public health engineering minister, Mr Subrata Mukherjee, and minister for commerce and industries Mr …
All around Stephen Askew was raw sewage, eight feet deep, flooding a crippled waste-treatment plant in Harlem. But Mr. Askew never had a choice; he had to go in. It was three days after a catastrophic fire damaged the plant and began sending waste into the city’s waterways, forcing the …
CHENNAI: Finance minister O Panneerselvam on Thursday announced two major initiatives for Chennai city —the Chennai Mega City Development Mission (CMCDM), to be implemented at Rs 500 crore, and augmentation of the reservoir capacity by 4.20 tmcft at a cost of Rs 1,851 crore. Presenting the Budget for 2011-12 in …
A Project that could have taken a few more years to be resolved due to the inter-state water sharing dispute between Delhi and Haryana, the Munak carrier-line channel, is finally on the fast track. The Delhi Jal Board (DJB) has sanctioned Rs 50 crore as payment to Haryana immediately, against …
The paper reports the results of an empirical study on the profitability of rice cultivation in the East Calcutta Wetlands region where untreated sewage water from the city of Calcutta, India, is used for the purpose of irrigation during the winter/summer crop. The results show that plots using wastewater containing …
KOLKATA, 15 JULY: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will supply 235 Million Gallon Per day (MGD) of filtered water to the city, mayor Mr Sovan Chatterjee, said today. He was speaking during the handing over of the Garden Reach Water Treatment Plant from Kolkata Metropolitan Water and Sanitation Authority (KMWSA) …
