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 …
People and planet are the two additional Ps that keep CFOs busy, along with the third P of profit, and Gopal Mahadevan, CFO, Thermax India, would ideally like to be applauded for his efforts on the financial front. But then, the Pune-headquartered energy and environment solutions provider has been doing …
In certain areas of Varanasi city, waste water from Dinapur sewage treatment plant is used for irrigating vegetable plots. We quantified the concentrations of heavy metals, viz. Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn in soil, vegetables and the waste water used for irrigation. The waste water used for irrigation …
Rapid and alarming deterioration in natural environment has become a matter of great concern for the entire globe. Exploding population, industrialization, man-made pollution, loss of forests, etc are responsible for this disastrous ecological scenario. Carbon dioxide emissions are at historic highs and rising. Bamboo is emerged as a way out …
Landscape irrigation system is a combination of different irrigation system as suitable for various crop covering and requirement. Some misconceptions and doubts are still rising in the mind of the many people about using waste/ETP water for landscape.
The State government will encourage industries to use treated water for their use in the coming days. A measure resorted to by the Department of Industries and Commerce following the difficulty in fulfiling water requirement of industries in the State. Aerospace industries coming up near Bengaluru International Airport has held …
Water availability per capita in India is reaching critical levels, and with a much faster pace of urbanisation expected in the coming decades, treatment of waste water for returning to rivers and reuse in industry assumes great importance. Navi Mumbai has shown the way. Today the population of Navi Mumbai …
Ranesh Nair, Isher J Ahluwalia : Water availability per capita in India is reaching critical levels, and with a much faster pace of urbanisation expected in the coming decades, treatment of waste water for returning to rivers and reuse in industry assumes great importance. Navi Mumbai has shown the way. …
Blames Increase in Chloride Level Of Drain Water New Delhi: After residents of several north, central and west Delhi areas complained of receiving foul and discoloured water, Delhi Jal Board (DJB) officials on Friday said that the level of chloride in water being supplied to the Wazirabad and Chandrawal water …
Mumbai The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is looking to turn its under-construction water recycling plant in Ghatkopar into a source of sustained additional revenue. The plant is expected to be operational in two years. A senior civic official said the BMC could earn upto Rs 18 lakh per day as …
Mumbai: South Mumbai MP Milind Deora has urged the Centre to fund the proposed desalination plant in Mumbai. In a letter written to prime minister Manmohan Singh, Deora has said that measures taken by the civic authority are not proving to be enough and more is needed to be done …
Multipurpose stadium boasts of world-class infrastructure NEW DELHI: Union Sports and Youth Affairs Minister M. S. Gill and Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Friday jointly inaugurated the newly refurbished Thyagaraj Stadium for the upcoming Commonwealth Games in the city. Boasting world-class infrastructure, the multipurpose air-conditioned stadium has a total …
In October 2008 the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health invited international representatives from NGOs, government, academia and the UN to a meeting to discuss barriers and to identify breakthroughs to providing sanitation for all. This document has been compiled to summarize the discussions, place them within …
Software-to-soap maker Wipro Ltd plans to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint by half in the next five years. The Bangalore-based company with significant interests in IT, would reduce GHG intensity to 2.5 tonnes per employee by 2015, according to the company
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, …
The planet is a long way from dying of thirst. "It's inevitable that we'll solve our water problems," says Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute, a nonpartisan environmental think tank. "The trick is how much pain we can avoid on that path to where we want to be." As …
Worldwide, cities and townships are facing many complex wastewater treatment issues. Although centralized sewers are seen as a preferred solution to wastewater problems, areas with centralized sewers discharding to surface waters, have been identified as source of many pollution problems. Lack of sufficient, even basic treatment is a risk to …
The continued high cost of fresh water and environmental concerns are causing more industrial plants to explore wastewater reuse options. Many facilities are finding it can be more economical to reuse wastewater from specific process areas or from sources outside the petroleum refining or petrochemical facility that it is to …
Increasingly, ensuring resource security will go from being a local problem to a global challenge Water, food, energy and minerals are highly strategic resources. They are essential to human development and, in the case of water and food, to human survival. Food production is, meanwhile, closely intertwined with water and …
