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 …
There are no self-cleaning weeds in the pool. There are no whirring windmills or glistening solar panels on the rooftop. There is no organic garden in the backyard. Yet, Bangalore
Mumbai: Water woes for the city seem to be unending. Soon, people residing in high-rises and big housing complexes will have to reduce their municipal water consumption, so that others living in smaller societies get their quota of supply. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to make recycling of …
Recycling of water has assumed great importance worldwide due to water scarcity in urban areas. Use of fresh water for non potable secondary purposes will have huger burden on natural resources. Based on this objective, a water recycling plant was designed with tertiary treatment consisting of biological contractors for the …
P B Jayakumar / Mumbai November 27, 2009, 1:28 IST Industrialisation, technology, urban need make commercial water supply a growing opportunity. The 47.3-hectare Commonwealth Games Village coming up in Delhi on the bank of the Yamuna will house thousands of athletes next October, in 1,100 flats. Thousands of litres of …
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is likely to modify the proposal of setting up of grey water recycling facility to treat household non-toxic waste water, by asking the builders to develop the space above the treatment plant as garden. A 300-sq ft area must be compulsorily designated for the recycling …
- Squat protest by 200 at pollution board public hearing Over 200 villagers voiced their opposition to an integrated steel plant at a public hearing organised by the state pollution control board at a village in adjoining Seraikela-Kharsawan district today, in yet another indication of local residents
The Government will slash the selling price of recycled water and establish 20 supply points to promote its use for nonpotable purposes. Recycled water is presently manufactured at only two places in the City - the Vrishabhavati Valley and Yelahanka and sold at areas in the vicinity.
Baba Bakala: More than 90 per cent villages in the state have been facing an uphill task to ensure proper disposal of sewage even as the state government is busy making arrangements to ensure proper disposal of wastewater in these villages on a priority basis. Meanwhile, the state government has …
Mumbai Amid continuing water crisis in Mumbai, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is all set to use recycled sewer water to turn the city greener. In a first-of-its- kind project, the civic body will use recycled sewer water to create greenery at Gorai and Deonar dumping grounds. It also plans …
Because of climate change, water will become even more scarce in many arid parts of the world. The implications for sanitation, health and agriculture are serious. No doubt, this precious resource must be used efficiently. Doing so will help to reduce poverty, prevent epidemics and save energy, says Thomas Kluge …
New Delhi: Not only were the large scale immersions on the occasion of Dashmi on Monday detrimental to the river, they have also ensured that large parts of Delhi do not get water supply for almost five days. Production at the 200 million gallons per day (MGD) Haiderpur water treatment …
Wetlands ecosystems are a natural source of local, regional and global significance. Historically their high level of plant and animal (especially bird) diversity is perhaps the major reason why wetland protection has become a high priority worldwide, supported by international agreements, such as Ramsar Convention and the International Convention of …
In the present studies, attempts are made to optimize digestion time, initial feed pH, feed temperature and feed flow rate (organic loading rate, OLR) for maximum yield of methane gas and maximum removal of chemical oxygen demand and biological oxygen demand (BOD) of food processing industry wastewaters in three-phase fluidized …
New Delhi: It pays to have a conscience. That seems to be the motto as Delhi gears up for its first-ever job fair for the green sector. The fair, part of an initiative to bring sustainable development into the mainstream, promises to offer career opportunities in a field that has …
The broad objective of the report is to formulate technically viable proposal enabling funding agencies to implement a comprehensive and scientifically viable water conservation, artificial recharge and rain water harvesting program in the entire NCR, on loan/grant basis. The implementation strategy will have active community participation and awareness generation programs.
It is time we began to live differently. But if you believe that governments and power and water utilities can bring about that change, you need to think again. The change has to begin with us. We have to be the change without governments telling us what to do. Without …
