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 …
This is one powerful idea that would do away with massive solar panels. Solar cells could soon be spray painted onto the sides of buildings or rooftops with nanoparticles. The new nano-ink process could replace the standard method of manufacturing solar cells, which requires high temperatures and is relatively expensive, …
Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) has prepared a plan to install 17 Floating Solar Powered High Flow Circulators/Solar Bees and 10 Portable Wastewater Treatment Plants worth of Rs 400 million at Rawal Lake to clean contaminations from its water, sources told Daily Times on Wednesday. They said WASA had submitted …
DJB Says Cannot Treat It, Blames Poor Rain For Effluent Accumulation Neha Lalchandani | TNN New Delhi: If the water from your tap has been tasting salty of late, here
Struggling with the lack of efficient staff, increasing political pressure and difficulty in providing an answer to over 40 per cent distribution losses in a city that battles perpetual water crisis, the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) has now decided to outsource its major functions to private players. While the plan …
Asha Prakash KOCHI: Every year, the tons of sewage generated from the Sabarimala temple premises during the season posed a major threat to the environment around. The waste was being emptied into the Pamba river, which resulted in further pollution of the already much polluted river. That is, until the …
U.S. start-up Joule Biotechnologies hopes to make commercial amounts of motor fuel by feeding engineered organisms high concentrations of carbon dioxide and sunlight, its top executive said. The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company, which launched on Monday, hopes to make up to 20,000 gallons per acre of fuel a year by late …
Airport operator yet to comply with directive to reuse water the Delhi airport is getting its swanky makeover with illegally extracted groundwater that is used for construction and other purposes. The private consortium operating the airport, Delhi International Airport Limited (dial), is extracting 9 million litres of water a day …
Hyderabad, July 22 The Andhra Pradesh Environment Impact Assessment Authority has issued environmental clearance for the proposed common effluent treatment plant (CETP) planned at the Fab City Special Economic Zone at Maheswaram near Hyderabad. The Fab City SPV (India), a subsidiary of Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (APIIC) and IL&FS;, …
Economic stimulus cash flowing into the water sector will make this nascent $400 billion market an attractive alternative to traditional equity markets, a panel of water market experts said on Wednesday. Water shortages are on the rise, stemming from soaring demand, growing populations and rising living standards, and compounded by …
Scientists have combined refuelling your car and relieving yourself by creating a new catalyst that can extract hydrogen from urine. The catalyst could not only fuel the hydrogen-powered cars of the future, but could also help clean up municipal wastewater, physorg.com reported on Monday. Gerardine Botte of Ohio University uses …
The Noida Jal Nigam has proposed to install four new sewerage treatment plants (STP) with upgraded technology at the cost of Rs 150 crore. In the Master Plan 2021, the installation of STPs would not only ensure good environment but would also ensure better quality of treated water, which can …
The consumers are being made to pay for the penalty levied upon Delhi Jal Board (DJB) for non-treating of sewage water. The DJB is charging three paisa per kilolitre water from the consumers. Strangely, consumer is being forced to pay for the failure of Jal Board to treat sewage water. …
Water resource exploitation has silently supported the blossoming Chinese economy for decades. Unfortunately, that rapid development has ended with depleted rivers and aquifers and degraded water and soil. China is responding with new thinking, policies and technologies to manage water.
Mumbai municipality readies norms for wastewater from kitchens future housing projects in Mumbai would need to have grey water recycling plants to treat wastewater from kitchen, washing clothes and bathing. The treated water is to be used for horticulture and other non-drinking purposes. The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai drafted …
General Electric's Energy Financial Services is working on thousands of megawatts of renewable energy projects, but is not likely to move forward until the U.S. government decides on rules for new grants, an executive in the company's energy business said on Tuesday. Funding for new clean energy projects largely dried …
Speakers at a workshop yesterday underscored the need for ecological sanitation to ensure healthcare of people and save environment. They also suggested for using Ecosan toilet saying that this new toilet will not only protect public health but also produce organic fertiliser. The workshop titled 'Ecological sanitation: Issue and prospects …
Fifty miles east of Los Angeles, a small and inconspicuous facility is using something most of us would rather not think about -- household sewage -- to create a resource we can't live without -- fuel. EnerTech Environmental, an Atlanta startup, on Thursday unveiled the United States' first commercial biosolids-to-energy …
