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: Industry body CII, in collaboration with the government of Rajasthan, is planning to set up a water institute in Jaipur with the help of industry players and the Indian Business Alliance on Water (IBWA), reports Our Bureau. It will be set up with an initial investment of up …
In periurban Hyderabad, India, leafy vegetables are increasingly grown along the Musi River and sold in urban markets. This agricultural biodiversity can significantly help urban and periurban farmers become more resilient to the impacts of such changes.
Several areas in Delhi may soon get respite from water scarcity as Delhi Jal Board (DJB) is all set to commission a new water treatment plants Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday reviewed the ongoing projects o the DJB and said there would be no dearth of funds for drinking …
People are very entrenched in the way they do their laundry," says Adam Lowry, the co-founder and chief "greenskeeper" at Method. And that's a problem, as we'll explain in a moment. Method is an 8-year-old company that makes "environmentally-friendly cleaning products that are safe for every home and every body." …
Houston At the International Space Station, it was one small sip for man and a giant gulp of recycled urine for mankind. Astronauts aboard the space station celebrated a space first on Wednesday by drinking water that had been recycled from their urine, sweat and water that condenses from exhaled …
MUMBAI: In an attempt to tackle the city's growing water shortage problem, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is set to pass a proposal making it mandatory for all new buildings to install water recycling systems. Here, grey water (household non-toxic water) is disinfected and then reused for non-potable purposes (see …
Environment Protection Agency (EPA) has failed to establish proper mechanism for treating industrial effluents as only one percent of wastewater is treated, daily, before being discharged directly into rivers and sea. Industrial effluents containing high level of pollutants are discharged everyday into sea and river causing incident of skin disease, …
The study conducted on 120 rural and urban homemakers in two randomly selected panchayat wards and two municipal council wards of district Kangra of Himachal Pradesh revealed their knowledge regarding indigenous resource management practices. Results showed that knowledge levels vary among rural and urban homemakers which were tested with Z- …
Aerogels could help in treating oil-contaminated water an aerogel is best described as jelly sans the moisture. But unlike jelly that dries up and cracks when water is removed from it, aerogels do not crack. They are like sponges with a surface containing millions of nano-sized pores that can absorb …
Soft attitude of the government towards polluters and lack of awareness among city dwellers have literally left dead all the rivers and other surface waters in and around the capital. Over the years the government agencies conducted small-scale drives against the polluters without yielding any major success. The polluters have …
Industries based in Punjab are discharging toxic and persistent waste into fertile croplands, rivers, and groundwater sources due non-availability of wastewater treatment facilities. It is obvious that wastewater treatment facilities are too expensive for the most individual units to afford. Keeping in view this difficulty, the Government has tried to …
Growing population, industrialization, agricultural practices and urbanization have increased the water demand and hence the quantity of wastewater (ww). Availability of drinking water, including different components of daily per capita demand in developing countries, is becoming a serious issue to manage. To fight with growing water stress, reclamation and reuse …
Mumbai: The Environment Impact Assessment Authority has made it mandatory for projects spread over more than 20,000 sq metres (built-up area) to set aside a corpus to maintain, operate a sewage treatment plant for three to five years. Nair Singh, chairperson of the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board and member of …
New Delhi: 5-MGD waste treatment plant to come up in Okhla; at present, almost 80% of the supply water turns into sewage and is treated, the rest goes down the drain, literally The Delhi Jal Board has a plan up its sleeves to deter people from wasting potable water and …
In view of the unprecedented dry spell coupled with depleting ground water level in Guwahati owing to shortage of rainfall, the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) has pressed into service two of its water tankers to supply water, more particularly in areas that are not covered by its water piped network. …
