Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
The groundwater in sample-tested areas of Tondiarpet, where an oil leak from a pipeline was reported in July, is severely contaminated with petroleum products, an IIT Madras team has said in its preliminary report. The water could remain polluted for several decades if no remedial measures were taken, it added. …
The inspection of water samples received from community based rural water supply schemes in the North Central Province has proved that in most cases the ground water being provided is not suitable for consumption. There are around 300 such schemes in the Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa districts. The main possible reason …
The Sri Lankan government says it would take measures to shut down the controversial glove making factory in Nedungamuwa, Weliweriya of Gampaha district if investigations found that the factory has released hazardous material to the environment. The company, Sri Lanka's top rubber glove maker and exporter, Dipped Products PLC of …
The worst fear of Vellalore residents has turned true as the ground water samples collected from the localities near the municipal corporation's dumpyard has indicated presence of ammonia, phosphate apart from exceeding levels of total dissolved salts and nitrate. Three separate samples had been collected and sent for analysis at …
The Union ministry of petroleum and natural gas on Monday told the Southern Bench of the National Green Tribunal that the oil companies are contemplating shifting some of the pipelines from certain areas of North Chennai. Varadarajaperumal Street in Tondiarpet made headlines recently after residents complained that their bore well …
The gram sabha of Navelim panchayat strongly demanded immediate stopping of sewage from Margao city discharged in Saipem Lake in Navelim. Gram sabha members raised their voice against the discharge of sewage in the lake, saying the discharge has polluted the ground water. A resolution was adopted demanding that the …
Three decades after the gas leak disaster, the abandoned Union Carbide plant still continues to pose a serious threat to the people of Bhopal as almost every study done so far to measure the impact of the toxic waste lying dumped both inside and outside the factory premises has established …
More than 1000 people took to the streets obstructing the new Kandy Road at Weliweriya junction accusing the authorities of failing to resolve the ground water pollution that created a shortage of drinking water in several areas in the Gampaha District. The protestors said the haphazard disposal of waste water …
Gampaha Additional Magistrate Heshantha de Mel yesterday ordered the police to obtain urgent separate test reports from the Government Analyst, the Central Environmental Authority, Gampaha Medical Officer of Health, and Water Resources Board to ascertain the reason for the pollution of ground water in the Rathupaswela area of Weliveriya. The …
Fecal bacteria are frequently found at much greater distances than would be predicted by laboratory studies, indicating that improved models that incorporate more complexity might be needed to explain the widespread contamination of many shallow aquifers. In this study, laboratory measurements of breakthrough and retained bacteria in columns of intact …
Urbanisation is the predominant global phenomenon of our time. Groundwater is a critical, but unappreciated, resource for urban water supply. It is also a serious and costly hazard to urban infrastructure, and the ‘invisible link’ between many facets of the urbanisation process. Many important cities are located in ‘landscape lows’, …
Experts from IIT-Madras and engineers from the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) on Thursday collected water samples from Tondiarpet, where oil from pipelines has polluted groundwater. The 10 samples that were taken by the environment division of the civil engineering department of IIT-M will be subjected to gas chromatography-mass …
Rice tainted with high levels of arsenic has been linked to genetic damage that heightens the risk of cancer, a study published on Monday said. Naturally-occurring arsenic in drinking water is a long-known health hazard, especially in Bangladesh, where tens of millions of people depend on wells drilled in the …
Residents at Konem-Farmagudi have resorted to an unusual test to resume consumption of water from a well that was contaminated with diesel for about eight months. The residents recently released fresh water fish in the well and after verifying that the fish was still alive, decided that the water was …
States asked to provide alternative source of drinking water in affected areas Concerned at increasing cases of fluorosis, the Union government has asked the States to provide alternative source of drinking water to the people in areas with high concentration of fluorosis in groundwater. Fluorosis in its severe form (skeletal …
Planning Board alarmed over heavy contamination, poor quality The groundwater level in South Delhi has plunged to an alarming 66.7 metre at its deepest, the second-worst in the whole of the National Capital Region after Alwar (79.75m). Parts of South-West and West Delhi have also reported the highest salinity levels …
The case was originally filed in 2004 Janki Bai Sahu, a survivor of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, who filed a case in a US court on behalf of herself and her family and sought damages from Union Carbide Corporation (UCC), has had her appeal petition dismissed on several grounds, …
Farmers in Sivaganga district have alleged that a graphite company in their area was polluting their fields and rendering them barren. A public hearing on the pollution caused by the company was convened by the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control (TNPCB) board at the Sivaganga district collectorate on Thursday, in which …
Protests staged at various places in delta districts Cadres of the CPI-affiliated Tamil Nadu Vivasayigal Sangam took out rallies and staged demonstrations at various places in Thanjavur, Tiruvarur and Nagapattinam districts protesting against the proposed coal-bed methane (CBM) project from the delta districts. Groundwater depletion and pollution is inevitable when …
Warning that the greatest risk of nitrate poisoning occurs in infants who are fed well and consume boring water contaminated with nitrates, doctors in the city have advised physicians to include questions about the home water supply when examining children. The advisory has been issued after city’s Sir Ganga Ram …
