Solar Ponds

Affidavit of District Magistrate Meerut on steps taken to free ponds of encroachments, 03/05/2025

Affidavit of District Magistrate Meerut in compliance of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order, March 5, 2025. The NGT, September 4, 2024 had directed a joint committee to submit a report giving details of ponds in Meerut district including all specifications relating to ownership and status of encroachments among other …

Solar energy to pump water to pond

Forest officials in Aldara forest of Lakkavalli wildlife division have taken up the implementation of the summer action plan to quench the thirst of animals and birds in the forest. Due to the scarcity of water in the past, animals started entering human habitations. The efforts of the officials to …

MNRE selects Aryans College of Engineering for green campus

Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has selected Aryans College of Engineering, Rajpura near Chandigarh for developing it as a green campus under its scheme on development of Solar Cities. In accordance with this ministry's administrative approval vide no5/4/2013-14/SC on the scheme of "Development of Solar Cities", 12 organizations …

Recovery of better quality reusable salt from soak liquor of tanneries in solar evaporation pans

The segregation, collection and disposal of saline wastewater streams into solar evaporation are practiced in tanneries to minimize the Total Dissolved Solids (TDS)and Chlorides in the treated effluent and to protect the environment. The wastewater generated from the soaking operation contains soluble proteins such as albumin & globulin and suspended …

The liquid heat trap

THIS is a pond with a difference -- a lifeless, bitter-with-salt body of water that gets hotter as you go deeper and is scalding at the bottom. But for the Kutch dairy in Bhuj, Gujarat, the 6,000 sq metre pond is a gargantuan trap for solar energy and heats about …

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