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 …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Baldev Singh & Others Vs State of Punjab & Others And Brig. H.S. Brar Vs State of Punjab & Others dated 27/08/2013 regarding pollution caused by the tannery and other industry situated in Punjab and Haryana thereby polluting the major …
The State pollution control board will collect water samples from Tondiarpet on Wednesday to check the level of contamination from oil seepage. Groundwater in the northern neighbourhood has been contaminated for the past six months due to oil seepage from a pipeline belonging to Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL). “An …
Move comes after HC flayed BWSSB for failure to check contamination The Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB), along with the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB), is all set to test water samples of 50 borewells, including dug wells, in 110 villages on the outskirts of the City …
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. …
Sri Lanka Industrial Technical Institute (ITI) says that the water samples in the vicinity of a glove making factory in the Rathupaswala area of Weliweriya tested high in acidity. The pH value of the water samples taken within one kilometer radius of the factory was reported to be as low …
President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday assured the residents of Rathupaswala, in Weliweriya, that the factory which allegedly discharged effluents contaminating their ground water would be relocated. The President gave the assurance when he met residents of the Rathupaswala area and relevant officials on the Weliweirya water issue last afternoon at the …
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 High Court of Karnataka on Monday directed the State government to furnish details in a day on the status of borewells in the City. The Division Bench comprising Chief Justice D H Waghela and Justice B V Nagarathna sought the information while hearing a suo motu petition following newspaper …
“Presence of highly inflammable products can result in explosions in Tondiarpet” A preliminary investigation report on the recent oil leakage in Tondiarpet found that the groundwater in the north Chennai locality is severely contaminated with petroleum products. Calling for proper precautionary measures, the report warned that presence of such highly …
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 …
