The 2024 blue drop results show an alarming increase in unsafe municipal drinking water, with 13% of blue drop tests across the country that point to unsafe drinking water. The drinking water of 28 towns and cities did not comply with standards for safe drinking water. Drinking water that does …
In a bid to make villages sustainable, the Aurangabad divisional commissionorate for the first time has undertaken the task of making eco-friendly development plans for them in tune with the needs of villagers. According to the directives of divisional commissioner Sanjeev Jaiswal, 1,988 villages from the eight districts of the …
The city’s top private hospitals, including some of the most expensive ones, are flouting biomedical waste rules, says the apex body on biomedical waste in Delhi Pollution Control Committee. The committee has found 14 hospitals that have been violating important norms like waste segregation, safe disposal of used needles, keeping …
The state government is planning to take up massive programme for urban infrastructure development to improve the living standards of low income groups and and their economic development. This is as part of efforts to face the challenge of steep rise in population in urban areas with growth pegged at …
The Water Supply and Drainage Ministry has launched a project to utilize the sewage in the Jaffna Municipal area for agricultural purposes, Water Supply and Drainage Ministry Secretary Amarananda Abegunasekera said. This will be implemented as a part of the Jaffna Water Supply Project, he said. The secretary said it …
The Tamil Nadu Government has sanctioned ₹853.96 crore for water supply and sewerage projects in small towns and cities, according to an official press release. The projects under Urban Infrastructure Development Scheme for Small and Medium Towns comprise ₹441.46 crore for providing underground sewerage systems in six towns – Periyakulam, …
Keeping the capital city green and clean, Thimphu thromde’s slogan, has been the biggest challenge. This is evident from the clogged drains, overflowing trash bins, garbage strewn all over the place, and rivers being used as a dumpsite. The irony is that the problem was identified decades ago, when it …
Goa state pollution control board (GSPCB) on Thursday filed a rejoinder affidavit before the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in the casino matter stressing the need to monitor the disposal of bilge ad oily waters of casino ships operating in the River Mandovi, as it was done for sewage. 'The generation, …
Noted water conservationist Dr Rajendra Singh has urged the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) to undertake urgent measures to curb water pollution in Godavari river. “Godavari river is getting polluted on a large scale, as the industrial effluents as well as domestic waste are being released into the river. Sewage is …
The National Green Tribunal, Chennai has stopped the Maramalai Nagar municipality from laying a storm water drain connecting several neighbourhoods to Potheri Lake, citing possible environmental pollution by a university campus. The direction comes on a petition by M K Dhandapani, president of the Nandhivaram-Guduvancherry panchayat union. He said the …
Seven-year-old Anjali, a frail girl walking with a bucket of sewage and waste water for discharging it in an open field, is a pitiful sight. This has become the fate of several others at Bhagpati village and adjoining areas, where the residents have been forced to become a scavenger, flushing …
Smarting under the effects of an unprecedented natural calamity in June, the Uttarakhand government is working on a Rs 9,000-crore action plan to minimize the impact of climate change in the state. The plan was presented on Tuesday by the State Council for Climate Change to chief secretary Subhash Kumar, …
A sewerage treatment plant set up by the Irrigation and Public Health Department on the Pathankot-Mandi highway has become a major health hazard for hundreds of families residing in the lower areas of the town. It has made their lives “virtually hell” as the plant has almost become non-functional and …
Scientists from Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi working on city's drainage master plan don't think it's a good idea to cover storm water drains. While there may not be any harm in covering drains carrying only storm water, most of Delhi's storm water drains carry sewage water that emanates noxious gases …
The parliament on Monday approved a government proposal to obtain loans totalling MVR814 million. The three loans approved by the parliament include an MVR308 million ($20 million) loan for water and sewerage projects, an MVR53 million (EUR2.5 million) loan for the upgrading of Male electricity grid, and an MVR453 million …
The government plans to construct seven water supply projects and sewage systems in the country next year, Water Supply and Drainage Ministry Secretary Amarananda Abeygunasekera said. Attanagalla and Minuwangoda will have the largest water supply project under this program costing around US $ 229, he said. Abeygunasekera said a water …
Work on three sewerage treatment plants in Jalandhar will come to a halt with Punjab government failing to release its share even though major funding is being provided by the Centre for the project. Official sources revealed that out of its share of Rs 72 crore, Punjab government has given …
Large-scale pollution caused by open discharge of untreated sewage and from urinals into Kushavati river by hotels and shops in the town is worrying citizens about a possible outbreak of disease. The stormwater drains on the southern bank of the river carry hazardous content to the river and this can …
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government will utilise Rs1.13 billion on establishing the first autonomous civic body of the country in Peshawar for providing water and sanitation services to people in urban areas. The new body, Water and Sanitation Services Peshawar (WSSP), would be a public limited company owned by the government, …
The Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC), which is releasing untreated sewage into Godavari river, is expected to revamp its sewage disposal system by March 2014. The city gets around 390 million litres per day (MLD) drinking water, of which sewage of around 240 MLD is generated. The NMC is treating 200 …
PWD minister Ramkrishna 'Sudin' Dhavalikar, who is also the chairman of the Goa sewerage infrastructural development corporation limited, on Monday submitted a proposal to the Union minister for environment and forests (MoEF), Jayanthi Natarajan, requesting funds for four sewerage schemes in Goa totaling 1,305 crore. The proposal requests that the …
