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 …
New Delhi: Pressure is building up to treat manual scavenging on a par with crimes against dalits, to be tried under the atrocities law which lays down stringent punishment. The union social justice ministry has asked the home ministry for details of cases filed by states for manual scavenging under …
The Delhi Jal Board (DJB) on Wednesday received an additional Rs 400 crore in its pocket, with eyes on big investments in constructing new and rehabilitating the existing sewerage network in the city. The Delhi government has approved a total budget outlay of Rs 3,800 crore for 2012-12 for the …
India, to put it euphemistically, is awash in its own ‘crap’ — a word derived from old Dutch to mean excrement. While accurate to an alarming degree, coming soon after the euphoria over the Agni missile tests, the discomfiture is evident. Till recently, collective India preferred to do the ostrich …
In Los Angeles, city engineers and policy makers are taking an innovative approach to treating waste and protecting water. In the past, the city relied exclusively on trucking waste to Kern County for treatment. Groundbreaking technology has moved Los Angeles away from traditional methods of waste storage and treatment. New …
The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, pulled up State Governments for tardy performance on sewage treatment and asked them to take action against industries polluting the river on Tuesday. He warned that time was running out to preserve the Ganga. Voicing concern over discharge of 2,900 million litres of sewage …
The Pakistan Council Of Research In Water Resources (PCRWR) has said that drinking water quality is deteriorating continually due to biological contamination from human waste, chemical pollutants from industries and agricultural inputs. According to the report issued by the PCRWR, piped water also gets contaminated because pipes are laid very …
Palike to take up rejuvenation of the water body again In an annual ritual of sorts, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has decided to take up the rejuvenation of the Ulsoor Lake in the City. The only difference this time is that the Palike is planning to construct a …
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has purchased a new robotic multi-purpose excavator machine for the desilting of major drains in the city, as well as the Mithi river. On Thursday, the sewerage operations department of the corporation demonstrated the machine’s operations for the first time. The excavator works as three …
MUMBAI: Satisfied with the performance of robotic multipurpose excavator to clean the nullahs, the BMC may go ahead and buy more of them. A decision on this is yet to be taken, but senior civic officials and the ruling alliance leaders expressed their satisfaction after seeing a demonstration of the …
Taking up its first case involving an environmental issue, a Lahore High Court “Green Bench” comprising Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah sought appearance of the Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) and Environment Protection Agency (EPA) officers concerned to explain alleged disposal of wastewater into the Ravi. LHC Chief Justice Sheikh …
Gurgaon, India’s aspiring lower Manhattan, may soon end up with no water, but overflowing sewage. In 2006, the water level in Gurgaon had fallen to 51 metre below ground level. And if the water table plunges to 200 metre, the industrial and upscale residential township would be left with nothing …
Chandigarh: The Punjab Government has decided to cover all villages in the State under the World Bank scheme to provide fresh drinking water during the next two years. A decision to this effect was taken by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal during a meeting with a World Bank team and …
London: British scientists claim they are developing a unique device which can turn used toilet waste into drinking water. A team at Manchester University, led by Sarah Haigh, says the innovation — which has been funded by billionaire Bill Gates — could transform the lives of millions of people in …
The Delhi Government's 30 departments and agencies will have to mandatorily use geo-spatial data of overground and underground assets before planning infrastructure projects. This has to be followed after an ambitious legislation comes into force in the city next month. The IT Department has already completed a three-year project under …
Water supply and drainage facilities in Chennai’s suburbs will be strengthened at a cost of Rs 2,000 crore, announced Mr K.P. Munusamy, Tamil Nadu Minister for Municipal Administration. Replying to the debate in the Assembly on the demand for grants to Municipal Administration and Rural Development, he said the Chennai …
Residents of the twin cities are facing great threat to their health as the water being supplied to them from Rawal Dam has become heavily polluted by a heavy inflow of sewage and wastewater. The residents of the federal capital have no option but to drink filthy and contaminated water …
The Department of Environment (DoE) fined owners of four multistoried buildings Tk 28 lakh for constructing the buildings without its environment clearance certificate. The buildings are the 13-storied Midas Centre in Dhanmondi, 20-storied Lotus Kamal Tower in Banani, under-construction 14-storied Navana Chhayabithi in Gulshan and Navana Nasrin Casavel in Gulshan. …
Environmental pollution is increasing at an alarming rate in the capital, which is also affecting the adjoining areas. Citizens said cutting of trees, improper garbage disposal, faulty sewerage system and constructions of roads were the main factors causing environmental pollution. It has been observed that there is no proper system …
BWSSB denies sewage mixed with drinking water A one-and-half-year-old boy died on Wednesday night after allegedly consuming contaminated water at Jagjivanram Nagar.The parents of the boy, Chandan, blame the contaminated water he drank for his death. But BWSSB officials have ruled out any chances of sewage water mixing with drinking …
When the first set of detailed data from Census 2011, Houses, Households Amenities and Assets, was released a couple of weeks ago, there was much flinching at the fact that around half of all Indians still defecate in the open. The census data also showed that piped and treated drinking …
