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 …
TURA: The Tura district administration has imposed Section 144 CrPC prohibiting the dumping of sewage and pumping of water from the streams of Tura in view of the drastic water shortage problem of the town. West Garo Hills deputy commissioner Pravin Bakshi held a meeting on water conservation and containing …
Rising environmental pollution in the federal capital is posing a grave threat to the residents, besides impacting adjoining areas of the city. The residents have expressed their concern and asked the authorities concerned to check the rising level of pollution, which is having hazardous effects on human health. According to …
As part of its efforts to restore the pristine glory of Dal Lake, the Jammu and Kashmir Government has restored 51 blocked springs that feed the water body. “Of the 57 blocked springs, 51 have been restored so far, while artificial wetlands at Guptganga, Ishber and Habbak are under construction …
The Ministry has adopted service level benchmarks for the water and sanitation sector with a view to shift the focus of urban development projects from infrastructure creation to improvement of service levels. The 13th Finance Commission has made it mandatory for all cities having municipalities and municipal corporations to disclose …
The High Level Committee on Financing Infrastructure has constituted a subcommittee on Financing Urban Infrastructure with the following terms of reference: Year-wise investments for the twelfth plan; Sources of financing (viz. debt, equity, grants etc.,) anticipated in the 11th Plan and estimated for the twelfth plan; Innovative ways of financing …
This report has been prepared for submission to the Governor under Article 151 of the Constitution. The report contains findings on performance audit and audit of transactions in various departments including Public Works and Irrigation and Public Health Departments, audit of stores and stock, audit of autonomous bodies. The report …
The World Bank-aided Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) project, aiming to provide solution for better management of coastal zone, is expected to be completed in Gujarat by 2015. The pilot project, launched along with similar ones in West Bengal and Odisha, will also enable Jamnagar improve its underground sewage network …
The quality of potable water is going down constantly due to biological contamination from human waste and effluent from industries and agricultural inputs, reveals a PCRWR report. The Pakistan Council for Research of Water Resources (PCRWR) report says that pipelines close to sewerage were also one of the reasons for …
Residents of eight villages around Chandigarh will not have to suffer the stink emanating from the open drain carrying water from the Mohali sewerage treatment plant to villages as the open drain will now be replaced by an underground pipeline. The Counsel for the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation (MC) submitted this …
Having signed an MoU with the Delhi Government for setting up India’s first Compressed Biogas (CBG) plant to convert waste into CNG, Sweden is likely to sign similar agreements with two more cities, according to Mr Lars Olof Lindgren, Sweden’s Ambassador to India. Mr Lindgren said the Scandinavian country may …
The Delhi Cabinet today decided to encourage fish culture in villages in order to overcome encroachment activities over the water bodies situated under gram sabha land. While talking to media after the meeting, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said that the Cabinet had decided to promote fish culture in the water …
About 50,000 residents in a southern Chinese city had their water supplies disrupted after a fish farm discharged sewage into the local water source, state media said Sunday, in the country's latest pollution incident. Authorities in Foshan city, an industrial part of export- dependent Guangdong province close to Hong Kong, …
The European Union funded SWITCH-Asia Greening Sri Lanka Hotels project, implemented by the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce had been in operation since 2009 and has successfully engaged 170 hotels throughout Sri Lanka, helping them to enhance their environmental performance through improvement of energy, water and waste management. Subsequent to the …
A recent study discovered that many Tel Aviv wells are polluted beyond suitability as drinking water sources. Data collected by the Health Ministry and Water Authority showed that 96 of a total 166 wells in the Tel Aviv area were closed due to contamination. Nearly two-thirds of the wells have …
China has ordered relocation of all smelting plants in a southwestern city in five years after a spill of toxic cadmium in a river threatened drinking water supplies for millions of people. Metals companies that refuse to move out of town would be shut down, said Mr Liao Jincheng, Director …
Despite a second sewage treatment plant on the verge of becoming operational in Panchkula, residents will have to wait for more time before treated water is pumped into parks and lawns. The new plant, constructed by the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) is housed in Sector-22 and will have the …
Center for Science and Environment's second volume of the seventh State of India's Environment report - Excreta Matters (71 cities: a survey), claims that India's cities are wallowing in their waste and the rivers becoming a dumping ground for it. In this report CSE profiles 71 cities on their waste …
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said the Rawalpindi Environment Improvement Project (REIP) failed to achieve sustainable reduction in environmental degradation and operation of basic urban services. ADB in its assessment report released on Wednesday stated that the project was closed prematurely as it was facing serious implementation delays. Poor performance …
If a new report is to be believed, India is swimming in its own sewage and turning its rivers into drains for its ever-expanding cities. The Center for Science and Environment, a 22-year-old New Delhi-based advocacy and research organization, has just released its seventh report—this one entitled, “Excreta Matters: How …
Real-time monitoring by technological tools, such as smart meters and sensors, can help big cities save up to Rs 27 lakh a day and at least 15 per cent of water that's lost owing to leakages and pilferage. Unaccounted for water (UFW) is high at 20-50 per cent in urban …
