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 …
The notification of the Wetlands (Conservation and Management) Rules, 2010 has provided a legal framework for protecting an ecosystem that has come under serious threat from unregulated development activity. Wetlands provide a range of ecosystem services, not the least of which is water security to vast regions housing millions of …
BHUBANESWAR: This might appear a tall order but the State Government has set a goal of turning urban Orissa totally sanitised by 2016-17 in tune with the National Urban Policy. The Government, which aims at creating community driven healthy towns, has come up with the Urban Sanitation Strategy to free …
This report by Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), is based on a survey of the lakes dating back to the 9th century AD in Mahadevpura constituency of Bengaluru. The lakes are now faced with the impacts of rapid urbanization and the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike …
How do sanitisers harm the environment? Antimicrobial household and personal care products mostly depend on two chemicals—triclosan and triclocarban. As we use the products, the chemicals are washed down the drain. Even after treatment, 50 to 70 per cent of the compounds remain in municipal biosolids. Less than 3 per …
Civic body will set up a natural wetland purifying plant on Chirag Dilli nullah and use the treated water from it to maintain 22-acre land in south Delhi The MCD has come up with a unique way to meet the growing water requirement to maintain its parks in south Delhi. …
The city is faring quite poorly in comparison to other major cities of the country if a report of the central Ministry for Urban Development is to be believed. The ministry has prepared a Service Level Bench Mark Data of the country's 28 cities. This provides information about the city's …
New Delhi: Consumers who do not have a Delhi Jal Board (DJB) connection, but discharge their sewage into its system, will now have to pay sewage charges. The body took this decision at its board meeting on Thursday. It has also extended its rebate scheme on payment of arrears to …
When the Coimbatore Corporation is already facing flak from councillors over the pace of implementation of the underground drainage scheme, sharp rise in the prices of construction materials is causing further agony to the civic body. The civic body is engaged in laying sewers measuring nearly 650 km within the …
A high level Archeological Survey of India (ASI) delegation is in Jaisalmer to explore the possibility of developing a modern sewerage system near Sonar Kella to provide stability to the historical monument. ASI additional director Pravin Srivastava is heading the delegation which held a meeting with officials from various departments. …
The Gujarat high court on Monday issued notices to the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB), the state industries and mining department, AMC and the State Human Rights Commission in connection with high-level of industrial pollution in Vatva and Narol areas of the city. Taking suo motu cognizance of a letter …
Jan. 9: City corporators, led by the Mayor, have proposed that the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB;) be merged with the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC). Their contention is that the lack of coordination bet-ween the two public utilities is causing inconvenience to citizens. They say that …
The National Urban Sanitation Policy 2008 (NUSP) introduced by Ministry of Urban Development. Government of India with a vision to make all Indian cities totally sanitized, healthy, livable and has provided the required framework to move towards urban sanitation in an integrated manner with addressing the issues related to urban …
Contamination of drinking water sources by sewage can occur from raw sewage overflow, septic tanks, leaking sewer lines, land application of sludge and partially treated waste water. Sewage itself is a complex mixture and can contain many types of contaminants. The greatest threats posed to water resources arise from contamination …
KOLKATA, 27 DEC: The desilting and strengthening of underground sewers with glass-reinforced polymer pipes (GRP) in south and north Kolkata is a distant dream and is not possible before September next year, senior civic officials feel. The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has floated a global tender to find out a …
Urban Administration and Development Minister Shri Babulal Gaur while reviewing the actions being taken for improvement and development of the Upper Lake and Lower Lake said that if the works are being constantly monitored and efforts are made, everything will be possible. There is nothing impossible in this world, he …
As its gas supply infrastructure has suffered major leakages over the last 30 years, the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) has decided to discontinue the supply of domestic biogas to its 4,000-odd consumers in South Delhi from January 25 next year. The water utility body is now considering alternative uses for …
New Delhi: An interactive model of a house with details of which activity consumes how much water and a machine that will tell you how much of your body weight comprises of water are just some of the exhibits at the water and waste water gallery that was launched at …
KOLKATA, 7 DEC: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has floated a fresh global tender for its project entailing desilting and strengthening of underground sewer lines with glass reinforced polymer (GRP) lining in south and north Kolkata. The fresh tender was floated on 24 November and interested firms can bid for the …
