Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Indiscriminate dumping of waste remains unchecked In a shocking incident, sewage collected from septic tanks in households in the city was disposed of into River Thirumanimuthar by tankers in an unsafe and indiscriminate manner on Tuesday. Most of the households in the city still use septic tanks for disposing of …
UoM VC blames MCC's 'delay' in diverting sewage for the fish kill Varsity authorities on Monday, continued to fish out hundreds of dead fish, which have been accumulating near the banks of Kukkarahalli Lake. The dead fish are being spotted on the banks of the Lake since Saturday. While the …
Observing that pollution of Ganga is a matter of serious concern for the judiciary, the National Green Tribunal has constituted three committees to prevent and control indiscriminate discharge of industrial effluents into the river and its tributaries. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar constituted the three committees-- …
The Delhi Development Authority is drafting a policy on financial and non-financial initiatives to promote green buildings in the national capital. “DDA will soon come up with a policy defining the financial and non-financial initiatives to be offered to those who live in green buildings. The policy will set a …
Improper aeration system and untreated sewage released in the Salim Ali Lake, causing a depletion of dissolved oxygen (DO) are the major reasons for the mass mortality of fishes at the historic lake, showed reports revealed by the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB). Reports on two samples of the lake …
NASHIK: The Bombay High Court has asked Godavari Gatarikaran Virodhi Manch, an NGO that had filed a public interest litigation on river pollution, to make Indiabulls and Nashik Thermal Power Station (NTPS) a party in the case and ask them to appear on November 7. The court said though these …
NAGPUR : Union minister of water resources and river development & Ganga rejuvenation Uma Bharti has assured to ensure approval of Nag river rejuvenation project. Mayor Pravin Datke and municipal commissioner Shyam Wardhane briefed her about the proposal pending with the central government during her visit to the city on …
Interceptor sewer project to be inaugurated today A big step towards cleaning the Yamuna in the Capital is being taken this week, with the Delhi Jal Board getting ready to launch the first package of the ambitious interceptor sewer project on Monday. Trial runs on the first package of the …
Not a drop of sewage will flow into Yamuna three years from now, if a new plan prepared by different departments of the Delhi Government is to be believed. In an elaborate exercise titled 'Action Plan for Implementation of Directions of NGT for Unsewered Areas,' DDA, DJB and an independent …
Following the zeal to revive river Ganga and blue print presented by the Centre before the Supreme Court to take forward the Clean Ganga Mission, a dream project of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the international funding agency World Bank has come up with its bit into it. Jharkhand Urban Infrastructure …
Indore : National Green Tribunal ( NGT) has instructed Indore Municipal Corporation to remove garbage and debris from the riverbed of Khan before November 15 and submit a report with photographs of before and after removal of debris. The direction comes a petition filed by social activist Kishor Kodwani alleging …
The NDA government on Wednesday asserted before the Supreme Court that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious clean Ganga plan has a “vision” to achieve the goal of ‘aviral’ (uninterrupted) and ‘nirmal’ (clean) river. “The ultimate (plan and target) is clean and continuous flow of Ganga. Aviral and nirmal flow of …
Of all the clean water that our cities consume, roughly half of it flows down our sewers to sewage treatment plants where it is treated and released back to the environment. Conventional sewage treatment plants are designed to clean this water to a degree that can be discharged to rivers …
A committee constituted by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) will inspect vessels of floating casinos in river Mandovi here next Tuesday to assess sewage treatment and discharge of waste generated by them. Local activist Sudip Tamhankar had approached the NGT alleging that the offshore casinos have been polluting river Mandovi. …
A study by The Energy and Resources Institute (Teri) has found that Yamuna needs approximately 3.46 billion litres per day (BLD) of fresh flow of water to be able to sustain aquatic life and support day-to-day activities of people living on its banks. The figure is almost equivalent to the …
The Yamuna river, is one of the most-polluted river in India. About 85 percent of the pollution is caused by domestic and industrial sources. The quality of the river is severely affected by the discharge of untreated domestic and industrial effluents.
Over the past years, due to rapid industrialization and advanced agricultural activities environmental deterioration is becoming a major concern. Water is one of the most important and basic natural resource which is being used in industries, agricultural activities as well as for the domestic and commercial purpose. These activities leads …
Half of Lucknow gets unsafe drinking water as the Gomti has dangerous levels of sewage content. Though 25 pumping stations are used to divert untreated sewage to two sewage treatment plants at Daulatganj (56 MLD) and Bharwara (345 MLD), Gomti water remains impure. At the initiative of Lucknow MP Rajnath …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Gram Panchayat, Khalilpur Vs State of Haryana & Ors dated 26/09/2014 on the issue of sewage being discharged near the Village Khalilpur, Haryana. Previous Orders
While Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal wants state Governor and Chandigarh Administrator Shivraj V Patil to "intervene and take effective steps to prevent the flow of industrial and domestic waste from Chandigarh into the drains" that ultimately led to pollution of the Ghaggar, Punjab itself has failed to ensure "zero …
