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. …
For more than two decades, Huta Ram Baidya has led the Save Bagmati River campaign. An affable, octogenarian activist and Nepal’s first agricultural engineer, his views have been widely circulated in the country’s regional language press, radio, television and on websites. He tells Aditya Batra that the river’s extreme degradation …
One of your more quoted statements is that the Bagmati is dirty because there is too much money flowing in it. Bagmati is nature. She needs to be honoured and feared like nature. Feared like a teacher. She does not like money. Hindus believe when they die, they will be …
The sewage treatment plants in Gurgaon are unable to handle the daily load, taking away the gloss of impressive residential highrises and ultra-modern office buildings of the city. Pools of sewage water from overflowing drains is a common site across the city, as officials say the sewage treatment plants (STPs) …
CHENNAI: The residents of Avadi Municipality will soon be receiving drinking water to quench their thirst and a sewerage network to dispose off the waste water by November 2011, according to Metro Water Managing Director Dr K Gopal. The water supply and underground sewerage scheme worth `261.89 crore which includes …
Sewage routinely contaminates the Hudson River, according to a report released on Tuesday after four years of water testing in which one-fifth of the water samples indicated that the river was unsuitable for swimming and other recreation. The study, issued by the environmental group Riverkeeper, underscores how a big sewage …
CHENANI: In an effort to quench the thirst of the 4.42-lakh people in the Ambattur municipality, the Chennai Metro Water Supply and Sewerage Board (CMWSSB) will build 22 overhead tanks and lay water pipelines at a cost of Rs 268 crore by November. Managing director of CMWSSB Dr K Gopal …
Pursuant to the decisions taken in the meeting held on August 19, 2009 chaired by the Secretary, Cabinet Coordination, Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi and communication received from the Joint Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), Shri Rajiv Guaba, for conducting a detailed field investigation on the issue of Pollution …
Karnataka State Pollution Control Board has come with Sewage Treatment Guidebook in the interest of general public. This guidebook takes the reader through the various units, operations and processes in a typical Extended Aeration Biological Treatment Plant.
GURGAON: The pollution control board of Haryana has issued show-cause notices to the municipal corporation of Gurgaon (MCG), HUDA and HSIIDC, along with 30 other city-based industrial units, for having failed the board's routine pollution check. The effluent samples taken from sewage treatment plants (STPs) maintained by HUDA and MCG, …
As many as 41 of the 49 samples collected by the Haryana Pollution Control Board from industrial establishments in Gurgaon were found to have exceeded permissible limits. These included several government undertakings, including sewage treatment plants (STPs) maintained by the Gurgaon Municipal Corporation and Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA), and …
A massive tree plantation drive in the city will begin soon to achieve the national target of 33 per cent green cover by 2012. Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit launched an elaborate scheme
In order to increase the green cover in Delhi from about 20 per cent at present to the national target of 33 per cent by 2012, the Delhi Government will launch a
Pollution is passe. Millions of Kumbh pilgrims bathing in the Ganga did not know they were taking a plunge right in the filth of untreated sewage. A CAG report reveals the shocking saga of the Uttarakhand government's callous mismanagement.
GURGAON: HUDA is now wooing more private builders to connect their sewage treatment plants (STP) to its main sewerage line. The tie-ups between HUDA and builders will go a long way in reducing the perennial problem of sewage disposal. The DLF is the first private builder which has applied for …
Looking to rein in polluters, the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) will soon prohibit industries, offices and residences under its jurisdiction from disposing sewerage water at non-designated places. Authorities said the move is meant to stop the present practice of sewerage water and other effluents being dumped in green belts …
