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. …
Tightening the screws on hotels and restaurants discharging sewage waste in the creek, the Goa State Pollution Control Board will now carry out random raids on the establishments as many owners denied discharging waste in the water bodies. Pollution Control Board officials told representatives of 12 hotels and restaurants that …
Stay vacated by HC, new sewage plant can finally be linked to network Despite the crores of rupees spent on laying sewer lines and maintaining existing ones, the drainage system in Gurgaon still falls woefully short. Now, with the Punjab and Haryana High Court vacating the stay on the final …
Tuticorin: A group of residents residing in wards 20, 34 and 35 here staged a protest in front of the Corporation seeking to shift the sewage treatment plant reportedly being constructed in the residential area as part of the ongoing underground drainage project. Owing allegiance to the People's Protection Movement, …
The Delhi Jal Board (DJB) has commissioned two state-of-the-art plants: the 1 MGD sewage treatment plant (STP) and 1 MGD water treatment plant (WTP) at the Commonwealth Games Village. The plants will be inaugurated by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Saturday. The construction of the 1 MGD WTP was awarded …
Chandigarh: Haryana has virtually received a rap on its knuckles for acquiring the agricultural land with standing crop when shamlat deh or common village land belonging to the panchayat was available for the setting up of a sewerage treatment plant in Panipat district. The High Court also scrutinised the action …
NEW DELHI, 10 JUNE: The government today approved a proposal for carrying out the second phase of Ganga Action Plan worth Rs 496.90 crore with Japanese assistance at Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. The proposal by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will be under the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) …
New Delhi: The river Ganga may soon get a much-needed clean-up act at the section where it crosses the pilgrimage city of Varanasi, with a little help from the Centre and the Uttar Pradesh state government. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Thursday approved a Rs 497-crore project to …
TUTICORIN: A group of residents from wards 20, 34 and 35 submitted petition to Collector G. Prakash on Monday seeking his intervention to shift the sewage treatment plant reportedly being established amidst the residential area as part of the ongoing underground drainage project undertaken by the corporation. The petitioners said …
Its proximity to the Capital might have actually caused more damage to Ghaziabad than good. While it was busy dealing with its own pollution mess, a large part of Delhi
The answer to pollution in the Yamuna lies in rethinking the subsidy on water use and building capacity for drainage Every year, on June 5, the world remembers and celebrates the concern for environment in the form of the World Environment Day. But why are we not getting the practice …
Facilities involved in the manufacture of pharmaceutical products are an under-investigated source of pharmaceuticals to the environment. Between 2004 and 2009, 35 to 38 effluent samples were collected from each of three wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in New York and analyzed for seven pharmaceuticals including opioids and muscle relaxants. Two …
Rajesh B. Nair A sewage treatment plant is being planned on the southern side bund of Kanakaneri at Thattanchavady in Puducherry. PUDUCHERRY: The Kanakaneri, one of the oldest waterbodies in the town, is once again in the news. Environmental activists have come out against the government's decision to establish a …
Civic amenities:Collector C. Munianathan, second from left, inspecting the work which is under way for a sewage treatment plant at Keechankuppam in Nagapattinam. NAGAPATTINAM: Over six sewage treatment plants are being conceived for tsunami houses here in Nagapattinam. The project funded by the World Bank to the tune of Rs.5.17 …
Rakesh Lohumi Acting swiftly on the complaints of local villagers, the state pollution control board today issued a show-cause notice to the Wildflower Hall hotel of the Oberoi chain on the outskirts of the city for flouting environmental norms and contaminating natural water sources by discharging partially treated sewage effluent …
Will the various government agencies at least now put their act together and get down to the serious business of putting an end to environment degradation with the Goa State Pollution Control Board compiling a damning report on the state of affairs in Colva? Well, even the Pollution Board is …
Paving way for what is being seen as a ong-term solution to the pollution in the Yamuna iver due to untreated sewage disposal, the Union Cabinet Committee on nfrastructure on Wednesday cleared the pro ect for laying interceptor sewer along the three main drains of the city Najafgarh, Supplementary (running …
The Union Cabinet Committee on Wednesday approved the ambitious Rs 1,357-crore Yamuna cleaning Interceptor Sewer project of the Delhi Jal Board (DJB). In what is termed as the largest fund approval for Delhi under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), the project was cleared after extensive examination by …
The Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA) has admitted that the sewage of Chandigarh and Mohali was being discharged into the seasonal N-choe, which originates from Chandigarh and passes through various parts of the city before reaching Mohali. The sewage treatment plant (STP) has been lying defunct for over two …
Chandigarh: As a part of river conservation project, the union ministry of environment and forests on Thursday cleared a proposal for laying sewage disposal pipes, and provision of sewage treatment plants in eight more towns of Punjab. These are Hoshiarpur, Phagwara South, Rajpura, Patran, Lehraghaga, Derabassi, Khanuri and Jalandhar. The …
On reasons for conducting social audit Social audit means involving people in an audit process. It provides a platform to the public to voice their grievances. We wanted to reach out to the common man as many problems affecting them go unheard. A social audit would give them a platform.On …
