Polluted Lakes Make Life Miserable in City
Overflowing and foul-smelling sewage, hazardous materials, weeds and shrubs, all infested with disease-causing mosquitoes. This is the state of most of the lakes in Greater Hyderabad, causing untold...
View Article42 polluting units along Hindon shut
Ghaziabad: Forty-two industrial units have been closed down in six districts of UP for polluting the Hindon, according to a report of an inter-departmental committee set up to rejuvenate the river.
View ArticleThe shrinking Wular lake a matter of concern
All is not well with Wular Lake in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district, one of the largest fresh water lakes in Asia, which has been identified as one of the 26 Ramsar sites in the country. Over the past
View ArticleProvide clean drinking water, Stokes to officials
Irrigation and Public Health (IPH) Minister Vidya Stokes today asked the IPH Department to chalk out a strategy for providing clean drinking water to prevent jaundice in the city. Meanwhile, the Shimla
View ArticleGreen activists protest against Surajpur dust pollution
At a time when the builders of Noida and Greater Noida are facing the ire of the district administration and Noida authority over dust pollution at construction sites, environmental activists have...
View ArticleNGT summons Bijnor, Amroha industrialists over rising pollution levels in...
Bijnor: The National Green Tribunal has set off alarm bells for industrialists discharging dirty water and waste into tributaries and nullahs, flowing through Bijnor and Amroha district. Giving thrust
View ArticleContaminated Flint water among most expensive in the U.S.: report
Residents of Flint, Michigan, one of the poorest cities in the United States, paid some of the nation's highest water bills even as the city failed to treat drinking water properly, leading to lead...
View ArticleNational Green Tribunal pulls up MPCB
After one and a half years, MPCB yet to to devise a remedial action plan to restore groundwater quality in the Waluj Industrial Area in Aurangabad district he National Green Tribunal has pulled up the
View ArticleOnline river water test demo begins
Nashik: The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has begun the demonstration project for the online water checking in the Godavari to check the river water pollution. A trial run of the project
View ArticleGanga pollution: NGT asks industries why they shouldn't be shut
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) today issued show cause notice to industries located on the stretch from Haridwar to Kanpur asking why they should not be shut down for polluting river Ganga. The green
View ArticleGovt apathy led to jaundice outbreak, says NIV report
The reports on the jaundice outbreak in Shimla and Solan submitted to the state government by the National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune, and the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) have again
View ArticleState govt rapped for giving wrong information to green panel
DEHRADUN: National Green Tribunal pulled up the state government for giving false information before it in the matter of beach camps still continuing on Ganga and its tributaries. In the hearing , the
View ArticleMedical team confirms water contamination
Noida: A team of doctors led by the district's chief medical officer R K Garg visited Kanchanjunga Apartments in Sector 53 where close to 400 residents have fallen sick after sewage got mixed with supply
View ArticleChicago residents blame city for water contamination in class-action lawsuit
Chicago residents have filed a class-action lawsuit against the city over the safety of its drinking water, claiming that “elevated and unsafe” levels of lead have contaminated their water supply for...
View ArticleChina needs more power to crack down on polluters- minister
China needs more powers to crack down on polluting companies and local governments that protect them, the country's environment minister said on Thursday. Beijing has identified pollution as a top...
View ArticlePeru Declares Water Quality Emergency in Oil Spill-Hit Amazon Districts
LIMA – Peru’s government has declared a 90-day water quality emergency in several northern jungle districts where two oil spills occurred due to ruptures of a pipeline operated by state-owned oil company
View ArticleOrder of the National Green Tribunal regarding debris and muck lying on the...
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Manoj Misra Vs. Delhi Development Authority & Ors. dated 19/02/2016 regarding pollution of river Yamuna. Three Experts Members on the Principal
View ArticleSewage from treatment plant threatens Puttenahalli lake
Bengaluru's only Bird Conservation Reserve getting choked Aflock of Black-headed Ibis seen at the Puttenahalli lake in Yelahanka. The Bird Conservation Reserve is being choked by the untreated sewage
View ArticleCentre to help check jaundice outbreak in Himachal Pradesh
Sanctions 70 lakh for a study by the ICMR to prevent recurrence of disease Expressing concern over jaundice outbreak in the capital town, Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda on Sunday urged the State...
View ArticleIndustrial zones polluting water with chemicals
HA NOI (VNS) — Many industrial zones nationwide failed to operate their waste treatment systems properly and have dumped large amounts of industrial waste with high levels of toxic chemicals into the...
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