Polluted Vaal River water should be avoided: government
Residents have been advised not to drink water from the Vaal River due to pollution. Officials say various levels of government are tackling the crisis. Water and sanitation department spokesperson
View ArticleWater quality deteriorating in sea areas
Water quality in the country's offshore areas is deteriorating, even though the amount of wastewater discharged into the sea dropped last year, a report has found. About 68 percent of water in the...
View ArticleOrder of the National Green Tribunal regarding pollution of river Churni,...
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Tribunal on its own Motion Vs. Union of India. The proceedings were initiated on an allegation of severe pollution of river Churni passing through
View ArticleHC notice to board on pollution in canals
Jodhpur: Rajasthan High Court has issued notices to the state pollution control board seeking reply in four weeks about the efforts to stop the pollution in Rajasthan Canal and Gang Canal. The division
View ArticleHow the antidepressants polluting our waters could change animal behaviour
Antidepressants don’t just affect human libidos. New research shows that female starlings fed food spiked with the antidepressant fluoxetine (Prozac), were less “attractive” to males and so less likely
View ArticleAlgorithm Provides Early Warning System for Tracking Groundwater Contamination
Groundwater contamination is increasingly recognized as a widespread environmental problem. The most important course of action often involves long-term monitoring. But what is the most cost-effective
View ArticleWatermelon Rind Cheaply Filters Arsenic in Groundwater
Watermelon rind, usually discarded as waste, has been shown by researchers in Pakistan to be capable of cheaply and efficiently removing arsenic from groundwater. Arsenic poisoning from drinking...
View ArticleSA faces a water catastrophe as state dithers
The Vaal River has been described as an open sewer, most frequently by people who live on its banks, despite protestations to the contrary by the department of water & sanitation. It smells of dead...
View ArticleEthiopia: Monitoring Water Quality for Sustainable Water Management
The Awash Basin is the most utilized river basin in Ethiopia with a number of small, medium and large scale irrigation schemes; urban and rural water supply plans and industries located along the river.
View ArticleTwenty Third Report on Socio-economic impact of commercial exploitation of...
The Standing Committee on Water Resources (2017-18) present the Twenty Third Report on “Socio-economic impact of commercial exploitation of water by Industries.” The Committee (2016 -17) had taken up the
View ArticleProgress on wastewater treatment: piloting the monitoring methodology and...
Leaking latrines and raw wastewater can spread disease and provide a breeding ground for mosquitoes, as well as pollute groundwater and surface water. In this report you can learn more about wastewater
View ArticleOrder of the National Green Tribunal regarding dumping of debris on the banks...
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Sarang Yadwadkar & Others Vs State Govt. of Maharashtra & Others dated 27/08/2018 regarding dumping of debris on the bank of river Mula
View ArticleJaundice probe bares faecal contamination
Jamshedpur: The jaundice outbreak in Dhatkidih that affected more than 400 residents since July was caused by the hepatitis E virus that is primarily transmitted orally owing to faecal contamination of
View Article10 diarrhoea cases reported in Mullanpur
As many as 10 cases of diarrhoea were reported from Deep Nagar, Mullanpur, on Wednesday. Residents of the area have been getting contaminated drinking water supply from the past couple of days after the
View ArticleLearn river cleaning from Indore: NGT to other cities
Indore: Praising Indore for its Kahn river cleaning work, National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday said other cities should learn from MP’s commercial capital. On river cleaning and solid waste...
View ArticleFailure of administration led to death of children in Gorakhpur: NGT
The National Green Tribunal has rapped the Uttar Pradesh government for not taking adequate steps to prevent discharge of pollutants in Rapti river, saying the "failure of the administration" resulted
View ArticleWater at 10 of 12 locations tested by MPCB polluted
The MPCB carried out the assessment at 12 locations in the city in May this year. Mumbai: According to the water quality assessment by the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB), the water quality
View ArticleGermany to provide euro 120 mn soft loan for Clean Ganga Mission: Envoy
In an effort to clean the Ganges, Germany is providing a soft loan of euro 120 million (Rs 990 crore approximately) to India to strengthen sewage water treatment infrastructure in Uttarakhand, Charge...
View ArticleOcean Cleanup Targeting 80,000 Tons Of Plastic Waste In Pacific Ocean
There are dreamers and there are doers. Boyan Slat of the Netherlands is both. 5 years ago at the age of 18, he founded The Ocean Cleanup, an organization dedicated to removing plastic debris from the
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