Pond filling plagues Rajshahi city
In the last five decades, a total of 4,000 ponds have been filled because of the indiscriminate earth-dumping and unplanned urbanisation As the High Court has given a directive to stop the filling of
View ArticleToxic waste mountains threaten Southeast Asia's booming megacities
A blaze at a vast rubbish dump made up of six million tonnes of putrefying trash and toxic effluent has kindled fears that poor planning and lax law enforcement are tipping Thailand towards a waste...
View ArticleMexico baffled by sudden death of thousands of fish in Lake Cajititlán
Mexicans are baffled at the sudden death of thousands of fish in a lake in the centre of the country, a dramatic intensification of a problem that no one has yet been able to explain. Nearly 50 tonnes
View ArticleThames Water fined £250,000 for Chase Brook pollution
A water company has been fined £250,000 for polluting a brook in Newbury. Thames Water was also ordered at Reading Crown Court to pay costs of nearly £7,000 after untreated sewage flowed in to Chase
View ArticleHealth officer told to inspect ‘pollution’ in the Nandini, and Kateel area
President of Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat Asha Thimmappa Gowda on Monday instructed the District Health and Family Welfare Officer (DHO) H.S. Shivakumar to study if the authorities of...
View ArticlePilot project successful, MMRDA to continue process of cleaning Mithi river
With the pilot effort at cleansing the Mithi River using a microbial technology having purified a considerable amount of water and drastically reduced its odour, the city’s development authority has
View ArticleCentre sets up panel to review key ‘green laws’
The Centre on Tuesday set up a high-level committee headed by former Cabinet Secretary T.S.R. Subramanian to review environment laws and bring them in line with “current requirements”. The committee
View ArticleClean Yamuna, pollution control top priority
The first thing the city govt did after Mr Modi took over was that it sent officials to Gujarat to study the Sabarmati river A series of projects, close to the heart of Prime Minister Narendra Modi,
View ArticleNew Model Can Track Movement Of Giant 'Garbage Patches' On Ocean...
There are at least five big patches of garbage floating around the planet's oceans and some are as big as the state of Texas, scientists said in a new study, published Tuesday in the journal Chaos. And
View ArticleYour plan will take 200 yrs to clean Ganga: SC to Centre
Submit phase-wise action plan, govt told After going through the Centre’s affidavit, the court said it was unable to comprehend the scheme properly as it had been drafted in the typical bureaucratic
View ArticleStage-wise plan must for clean Ganga
The Supreme Court said it seems that steps taken so far will not lead to cleaning of Ganga even after 200 years The Narendra Modi government’s ambitious poll promise to depollute river Ganga came under
View ArticleSC wants to monitor Ganga clean-up
Asks govt. to explain how the project will be executed Unhappy with the government’s affidavit setting out its plans to clean the Ganga, the Supreme Court on Wednesday said it wanted to monitor the
View ArticleOver 1K units in GPCB's `rogues list' of polluters
Factories In Vicinity Of City Polluting Water Table The state government is tightening the noose around industrial units in the vicinity of the city that are becoming a major source of pollution. For
View ArticleGovt: Ganga water unfit for bathing at Allahabad, Varanasi
The water quality of Ganga river at Allahabad and Varanasi, two holy places where millions take a dip, is most unfit for bathing purposes, the Centre informed the Supreme Court. Water becomes unfit
View ArticleDespite Rs 486 crores project, Kashi residents gets contaminated water
Varanasi: The project of several crores of rupees for supply of potable water is like a white elephant for the Kashi. The people are compelled to drink contaminated water supplied by Jal kal department.
View ArticleNo visarjan in Yamuna from this year
After the Allahabad high court's ban on immersing idols in the Yamuna to save it from pollution, the Agra district administration is ensuring that the orders are strictly implemented and temporary ponds
View ArticleNGT wants a riverfront plan that lays stress on cleaning Yamuna
The National Green Tribunal on Thursday expanded the scope of two related cases on the Yamuna riverfront development project and natural drains leading into the river. This was done so that Yamuna's...
View ArticleDongguan's $2.92b plan to tackle water pollution
Dongguan, the city in Guangdong that has been dubbed the world's workshop, plans to spend 18 billion yuan ($2.92 billion) on controlling water pollution. The industrial hub was last year named by the
View ArticleWorst Case' BP Ruling on Gulf Spill Means Billions More in Penalties
BP Plc acted with gross negligence in setting off the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, a federal judge ruled, handing down a long-awaited decision that may force the energy company to pay...
View ArticleGSPCB to submit report on St Inez creek
The Goa state pollution control board (GSPCB) has completed the inspection of St Inez creek and the report will be submitted to the national green tribunal (NGT) soon. Speaking to TOI, GSPCB chairman
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