The workers engaged in storage grain handling are exposed to storage grain dust and suffering from different respiratory problems. In the present study the respiratory function status of the load handling workers (LHW) of grain storage godowns are evaluated by detail static and dynamic pulmonary function tests (PFT).

Soil is a major component of any aquatic environment, which not only holds water for aquatic animals but also enriches the water body with various nutrients required for biological production.

Five years air monitoring study was carried out to assess the primary air pollutants present in the ambient air in Chennai city during 1999-2003 at two different sampling stations.

Preliminary study on the ammonium-biocarbonate di-ethylene-triamine penta acetic acid extractable heavy metals and their relationship with different soil properties were observed in twenty-one surface samples of newly established location of S.K. University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Jammu, at Chattha.

Assam Polyester Co-operative Society Limited (APOL) is situated at Rangia, which is at a distance of about 55 km from Guwahati, Assam. The mill discharges it treated effluent to the vast open area existing in the western side of the mill. People are having agricultural activities in western side of the mill and they complain very often about decreasing production from the land after the mill started operation.

In last few years, Sonebhadra district of Uttar Pradesh has been identified as endemic fluorosis affected region where a number of such cases have been reported in 18 villages. The study was undertaken to determine the severeness of the problem, for this a dental fluorosis survey of school students, monitoring of drinking water sources and awareness programme were conducted in the Jhiragadandi Naibasti village.

Microbial load in the groundwater and the physico-chemical characteristics of the water samples in and around the dumpsite of Dindigul town, Tamil Nadu, was studied. A microbial analysis of the leachate of the municipal solid waste, the ground water collected from the dumping yard and the ground water collected from a distance of 100 feet away from the dumping yard was also carried out to find out the effect of the municipal solid waste on the ground water quality.

Due to rapid growth of population and industrialization and urbanization there is a substantial increase in hospital and private nursing home as well as pathology labs in Satna. Thus the hospital waste is also increasing day by day.

Sequential batch reactor (SBR) process is basically a fill-and-draw activated sludge process. Being a very popular technology, SBR was not being frequently used for the treatment of wastewater like activated sludge process (ASP). This paper reviews two case studies, where SBR was used for capacity expansion of existing and ASP was converted to SBR.

Studies on the removal of zinc by adsorption on two types of flyashes, namely Bokaro Thermal Power Plant Fly ash and Fluidized Bed Combustion Fly Ash from Tata Steel, Jamadoba were carried out.