The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) on Thursday said it has served closure orders on 92 illegal packaged drinking units functioning around the city.

The National Green Tribunal Bench comprising Justice M.Chockalingam and Prof.R.Nagendran was hearing a case it had taken up on its own based on a news item in The Hindu revealing certain violations by the packaged drinking units.

Expressing displeasure over the “inaction” of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) against illegal packaged drinking units in the city, the National Green Tribunal, Southern Bench on Tuesday, asked TNPCB’s member-secretary to appear before it and provide explanation.

On March 5, the Bench took note of a news item which appeared in The-Hindu revealing violation of basic safety parameters in packaged drinking water units.

If you think packaged water is safe to consume, think again!.

Most of us have the habit of drinking water right out of bubble-top cans without qualms. But is the canned ‘mineral water’ safe enough?

The bottled water you are consuming either at home or outside isn't necessarily drinkable as it may not be processed involving standard procedure. The packaged water one may be consuming could possibly just be tap water or ground water. Out of nearly 53 bottling plants supplying packaged water in city, only 18 have ISI certificates.

With the summers setting in, leading to water shortage, consumption of packaged drinking water has shot-up in the city. According to an estimate, the city consumes anywhere between 30,000 to 40,000 bottles (20 liter capacity) of water per day.

Food safety authorities announced on Friday that plans to create new, unified national standards on bottled drinking water are under way - a move that experts believe is crucial to ensure the produ

About one third of bottled water sold in Beijing is measured by quality standards set by the producers, the Beijing News reported on Thursday.

Formation of Kerala Drinking Water Supply Company Ltd.

On April 9, Ponnath Devarajan, city councillor for Marad, a communally sensitive fishing hamlet that faces water shortage, moved a resolution before the Kozhikode Corporation Council against a government order for forming Kerala Drinking Water Supply Company Ltd.
He said the company, described by the Water Resources Department in its December 31, 2012, order as one modelled after Cochin International Airport Ltd., was a sheer effort to commodify water, a natural resource and public asset.

MNS has now decided to target the Rs 1,500-crore bottled water industry in the state.

The National Green Tribunal, which had directed for the closure of 34 packaged water plants in Noida and Greater Noida, has now directed for the formulation of methods by which the industries can o

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