Kochi In an effort to standardise prices of packaged drinking water bottles, the Kerala Bottled Water Manufacturers Association today fixed the maximum retail price (MRP) for one litre at Rs 15.

"The decision ... is in the backdrop of consumers being fleeced by shop owners by charging exorbitant prices on bottled drinking water," KBWA President M E Mohamed told reporters here.

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The Baroda District Co-operative Milk Producers Union Limited popularly known as Baroda Dairy will revive its Narmada Neer project which is lying on deathbed since a year.

The district co-operative dairy union will bring Narmada Neer bottles and pouches back on the shelf before first week of October. The dairy union has already conducted production trials for the relaunch of the project.

Year-on-year increases in the number of new micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) set up in Uttarakhand over the last four years show that the hill industrial policy is slowly yielding results in the state.

The policy came into effect in 2008 to encourage the growth of MSMEs. The government claims that between then and June this year, more than 3,000 small (mostly micro) units, entailing an investment of Rs 400 crore and employing an estimated 12,000 people, have been set up.

Unauthorised bottled water business is thriving in the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi, as the authorities concerned have failed to implement the relevant laws to curb the production of bot

Water treated for impurities so as to make it potable does not involve transformation of water into a different commercial product known to the market, the litmus test applied for determining wheth

While bottles of mineral water are increasingly becoming a major cause of pollution, not much is being done about it.

If you think you are consuming packaged water and thus you are safe, you may be wrong. The report card of the State Health Department on water samples shows that water could be substandard, even if it is stored in a sealed container.

Of the eight packaged drinking water samples analysed by the Public Health Institute of the department of Health and Family Welfare in June, seven (87.5 per cent) were found to be substandard and thus did not meet the prescribed specification of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS).

The State government on Tuesday informed the Karnataka High Court that 564 mineral and packaged drinking water units in the State were functioning without the ISI certification and only 224 such units had ISI certification from Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS).

This information was given to a Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Vikramajit Sen and Justice Aravind Kumar during the hearing on a public interest litigation (PIL) petition complaining that a large number of such units are operating in the State without the mandatory ISI certification.