Environmental clearances for five major coal projects of Coal India that supply to NTPC’s three major plants — Vindyachal, Rihand and Singrauli — have been postponed.

New Delhi: Delhi Jal Board started full production at its Wazirabad and Chandrawal water treatment plants on Tuesday after the pollution load in the raw water started reducing.

Haryana, UP Industries Release Untreated Waste; City Water Plants Not Fully Equipped

New Delhi: The Delhi Jal Board had to reduce production in two major water treatment plants by half after ammonia levels in raw water spiked on Monday. This is not the first time DJB has been forced to take such a drastic step and will definitely not be the last. Hundreds of polluting industries in Haryana have been for years discharging untreated waste directly into the Yamuna, which then supplies water to Delhi.

A day after production at two of Delhi’s major water treatment plants had to be curtailed by 50 per cent after raw water from Haryana came laden with industrial pollutants, the water utility announ

Its inspection team finds high concentration of industrial, domestic waste in the river

An inspection team of the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) today identified the high concentration of industrial and domestic waste being discharged into the Yamuna in an untreated form as the major source of pollution in the river.

NDMC areas and parts of south and north Delhi may get less water on Tuesday as a spike in the level of dissolved ammonia forced Delhi Jal Board to cut back on water production at its Wazirabad and

Chandrawal and Wazirabad water treatment plants were forced to curtail production by 50 per cent due to high levels of pollution in the Yamuna, with ammonia levels rising to 1.2 ppm, against the permissible limit of 0.2 ppm.

According to the Delhi Jal Board (DJB), the release of untreated waste flows, mainly from industries through the Panipat drain into the Yamuna river, has been seen as the prime cause for the rise in pollution.

Delhi Pollution Control Committee has issued a show cause notice to the Okhla waste-to-energy plant for violating the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act.

A study by the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) has found air quality ‘very unhealthy’ in parts of Mumbai Metropolitan Region, Raigad and Chandrapur districts.