Ahmedabad: For many years now, owing to high cost of toxic waste treatment, hundreds of chemical industries surrounding city have been discharging their toxic waste illegally into city drainage system in areas like Vatva, Naroda, Odhav and Narol. Ideally these units should be sending their discharge to central effluent treatment plants (CETP).

New Delhi: Within six years, the status of a prominent water body in the national capital has changed from a

KARUR: Safe disposal of sludge generated by the dyeing units in Karur district continues to be a problem as the Treatment, Storage and Disposal Facility planned at Mathagiri village has not taken off despite getting all governmental clearance.

The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSCB) had issued an ultimatum recently to six private hospitals threatening closure if effluent treatment plants (ETPs) were not put in place for disposal of liquid waste. A reality check done by Deccan Herald at some of the hospitals revealed that work in this connection has not even commenced, on account of various reasons.

The Government is all set to fix responsibility for pollution of the Yamuna. In its first initiative, the Delhi Government is to bring a law in an effort to direct the polluting industries and establishments in the confines of Delhi to check pollution right in their backyards. They would be asked to install mini-Sewage Treatment Plants to check pollutants before draining them into the Yamuna.

28 Jan 2009, 0002 hrs IST, Rajeev Deshpande, TNN

NEW DELHI: Concerned over reports of water at Patancheru in Medak near Hyderabad containing drug residues that are as high as 150 times the levels detected in US, PMO has asked for testing of samples and a report on the composition of the pharmaceutical cocktail within a week.

Jalandhar: The leather complex in Jalandhar will get the second module of the common effluent treatment plant (CETP) in November this year.