Indicted for killing fish: Thames Water, the largest water and wastewater services company in the UK, was recently ordered to pay US $180,643 by a UK court for accidentally releasing sodium hydroxide into the Wandle river in south west London in September, 2007. It turned the river milky and more than two tonnes of dead fish were found floating amidst a strong smell of bleach along

Engineering graduates return to their villages in Punjab to practise organic farming, fight pesticide overuse

Ahmedabad: Workers and their families in Vatva, Pirana, Narol prone to skin ailment, water-borne diseases

Lethal skin ailments and waterborne diseases are stalking thousands of workers and families in the industrial zones of Vatva, Pirana and Narol in the state.

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.

- Illegal mining and mushrooming sponge iron units spell pollution peril for Giridih

SHAHNAWAZ AKHTAR

Up in smoke: Iron and steel factory in Giridih
Giridih, Feb. 24: For a getaway once famed for its uncontaminated ambience, this is a shocker. Rampant mining of coal and mica and poison fumes billowing out of sponge iron factories have left Giridih in its dying breath.

Ahmedabad: After four days of breakdown in the mega pipeline in Vatva, neither Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) nor Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) have tested samples of overflowing effluent water in low-lying residential areas in the region.

Beijing: Authorities in eastern China cut off a city

Chandigarh: UT Administration replies to PIL seeking CNG, LPG be made mandatory for public vehicles

In response to a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking directions to make mandatory use of CNG or LPG for public vehicles in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh, the Chandigarh Administration has said that there is no vehicular or industrial pollution in the city.

Records of hazardous waste generated by the unit were not maintained Hazardous waste was being produced during several steps in production of aluminium. Waste from pots, or vessels in which final chemical reaction to produce aluminium takes place, was found containing cyanide and fluoride beyond permissible limits Waste produced by the plant included spent pot line, floor dust,