Chandrawal and Wazirabad WTPs resume operations after pollution levels in Yamuna receded on Tuesday night; CPCB to submit report.
Operations at the Capital

Jal Board blames Haryana industrial waste being pumped into the Yamuna
For a second time in less than a month, two of the city's water treatment plants were forced to scale down production on account of high levels of ammonia in the Yamuna waters. On Tuesday the levels of ammonia rose sharply, making the water unfit for use.

BHAWANIPATNA: Fly ash, red mud and lime grit are some of the wastes generated by alumina refineries and if not properly disposed of, these may cause health hazards. But the enterprising have the Midas touch. Many ancillary units have come up in the district which are thriving on these wastes. They use the wastes as material.

Noted ecologist Vandana Shiva on Thursday urged the youth to have an ecological parliament to save the earth.

Talwara (Hoshiarpur): Industrial units in Himachal Pradesh continue to discharge toxic industrial waste into the tributaries of Beas and Sutlej rivers.

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Hoshiarpur: Contrary to the claims of the state government for preventing discharge of municipal and industrial wastes into the two main rivers of the Doaba belt, the situation has not shown any improvement.

Though the government has taken up a scheme under the National River Conservation Project (NRCP), phase II, being executed by the Punjab Water Supply and Sewerage Board, defiling of Sutlej

The supply of drinking water in vast areas of north Kolkata and the northern suburbs was affected after a 72-inch underground pipe of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation developed cracks this morning.
The mayor, Mr Sovan Chatterjee, along with senior officials of the water supply department, rushed to the spot and began repair work.

TWO Common Ef fluent Treatment plants (CETPs), 86 dyeing and washing units attached to these CETPs and an Individual Effluent Treatment Plant (IETP) were closed down by the Tirupur branch of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) on Wednesday, as the units were found to be discharging effluents into the Noyyal river.

Based on complaints, a team of TNPCB officials, led by District Enviro