A formal assessment of power plant effluents dispersion and sediment transport
processes taking place with respect to the prevailing environmental conditions
such as, flow regime, wave climate, wind effects etc.
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Water Resources Minister Jayant Malaiya said in the Assembly today that there had been no policy underlined so far by the Housing and Environment Department for disposal of toxic waste of the now-closed plant of Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL).
Solan: Detection of toxic chemical phenyl from the viscera of dead fish, which were killed in Chikni river early this month, has set alarm bells ringing for the State Pollution Control Board.
These findings have emerged from the twin reports of two laboratories of the pollution board as well as the Shimla-based laboratory of the Veterinary Department.
The Assam Electricity Regulatory Commission has proposed to start Renewable Purchase Obligation (RPO) under a new regulation and has notified a draft Solar Tariff Regulations which will be applicable from the current financial year.
A Committee of Parliament visited the slaughterhouse in Meerut on June 10 to enquire if it was polluting the Kali Nadi river that flows through the city. A seasonal river that once provided irrigation and drinking water to 44 villages in Meerut district of Uttar Pradesh, Kali Nadi has turned poisonous. The slaughterhouse waste is only a part of the problem.
HALDIA, 13 JULY: Many industries which deal with hazardous chemicals and highly inflammable articles in Haldia have not yet been able to launch their own risk management system in order to prevent any industrial or chemical disaster.
Millions of people in Uttar Pradesh are drinking water contaminated with traces of cadmium, fluoride, arsenic, nitrates and lead, says a recently released Government report.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Groundwater levels in Pudussery grama panchayat, Palakkad, where Pepsico has its unit, are falling, the Assembly was told on Thursday.
After Coca-Cola, another soft drink major, Pepsi, has come on the radar of the LDF government in Kerala, which has alleged its plant in Palakkad district is extracting excess ground water and discharging effluents and solid wastes with pollutants.
The plant at Pudussery was found to have been depleting the water table in the locality over the years, the state assembly was informed today.
