ADILABAD, March 28: Industries in the district, mainly ginning and oil mills, are indulging in grave violation of pollution norms, contaminating ground water, tanks and damaging standing crops and affecting yield in the surrounding villages besides causing death of cattle and fish.
Tirupur: Amid severe drinking water shortage experienced in the city and rapid deterioration of River Noyyal taking place owing to indiscriminate discharge of industrial effluents into it, yet another World Water Day was observed here on Monday.
THE untreated sewerage water of the cities is a big problem in Punjab with its stink making life a hell for the urbanites. With no treatment facilities at most of the places, water flows through open nullahs and pollute the water bodies, including rivulets, water streams and even the rivers.
TANNERIES in and around Chennai are dumping about 3,000 kilolitres of waste per day into the city's water- ways and the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board is working out strate- gies to make the units adhere to zero discharge, according to R Ramachan- dran, member secretary, TNPCB.
The manufacturing unit of a major pharmaceutical company located at Virgonagar in Bangalore has violated the norms for scientific disposal of effluent.
The Corporation of the City of Panjim (CCP) may have virtually abandoned the proposed garbage treatment plant at Bainguinim, but truckloads of highly toxic industrial waste and domestic garbage are clandestinely being dumped by miscreants at the site.
