Around 400 residents demonstrated outside Mahestala municipality on Tuesday morning demanding immediate removal of denim dyeing and bleaching units from the area.

According to the protesters, the 1,500-plus denim dyeing units in the area

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.

The current study uses contingent valuation technique to estimate the value of clean water in river Musi in Hyderabad, India. The main source of pollution of the river is untreated domestic and industrial wastewater from the urban area of Hyderabad.

Megha Mann
Tribune News Service
Nangal, January 28

The teams of Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) and Punjab State Council for Science and Technology (PSCST) today visited the Bela Dhyani village where a large number of dead fish was found floating in the Sutlej waters on January 25.

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.

Patancheru (Medak, AP): Patancheru became a hub for largely unregulated chemical and drug factories in the 1980s, creating what is described locally as an

PATANCHERU: When researchers analyzed vials of treated wastewater from a plant where about 90 Indian drug factories dump their residues, they Drug-polluted stream in Andhra Pradesh Drug waste creates highest disaster zone in Andhra Pradesh were shocked. Powerful antibiotic was being spewed into one stream each day to treat every person in a city of 90,000.

The Materials Technology Section (MTS), with the support of the Environment Technology Section and the Marketing and Business Development Department of the ITI has designed and installed a boiler which can use waste polyester material from the garment factories processed into briquettes, as the fuel source for the boilers.

The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Centre and Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat Governments to resolve the issue relating to disposal of around 350 metric tonnes of hazardous toxic waste from the now-defunct Union Carbide India Ltd

TACKLING TRASH

Melvyn Thomas | TNN

Surat: After joining hands for Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC), Japan will partner Surat-based Gujarat Enviro Protection and Infrastructure Limited (GEPIL) to make Gujarat a

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