Residents of Cuddalore town have protested a proposal of the textile and the knitwear industries to set up a common effluent treatment plant (CETP) in the coastal area .

A government survey reveals that the sewage from cities, villages and towns is polluting the state’s rivers in a much bigger way than industrial wastes.

High Pollutant Levels In Discharge Of Several CETPs

Ahmedabad: Three Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC) estates — those in Vatva, Odhav and Naroda — and the industry cluster in Kathwada are under the scanner for polluting river Sabarmati. The state industries department is now desperately seeking some accountability from the common effluent treatment plants (CETPs) in treating industrial effluents. The department found from data with the Gujarat Pollution Control Board that, in the last four years, discharge norms set by the central pollution control board were not met. This has become a matter of concern for the state government.

The century-old Navalur lake, built in 1887 to meet the drinking water needs of surrounding villages and irrigation requirements of around 68 acres of land, may soon die if the indiscriminate disch

The Department of Environment on Monday fined 42 dyeing and washing factories in Dhaka district Tk 1.26 crore for polluting the water of the Buriganga River.

The sight of millions of litres of toxic effluents and domestic sewage being let into the Sabarmati at Vasna barrage will wrench any heart-especially the way the river is choked to nothing more tha

The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has directed the state Pollution Board to install online quality monitoring systems within 90 days.

AGRA: Around 100 nilgais have died in Saurai, Agra district, after allegedly drinking the highly contaminated water of the Karvan river.

Panic-stricken villagers, who said the water has turned poisonous due to effluents being discharged by factories in Hathras and Aligarh, added that their heath and crops, too, have been severely affected. One of them said animals have died in the past as well and that "farmers suffer burns to their feet while irrigating the fields because of the toxic water".

Besides executing a study of the Hudiara Drain pollution and its treatment issue, the government intends to raise the issue with neighboring India, The Nation has learnt.

Over 3 hundred bigha cultivated land was washed away as the dyke of sugar mill waste pond collapsed in Dashuria of Ishwardi Upazila under the district Saturday.