A gut wrenching odour emanating from the greenish yellow coloured “water” flowing down the Popular Mudaliar channel hits the nostrils forcing one to back off the channel banks.

Bangalore’s unprecedented fall into the depths of waste management standards has triggered global attention, even a dramatic New York Times article.

While many took offence at this inglorious attack on the city’s image, the civic agencies might have to depend on international help to arrest this dangerous slide into absolute chaos. German help, to be precise. On a visit to Bangalore, the German State Secretary for Economic Cooperation, Gudrun Kopp elaborated on this vital input and how the experience of Germany’s enduring 12-year partnership with the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) on waste management might just turn the tide.

The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board has detected four dyeing units for discharging effluents into the open during raids conducted over the last few days ending on Thursday.

Official sources said of the four units, three units were carrying out fabric dyeing with the help of winches and the other one was involved in the dyeing of accessories like zip and button.

The central government has pledged to launch a national program to speed up efforts to control and improve the country's soil protection.

Increasing amounts of industrial waste are being pumped into the Ganga river, transforming its waters into killer pollutants.

PANJIM: Construction of the state’s sole hazardous waste treatment plant that would have taken care of total 3.30 lakh metric tones of waste at Dharbandora now seems to be a distant dream, with har

The Pasakha industrial estate problem will be dealt with only in November

PANJIM: Goa’s 16 major private and public sector companies in the field of power generation, steel production, liquor, fertilizers and pharmaceuticals were issued show cause notices on Thursday by Goa State Pollution Control Board for failing to install online stack emission, effluent and ambient air quality monitoring system.

GSPCB Member Secretary Levinson Martin who issued the notices, has asked the companies to reply within 15 days, failing which action would be taken to close the units. The Board has said that in letters dated April 21, 2011, August 8, 2011 and January 10, 2012 the companies were directed to take immediate measures for installation of the system by June 2012, but they failed to act.