CHENNAI: The council meeting of the Alandur municipality witnessed protest and heated arguments over the alleged mixing of sewage with drinking water in the area.

NewDelhi:The MCD has constituted a valuation committee to assess the cost of buying all the eight caf

SHILLONG: Residents of Keating Road, Malki, Laitumkhrah and Lachuamiere areas in Shillong are facing drinking water crisis because a 12-inch-diameter feeder pipe of the British-era reservoir that can hold 50,000 litres of water was damaged when it rained incessantly in the city recently.

Urban Affairs Minister Ampareen Lyngdoh, after inspecting the reservoir, said her department was taking eme

Looking to rein in polluters, the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) will soon prohibit industries, offices and residences under its jurisdiction from disposing sewerage water at non-designated places.

Authorities said the move is meant to stop the present practice of sewerage water and other effluents being dumped in green belts and roads across the city.

MCG Commissioner Sudhir Rajpal

MUMBAI: The BMC may have started preparing for the worst for this summer but the situation at the six lakes that supply water to the city is in fact much better compared to what it was at the same time last year. A weak monsoon so far this year has given officials jitters but there is 1,74,295 lakh million litres of water in the lakes compared to 71,520 million litres last year.

No more dumping on locality, say residents of Kelugude

The threat of an epidemic outbreak is looming over the town, which now has garbage heaps in various prime spots.

When development is rapid and environment is under focus, it is not enough to have buildings that can just be called green.

More number of measurable and verifiable green buildings are needed to answer all those who ask:

Govt to launch drive to collect photographic data of 918 listed water bodies
The city

AJMER: The sewerage lines of Pushkar have started overflowing with the onset of monsoon in the region.

With drain water entering the holy Pushkar lake, the priests of Brahma temple are an agitated lot.

LUCKNOW: The executive committee of the Lucknow Municipal Corporation has termed the work of cleaning the city drains as `inefficient`, even as continuous rains hit the city for the past few days.

Committee chairman and city mayor Dinesh Sharma on Friday convened a meeting with various corporators and members of the committee to assess the situation.