Margao: Chief Minister Digambar Kamat has disclosed plans to convene a joint meeting with the concerned parties to review the status of the waste treatment plant at Sonsodo.
Bangalore, Improper disposal of solid waste, both by the public and Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is causing direct contamination of groundwater, according to Dr M A Farooqui, scientist, Central Ground Water Board (CGWB).
Delivering a lecture on 'Ground water management in Bangalore Metropolitan region' at the Geological Society of India here on Wednesday, Dr Farooqui said municipa
Distillation, reverse osmosis can help purify water
Water samples were found with undesirable levels of nitrate in Bangalore rural areas. Borewells in Bangalore Urban and Rural areas have shown the presence of high levels of nitrate, total hardness, pH and fluoride content, according to a recent study conducted by the Department of Mines and Geology.
Hoteliers enlist their rates
MARGAO, The deadlock between the Margao Municipal Council and the South Goa Hotel Owners Association over the implementation of door-to-door garbage collection continues over the question of collection fees.
The rates quoted by Margao Municipal Council are not acceptable to hotel owners, who have enlisted their own rates before the civic body.
Association President
SIVASAGAR, Disposal of urban waste such as municipal waste, biomedical waste, industrial waste, e-waste etc has become a big problem in India. Increasing production, consumption and improper disposal of waste have become the main source of pollution in air, soil and water.
PANJIM, The Corporation of the City of Panjim (CCP) in a special meeting on Friday passed a resolution to construct Municipal Solid Waste Management facility and sanitary land fill site at Taleigao. It also approved to construct compound wall and bio-fencing on a plot of land surveyed as 268/1(P), 273/2 (P), 273/3, 274/1 (P) which would form part of waste management plant.
Five-feet long, two-feet wide and about three feet in height, the biogas machine designed and developed by the Bangalore-based Scalene Cybernetics Limited looks a trifle unwieldy for the kitchen in an average flat.
The machine, though, has the potential of revolutionising the fuel use in urban households by ridding them of the ubiquitous LPG cylinders.
Several areas across the city faced water shortage on Monday after two major water treatment plants were closed following the detection of a high quantity of ammonia in the Yamuna.
