After the death of 10 blackbucks, the lives of rest 73 blackbucks in the National Zoological Park in the national Capital are in danger. Due to the consumption of polluted water, the blackbucks are suffering from severe toxemia and intestinal infection. Till now, the zoo authorities have not shifted the bucks to a safer enclosure.

The Environmental Protection Agency has designated Newtown Creek, between Brooklyn and Queens, a Superfund site, promising a thorough environmental cleanup of a long-neglected waterway that was once one of the busiest hubs of industrial activity in the city.

The Superfund designation, which was announced on Monday by the agency

Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency (PAK-EPA) has accused the Capital Development Authority (CDA) of not complying with the directives of Chief Justice of Pakistan and ensure that neither polluted nor contaminated water flows into Rawal Lake, Business Recorder has learnt.

Documents available with this correspondent revealed that PAK-EPA wrote a letter to the civic body on September 17, 201

The Environment Ministry has constituted a special cell to monitor industrial organisations, contributing to water and air pollution, while the industrial sector has been directed to ensure installation of treatment plants otherwise legal actions would be taken against them.

This decision was taken in a meeting held here on Wednesday to review the main causes along with remedial measures to cur

The Punjab-Environmental Protection Agency (Punjab-EPA) on Sunday served notices on the owners of 160 commercial and residential buildings in and around Murree for discharging sewage into water streams and causing serious environmental pollution.

The provincial environmental watchdog has taken action against the commercial and residential buildings under the Supreme Court orders to save Rawal L

KOCHI: The single most health hazard for people living in the suburbs and surrounding villages of Kochi is the disposal of sewage in public places.

There is hardly any attempt on the part of the authorities to take action against unauthorised septic tank cleaning agencies.

As a result such agencies are mushrooming in the city.

THE Madras HC has restrained the SRM University from letting out waste water, soaked sewer age, medical waste and other untreated biomedical w a s t e f ro m t h ei r premises to the sur rounding places and housing colo nies.

K. Manikandan

Contamination will be stopped, say officials

Untreated raw and sewage water in the stormwater drain around the Tirupananthal lake in Pammal poses a health hazard.

TAMBARAM: There seems to be no end to the onslaught on Tirupananthal lake in Pammal near Tambaram.

The Water Supply and Sewerage Disposal Committee of the Municipal Corporation has approved the installation of water features in various green belts of the city. In a meeting held today, the committee gave an approval to shift, construct road gullies and lay new pipelines.