S Lalitha, nov 5, Bangalore:

Respiratory and skin problems are on the rise in HBR Layout in the past 18 months, due to air and water pollution. Sewage from a broken pipeline in storm water drain has mixed with ground water. As a result, residents are scared to use water from the borewells.

Sewage waters have again come to haunt the authorities in the Commercial capital.
This time, the picturesque Dovondem lake at the northern entrance to the city has been left contaminated by the rampant discharge of sewage, so say locals.

If residents in Margao

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is likely to modify the proposal of setting up of grey water recycling facility to treat household non-toxic waste water, by asking the builders to develop the space above the treatment plant as garden.

A 300-sq ft area must be compulsorily designated for the recycling tank on top of which the space will have to be utilised for garden.

Mumbai The rule will be applicable to all bulk consumers in the city, say BMC officials

Five star hotels in Colaba and Churchgate may soon have to buy water that is recycled at sewage water treatment plants set up by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).

The Rashtrapati Bhawan is using a technology that will be introduced in Delhi over the next 8 to 10 months.

The President

Villagers of Bambolim today compelled Goa Medical College (GMC) authorities to repair the overflowing chamber of its Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) as stinking sewage water made its way into the village.

Aarti Dhar

NEW DELHI: The National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) on Monday approved an ambitious project to prevent the discharge of untreated municipal sewage and industrial effluent into the Ganga by 2020.

THE Madras High Court has asked the gover nment of Tamil Nadu to tell if there was any deviation from the original scheme for the implementation of the Chennai City River Water Conservation Project (CCRCP) and to specify if defects were found in the materials that were used like pipes.