Hospicio hospital was caught on the wrong foot on the sanitation front as its overflowing soakpit waters entered the main road, emitting foul odour and posing health hazard to the citizens.
The sewage water was apparently overflowing due to a choked sewage chamber, sources said.

Despite the reports of the occurrence of perfluorochemicals (PFCs) in industrialized nations, information on PFCs in less industrialized countries is meager.

Intrinsic antibiotic resistance has been a fact of bacterium life since long before humans discovered the use of antibiotic drugs. However, the introduction of pharmaceutical antibiotics in the 1940s and explosion in use ever since dramatically accelerated the spread of antibiotic-resistance genes.

May 27: The developing port town of Kakinada is headed for an ecological disaster. It

K.T. Sangameswaran

CHENNAI: The State Human Rights Commission has asked the Managing Director of the Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board and other authorities to enquire and send a report regarding stagnation of effluents on GST Road at Pallavaram.

Discharge of untreated sewage and effluents into the highly contaminated Xelpem lake and the polluted River Sal has finally come under the scanner of the South Goa Disaster Management Committee. A sub-committee comprising of the Margao Municipal Council, PWD Sewerage and the Pollution Control Board has been constituted to find out short term solutions to arrest further pollution of the lake and

Sukh Ram strips to his bare minimum and slithers into a stinky manhole as traffic whizzes above him. With no masks to protect against odious fumes, no protective gloves and a primitive spade as a tool, his job is to clean a choked drain of muck so that it does not overflow when monsoon hits the city.

The city residents are vulnerable to floods during monsoon and epidemics, as Capital Development Authority (CDA) releases untreated sewage into Leh Nullah, said Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) Managing Director (MD) Col (R) Islamul Haq on Thursday.

Deepa H Ramakrishnan

New Delhi: The blame game on desilting of drains has already begun before the onset of monsoons. Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), on Wednesday, claimed that while it was held responsible for desilting of Public Works Department

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