President Asif Zardari has directed the City District Government Karachi (CDGK) to build a large sewerage dam, where industrial waste would also be collected and filtered, after which the water obtained would be used for parks and trees in the city as part of the Green City plan, Sindh Minister for Fisheries Zahid Ali Bhurgari told Daily Times.

Jyotika Sood
The much-awaited National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) report, on which industrialists, the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) and the state government have been banking upon, clearly states that no direct discharge, be it domestic sewage or industrial effluents, should be allowed in Buddha Nullah.

June 4: Climatic conditions in the state are clearly worsening. In fact, environmentalists say that the state capital is the sixth worst polluted city in the country.
Alarmingly, the Krishna and Godavari rivers, that contribute around 90 per cent of the state

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.

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.