Nangal: The Nangal Municipal Council is all set to have a new treatment plant to meet with requirements of those areas that are dumping their sewage into the Sutlej thereby polluting it.

From the chungi No. 1 area, the polluted water falls into nullah and further mingles with the Sutlej dumping muck even in the national notified Nangal wetland.

With the endangered dolphins proving to be effective indicators to evaluate the success of the ongoing Ganga Action Plan, by virtue of their survivability in the river water, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-India is mooting the Dolphin Action Plan.

Ranesh Nair, Isher J Ahluwalia

: Water availability per capita in India is reaching critical levels, and with a much faster pace of urbanisation expected in the coming decades, treatment of waste water for returning to rivers and reuse in industry assumes great importance. Navi Mumbai has shown the way.

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The Punjab and Haryana High Court directed the Punjab Pollution Control Board to file an affidavit on time-bound programme for the installation of the Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) in the Budha Nullah pollution case. The information has to be furnished by August 9 - the next date of hearing, which has been fixed for August 9.

Officials of the Goa State Pollution Control Board on Tuesday returned back to Colva, this time to probe into the discharge of sewage by a beach resort.

KOCHI: To give an uplift to the existing sewerage system, the Kochi Corporation has come up with a plan to introduce an underground sewage project in the city.

The objective of the project is to ensure improvement in urban hygiene and sanitation that will in turn improve public health.

A major breach in the Yamuna flowing near the Bawana area in Outer Delhi on Sunday forced the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) authorities to shut down its 140-MGD (million gallons a day) water treatment plant (WTP) at Haiderpur and the 40-MGD Nangloi WTP, the main source of water supply to West and Southwest Delhi.

Pune While the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has to invest crores of rupees to set up a Sewage Treatment Plant