The United Nations reminded all countries on March 22, World Water Day, that humanity continues to impose a staggering burden on rivers, lakes, and deltas each year in the form of pollution. What the UN has highlighted in its report titled

Pune The Pune Municipal Corporation is inter-connecting sewage treatment plants to meet its target of 100 per cent treatment of waste generated every day, after it hit hurdles particularly in the morning, when waste generated is maximum.

NEW DELHI: Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, who is also the chairperson of the Delhi Jal Board, on Thursday gave her approval for the DJB's Plan outlay of Rs.1,624.37 crore for the financial year 2010-11.

New Delhi: In its budget for the year 2010-11 with a total plan outlay of Rs 1,624.37, Delhi Jal Board (DJB) seems to have accorded a significant amount to the cleaning of the Yamuna with Rs 595 crore for sewerage and Rs 124.47 crore for YAP-II.

Pune Though the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) implemented a project that drew accolades for generating power from garbage, it has been found to be doing little to pull out enough power from a special turbine set up at the Naidu sewage treatment plant, which is able to generate power from sewage water.

Off to a start: Work being launched on modern integrated compost yard at Venkatamangalam near Vandalur on Wednesday.

TAMBARAM: Effluents discharged from common sewage treatment plants will be pure enough to be used in industrial units, gardening and other purposes, Niranjan Mardi, Secretary, Department of Municipal Administration and Water Supply, said on Wednesday.

When you visit the beautiful green grounds covering an area close to 48 acres in Gorai, in the western suburbs of Mumbai, by the side of a creek overlooking Asia

What should and can be done to clean the Yamuna? What is the strategy for business-unusual so that we can spend more money but this time get returns of a living and breathing river.