THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The new sewerage treatment plant to be set up by the City Corporation at Muttathara for 107 MLD activated sludge process will be inaugurated by Chief Minister V.S.Achuthanandan on March 2.

New Delhi: Lieutenant Governor Tejendra Khanna has announced he construction of sewage treatment plants (STPs) for 18 major drains flowing into the Yamuna.

People come to the Bhima river in Pandharpur, Maharashtra, to rejoice. They leave behind a drain Pandharpur, a pilgrim town on the banks of the Bhima river in Maharashtra, hosts four religious yatras every year. Over two million people take part in these yatras, which celebrate, among other things, four months (chatur maas) of Lord Vishnu

The Delhi Jal Board wants to cut down on its electricity bills, earn carbon credits, and all this by utilising bio-gas that is produced at its Okhla sewage treatment plant here in the Capital.

The Government is all set to fix responsibility for pollution of the Yamuna. In its first initiative, the Delhi Government is to bring a law in an effort to direct the polluting industries and establishments in the confines of Delhi to check pollution right in their backyards. They would be asked to install mini-Sewage Treatment Plants to check pollutants before draining them into the Yamuna.

Environment ministry admits bacteria is major river pollutant MAJOR rivers in India have high bacterial contamination, the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (moef) said in a press release dated December 24, 2008. Yamuna and Ganga top the list of most polluted rivers (see graph below). Bacterial contamination in water is indicated by the presence of coliform bacteria that find