Chief Minister, Digambar Kamat has announced that the government would come out with a scheme to subsidise sewage connections to the citizens of Margao as he made an impassioned plea to the household owners to connect their septic tanks and soakpits to the sewage plant and avoid a health hazard.

While the new trenchless technology to lay sewer lines may bring relief to citizens hit by overflowing soakpits and septic tanks, there

Two days after the commissioning of a night soil tanker, there

Detailed project report on the Yamuna Interceptor Sewer Project prepared by EIL.The project will ensure that sewage from various drains that fall directly into the Yamuna, is diverted to the STPs where it will be treated first and then allowed to reach the river.

Owing to its enormous construction and maintenance costs, the management of wastewater in many urban centres of developing countries via a centralised wastewater management approach is very difficult. Often, untreated wastewater is directly discharged into adjacent natural water courses, causing a grave threat to both public health and the aquatic environment. A decentralised wastewater management approach is a prospective solution to overcome this adverse situation because of its low cost, simple operation and revenue return.

Pilgrims putting broken coconut pieces into the `homakundam

The otherwise-illuminated Central Plaza Mall in Gurgaon

MARGAO, NOV 12
Foul odour emanating from the sewage treatment plant brought PWD Minister, Churchill Alemao to the plant site at Sirvodem-Margao on Wednesday evening.

Hyderabad, Nov. 5: Thousands of families in the cantonment area are being forced to maintain separate septic tanks for sanitation. Though officials say that 75 per cent of the 65,000 households in 300 colonies are connected to the sewerage network which includes the underground drainage and septic tanks, only about 30,000 households in the area have access to underground drainage.

The objectives of the Interceptor Sewerage System Project are to provide a commercially, technically viable and feasible solution on a priority basis that can be provided within a short span of time which is effective in lowering the pollution in Yamuna River and improving water quality making it best fit for the

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