Employees of the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) have decided to oppose the proposal of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to take over a sewage treatment plant (STP) with vacant land and buildings in Baghajatin.

Pilot project to tackle shortages, future increase in water demand

The Delhi Jal Board (DJB) will soon start a pilot project to recycle wastewater, in a bid to tackle the growing shortage of water in the Capital, and the demand that is expected during the Commonwealth Games in 2010.

Greeshma Gopal Giri | ENS
Chennai,
AS sewage treatment plants (STPs) have become mandatory in large construction sites having no alternative sewerage network, residents in high-rise buildings on the outskirts of the city have raised concern over the operation and maintenance of the plants.

Court told Delhi water utility officers

THE Delhi High Court has sentenced a former chief executive officer of the Delhi Jal Board and two other officers to two weeks in jail for not repairing sewer lines in the capital and letting the sewage flow into the Yamuna without treatment.

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