Plants in Villivakkam, Sholinganallur, Navalur to process nearly 240 million litres of sewage daily

Three more sewage treatment plants would come up across the city to treat sewage generated from the ever-expanding city. At present, Chennai has a capacity to treat a total of 558 million litres of sewage being generated daily in 11 units set up at six locations. Work is on to set up sewage treatment plants with a capacity to treat 228 mld in four more spots.

Forty-six per cent of sewage generated in Delhi is flowing into the Yamuna untreated through storm water drains, said a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India that was tabled

The residents of Rajarajeshwari Nagar are up in arms against the plans of the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to ‘rejuvenate’ the Halagevaderahalli Lake at a cost of Rs two crore.

This, at a time, when the residents’ efforts to save one of the City’s oldest water bodies, are bearing fruits. The Palike has created an island in the middle of the water body and built the lake bund, along with beautifying the entire area. It has also laid drains that would fetch rainwater flowing through side drains of the residential locality.

The largely ADB-funded project will possibly be floated some time later this year

Punjab is passing through a phase of ‘fiscal stress’ and is borrowing heavily to pay interest on loans, leaving little money for development.

The Beijing Water Authority said the capital will set up 46 new water recycling plants and upgrade 20 sewage treatment plants in the next three years, Beijing Times reported.

SmartCity Kochi has failed to secure environment clearance within 45 days as declared by Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on January 31. The company has not even filed a fresh application for environment clearance.

The Hindu had reported on January 30 that the State Expert Appraisal Committee (SEAC) had deferred its recommendation for environmental clearance for the first phase of the project.

Long-term measures needed as livelihood of farmers being seriously affected, says Sushma

Pilloried by Parliamentarians in both Houses over the state of the Ganga and the Yamuna, Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan promised that the government would ensure no domestic effluents pour into the two rivers. “We are making efforts to make that happen. We should have a commission to ensure that there is no atrocity against rivers,” she said after members, first in the Lok Sabha and then in the Rajya Sabha, expressed anguish over thousands of crores of rupees that have spent in trying to clean up the two major arteries in north India but to no avail.