Varanasi (D)

Savitri Rai winces as she recounts how police beat her when she protested against groundwater extraction at a Coca-Cola Co. (KO) plant near her farm in India.

Publication Date:

09/10/2014

Source: Bloomberg

Tags:

Water Resources, Groundwater, India, Farmers, Coca Cola, Soft Drinks Industry, Drinking Water, Varanasi (D), Uttar Pradesh

Industry

Coca-Cola rapped for using too much water

Coca-Cola has been labelled a 'shameless and unethical company' after being forced to abandon a new $25m bottling plant in northern India because it was extracting too much groundwater.

Publication Date:

27/08/2014

Source: Edie (UK)

Tags:

Industry, Coca Cola, Water Resources, India, Soft Drinks Industry, Uttar Pradesh, National Green Tribunal (NGT), State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Central Groundwater Authority (CGWA), Varanasi (D)

Water Resources

Inland waterways project will ‘kill’ the Ganga, warn activists

Plans to construct 16 dams from Varanasi to Hooghly will convert river into 16 ponds

Publication Date:

07/08/2014

Author(s): Sandeep Joshi

Source: Hindu (New Delhi)

Tags:

Ganga, Varanasi (D), Dams, River Pollution, Ministry of Shipping Road Transport and Highways, Transport, Water Resources

Water Pollution

The lost river

In India, nothing encapsulates the failure of governance more than the unforgivable abuse of the Ganga, its largest and most vital source of freshwater.

Publication Date:

14/07/2014

Author(s): Asit Jolly

Source: India Today (New Delhi)

Tags:

India, Ganga, River Pollution, Ganga Action Plan, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Varanasi (D), Kanpur, Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP), Allahabad (T), High Court, Kanpur Tannery Case

Health

Japanese encephalitis threatens to run over Modi's constituency

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's constituency Varanasi is on the verge of a major Japanese encephalitis (JE) outbreak owing to its burgeoning pig population and scores of piggeries owned by more than

Publication Date:

03/07/2014

Author(s): Binay Singh

Source: Times Of India (Varanasi)

Tags:

Uttar Pradesh, Varanasi (D), Encephalitis, Vector Borne Diseases, Municipal Corporation, Population, Gorakhpur (D), Child Health, Health

Environment

NGT passes interim stay on order to shut down Coca Cola’s Varanasi plant

Coca Cola has received some relief from the National Green Tribunal, which has passed an interim stay on the UP pollution board’s order to shut down its plant in Mehdiganj, near Varanasi.

Publication Date:

20/06/2014

Source: Business Line (New Delhi)

Tags:

Uttar Pradesh, Varanasi (D), Coca Cola, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Central Groundwater Authority (CGWA), National Green Tribunal (NGT), Industrial Pollution, Environment

Industry

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding the order for the closure of the bottling plant of Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt. Ltd., Varanasi, 20/06/2014

Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of M/s Hindustan Coca- Cola Beverages Pvt. Ltd. v/s U.P Pollution Control Board. dated 20/06/2014. This appeal challenges an order of closure of the
Appellant unit Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt. Ltd., Varanasi dated 06-06-2014 following a show cause notice on 23rd May, 2014. The Tribunal has noted "so far as the industry which has also existed the Tribunal, is unable to

Judgement Date:

20/06/2014

Tags:

Coca Cola, Water Demand, Varanasi (D), Uttar Pradesh, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Court, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Central Groundwater Authority (CGWA)