The Daily Mirror news report on 20.3.2009 highlighting the deteriorated state of Ambagasdowa water supply scheme has been an eye opener to the relevant authorities.

A floating dredge lowered a clamshell bucket to the bottom of the Hudson River on Friday and pulled up a load of muck contaminated with PCBs

A committee comprising representatives of different political parties and NGOs has demanded that release of polluted water from the Punjab into Sindh be stopped in order to save rich agriculture lands from further destruction.

Pune The city

Pune District Collector Chandrakant Dalvi has assured the villagers of Uruli Devachi and Phursungi that an alternative site for dumping the city

Pune 7 months & no longer, villagers promised

The weeklong stir by villagers of Phursungi and Uruli Devachi was called off on Thursday after the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) assured that the dumping of garbage in the villages would be stopped after seven months. Garbage had piled up in Pune city as villagers had blocked dumping.

Pune Though the district and civic authorities have promised to start segregating the dry and wet garbage in the next three months and that open dumping of garbage will be stopped in six months, the villagers of Urali Devachi and Phursungi on Monday deferred any decision regarding the Pune Municipal Corporation lifting garbage from the bins.

Pune The deadlock over the dumping of garbage at the depot near Uruli Devachi and Phursungi villages continued on Sunday as the village representatives stayed away from a meeting convened by the District Collector to resolve the issue. The Pune Municipal Corporation, meanwhile, remained non-committal on lifting garbage from the overflowing bins in the city.

Pune With the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) failing to segregate wet and dry garbage before dumping it on Uruli Devachi, villagers there on Thursday blockaded the site and forced the civic administration to look for alternative solutions.

Even as the Corporation of City of Panaji (CCP) feigned complete ignorance over the garbage disposal from the off shore casinos, the corporation