Constructed wetlands (cws) for wastewater treatment may be part of the answer to the urgent need for a change in the approach to wastewater treatment in developing countries. Although thailand has several cws, there have been no studies of their sustainability. To remedy this, the sustainability of three promising cws in very different settings was assessed. These were located at koh phi phi, a world-renowned international tourist and holiday resort; sakon nakhon, a northeastern provincial capital; and ban pru teaw, a small post-tsunami village on the andaman coast.

Untreated waste water is a health hazard. Nonetheless, it should be considered a resource. Unless it is recycled and re-used, it will be impossible to provide all people in the cities of developing countries with safe drinking water. The example of India shows that agglomerations cannot get ever more fresh water from ever farther away.

New Delhi: With the fate of Renuka Dam hanging in balance, water experts have finally started declaring that Delhi has to become self sufficient and instead of augmenting its supply, needs to manag

Water bodies in Kerala, be they public ponds or public drains, are filled with waste of all conceivable variety round the year. During summer, the waste dumps in the water bodies dry up, leaving nothing but paste-like substance in which mosquitoes breed. Come rains and they hamper the free flow of water, thereby causing flooding in the areas abutting the water bodies.

New Delhi: This summer, Delhi will have an added 15 million gallons per day (MGD) of water at its disposal.

SHILLONG: Forest and Environment Minister Prestone Tynsong has admission that the iconic Ward’s Lake of Shillong is polluted due to discharge of untreated wastes from a hotel and the Shillong Club.

Replying to a Call Attention Motion on Thursday he said due to constant seepage of effluents even fishes were dying. He also informed that the Meghalaya State Pollution Control Board (MSPCB) had taken up the issue of non-compliance of environment rules by the polluters

Delhi’s two major water treatment plants — catering to 40 per cent of potable water supply in the city — had to be shut down on Tuesday, after raw water from Haryana came laden with industrial poll

CSE under its South Asia Programme organized the second batch of training programme on ‘Decentralised Wastewater Treatment and Reuse’ from 3-6 March, 2012 in partnership with Water Aid Bangladesh.

BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has asked some of the Central public sector undertakings (PSUs) to develop waste water treatment facilities as they were discharging their effluents into major riv

New Delhi: Irrigation needs in Haryana left the capital high and dry after the state reduced the water flow in the Yamuna at Tajewala Barrage.

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