A federal panel sketched out its first vision of a regulatory roadmap for the booming shale natural gas industry on Thursday, urging more transparency on the use of chemicals and more careful treat

KRISHNAGAR, 7 AUG: The state public health engineering department (PHE) today started two water supply projects at Kashiadanga in Nakashipara and Bhagyabantapur in Kaliganj to provide arsenic-free

All around Stephen Askew was raw sewage, eight feet deep, flooding a crippled waste-treatment plant in Harlem. But Mr. Askew never had a choice; he had to go in.

HENNAI: Finance minister O Panneerselvam on Thursday announced two major initiatives for Chennai city —the Chennai Mega City Development Mission (CMCDM), to be implemented at Rs 500 crore, and augmentation of the reservoir capacity by 4.20 tmcft at a cost of Rs 1,851 crore.

Presenting the Budget for 2011-12 in the Assembly, the minister said storage capacities at Thervaikandigai, Thirukandalam and Ramanjeri reservoirs would be increased by 1 tmcft each.

A Project that could have taken a few more years to be resolved due to the inter-state water sharing dispute between Delhi and Haryana, the Munak carrier-line channel, is finally on the fast track.

New Delhi: It

KOLKATA, 15 JULY: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will supply 235 Million Gallon Per day (MGD) of filtered water to the city, mayor Mr Sovan Chatterjee, said today.

He was speaking during the handing over of the Garden Reach Water Treatment Plant from Kolkata Metropolitan Water and Sanitation Authority (KMWSA) to KMC.

Mr Chatterjee said the Garden Reach water treatment plant is now

Uttar Pradesh's first sewage treatment plant (STP) has started functioning in Noida.
After checking and ensuring its norms and parameters, Noida Authority officials formally started its operations.

In March 2009, the Noida authority started the work on building the 27 million litre/day (MLD) capacity STP in Sector 54. Earlier, it was to start functioning on March 2011.