Senior BJP leader and former Union Minister Vijay Goel on Tuesday met Union Water Resources Minister Saiffudin Soz and accused the Delhi Government as well as the Delhi Jal Board of failure to clean
The Supreme Court took exception to the Centre's nonchalant approach in implementing the Ganga Action Plan that failed to contain industrial pollution of river water despite the fact that several
Coastal cities and towns let untreated sewage flow into the sea, causing pollution of sea-water. Cities of Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Surat and Chennai contribute to about half the pollution in coastal
The Tamil Nadu government has sought the assistance of World Bank to turn around the highly-polluted waterways in the city into navigable channels, announced Public Works Minister Duraimurugan. while
The Public Works Department (PWD) has engaged a floatermounted porclain to desilt the Cooum River to clear blockages before the onset of monsoon. The silt from the river is being removed in a
Expressing concern over over exploitation of ground water that has led to decline in the water table in different parts of Lucknow, state Ground Water Department director MM Ansari said that if
Two environmental official were fired over a chemical spill that forced authorities to cut off water supplies to 80,000 people last month in central China. In early September, high levels of arsenide
Groundwater monitoring was carried out in Tarikere taluk during December 2004. The samples were analyzed for trace metals, such as iron, cadmium, lead, copper, zinc, nickel and barium.
Water samples from Gaula river and water accumulated in the tension cracks of the nearby hill side which are prone to slide due to complex geotechnical problems and later converge in the river near Amiya village, Nainital district, Uttaranchal, have been analysed geochemically, in order to understand the quality of water and level of contamination.
This EIA report on 10,000 mw Jaitapur nuclear power plant being set up by NPCIL in Ratnagiri says that, this project will have no impact on ecology of the region. However it has not been shared with affected villages. The project has met with strong protests from people whose lands were acquired under protest.