HYDERABAD: Promoters of IVRCL and Kemira Oyj of Finland have agreed to form a joint venture to manufacture water treatment chemicals at Visakhapatnam.

The unit to be set up with an estimated $10 million investment is expected to be operational in six to eight months.

Kemira, IVRCL and its construction equipment and water infrastructure arm Hindustan Dorr-Oliver (HDO) have also decided to for

Anantapur, Oct.

The enough intake of water is necessary for our health. The doctors advise us to drink pure water but the water is polluted these days by many reasons. There are harmful chemical, carbonic combination , germs and bacteria which have been mixed into the water. This harmful elements can be neither seen and be tasted but many diseased are caused by it like Asthma.

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu government has provided Rs 100 crore budgetary support to Metro Water for the current financial year in helping it buy water from Chennai Water Desalination Limited (CWDL) and till now Minjur desalination plant has supplied about 3,815 MLD of water, according to Metro Water managing director Shiv Das Meena.

Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Meena said the government is cu

The Pune-based National Institute of Virology has identified Pureit as one of the two water purifiers which meets the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) standard for virus removal. The institute conducted a test on eight popular domestic water purification systems on protection of consumers against virus. Six of the eight devices tested did not meet the standards.

KOLKATA: Within a year of launch of the

Jorhat, Aug. 31: A Rs 55.04-crore project will supply purified water of the Brahmaputra to Jorhat homes and wash away fears of arsenic contamination in every gulp.

DoNER minister Bijoy K.

Surajeet Das Gupta / New Delhi August 30, 2010, 0:25 IST

It has been a quiet revolution. The country

Viveat Susan Pinto / Mumbai August 30, 2010, 0:22 IST

The fight between HUL and Eureka Forbes is a square one in the water storage market.

The Pallonji group-controlled Eureka Forbes had a solo run in the Rs 1,500-crore water purification market for long.