Filtered water supply to Kolkata will go up by 20 million gallons per day (MGD), as mayor Firhad Hakim inaugurated a new treatment plant at Palta in North 24 Parganas district, on March 12, … READ FULL STORY
The NGT directed the Environment Ministry on Wednesday to issue within two months a notification banning RO purifiers where total dissolved solids (TDS) in water are below 500 milligrams per litre. A bench, headed … READ FULL STORY
The bustling Salt Lake area, on the eastern fringes of Kolkata, is shrinking at an alarming rate, a top scientist at the Geological Survey of India said. Salt Lake, mostly built by filling up … READ FULL STORY
The World Resources Institute’s Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas, has ranked India 13th among 17 countries, on the list of ‘extremely high’ water stressed countries. India has more than three times the population of the … READ FULL STORY
A leading real estate developers association, on June 18, 2019, termed as ‘unrealistic’, the Karnataka government’s plan to impose a five-year ban on the construction of multi-storeyed residential buildings in Bengaluru, in view of … READ FULL STORY
While a borewell is usually used to extract groundwater, this structure can also be used to harvest rainwater and recharge the groundwater table, says Hyderabad-based Subash Reddy, director of Smaran, an organisation that works … READ FULL STORY
The Noida Authority has said that it aims to mobilise public support, for the conservation of water during the monsoon and revive wetlands in Sector 91, Sector 85, Gejha and Bakhtawarpur villages, besides two … READ FULL STORY
A bench headed by National Green Tribunal (NGT) chairperson justice Adarsh Kumar Goel, while noting that illegal installation of tubewells was an offence under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, asked the Delhi Jal Board … READ FULL STORY
Social service organisation, Sulabh International, known for achieving success in cost-effective sanitation, on December 5, 2018, started an innovative water project in Mirzapur village in Bolpur that will convert contaminated pond water into pure … READ FULL STORY
Rampant groundwater extraction and erratic supply from treatment plants, has deepened a potable water crisis in several parts of Gurugram, residents claim. People living in DLF Phase One, Two, Three, Four and Five, South … READ FULL STORY
A National Green Tribunal (NGT) bench, headed by justice RS Rathore, has directed the Railways to seek a ‘no-objection certificate’ (NOC) from the Central Ground Water Authority (CGWA), for extraction of groundwater to clean … READ FULL STORY
The National Green Tribunal (NGT), on July 26, 2018, made it clear that the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) should be allowed to operate only those borewells, which have been permitted in accordance to … READ FULL STORY
The Delhi government is rolling out several projects, to increase water availability in the city by 15 to 20 per cent in the next two years and 50 per cent in five years, chief … READ FULL STORY
