With the installation of two new Sewer Treatment Plants under National Mission for Clean Ganga, the sewage treatment capacity of Haridwar city has been increased to 145 million litre per day which is adequate for treating the 108 million litres of sewage being generated in the city per day ...
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Former UN Environment Chief, Erik Solheim joined the UN Champions of the Earth award winner Afroz Shah for Tapi river clean-up drive in Surat ...
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President Ram Nath Kovind has ensured that the Central government is fully committed to ensuring an uninterrupted flow of river Ganga and making it pollution-free, along with other rivers of India ...
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To mark the World Environment Day, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation will be conducting the ‘Swachh Sabarmati Maha Abhiyan’ under which the stretch between Subhash Bridge and Dadhichi Bridge will be cleaned on the first day
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According to the Clean Mahananda Campaigners in Siliguri district of West Bengal human encroachment, illegal sand mining, construction of dams and barrages, sewage and waste dumping and deforestation has brought Mahananda River to the brink of death, terribly affecting the ecosystem of the water body ...
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The Central Monitoring Committee will co-ordinate with the River Rejuvenation Committees of the states and oversee the execution of the action plans, taking into account the timelines, budgetary mechanism and other factors ...
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A study conducted by the Ministry of Water Resources analysed the amount of heavy metals in Indian rivers from 2014 to 2017, high concentration of metals exceeding the permissible limits for drinking water were observed in rivers such as the Ganga, Rapti, Ramganga ...
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Earlier this year, a CPCB report called "River Stretches for Restoration of Water Quality" identified 351 polluted stretches on 323 rivers ...
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The 2 per cent stretch from Wazirabad to Okhla sees the maximum discharge of untreated industrial and domestic wastes ...
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As per the panel that is monitoring the action plan to clean Yamuna, absence of sewer networks in unauthorised colonies in the national capital region is one of the biggest reasons behind the pollution in the river ...
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As per the monitoring committee overseeing the cleaning of the river Yamuna, the absence of sewer networks in over 1,500 unauthorised colonies and slums of Delhi, which has an approximate population of about 40 lakh people, is one of the biggest reasons of pollution in the river ...
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The workshop brought together around 60 representatives from various large river basins and River Basin Organisations around the world, including India, as well as of key authorities in the Ganga River Basin ...
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