The National Green Tribunal (NGT) ordered all industrial units in Bellandur to shut down. Despite promising swift measures after the Bellandur fire, civic authorities have admitted...
Problems like unspent Ganga funds, untreated sewage and industrial waste flowing in Ganga have been major hurdles in cleaning the rivers
Delhi's wastewater drains are the primary source of effluents in the Yamuna, making the river's water completely unusable. Though these drains nearly half of Delhi's sewage...
Experts are of the opinion that India needs to work towards faecal sludge management for a safe urban environment, without posing any risk to land and...
Despite being model villages in terms of cleanliness and sanitation, Badha and Nawada stare at a possibility of sewage pooling up in the village due to...
The Centre awarded projects worth Rs 1,050 crore to develop two Sewage Treatment Plants in Patna to keep the Ganga, under the Namami Gange programme
The National Green Tribunal ordered a CBI probe into UP Jal Nigam irregularities. The officials were reprimanded by NGT for pursuing "incorrect methods" in designing and...
Domestic sewage containing organic wastes, mainly from toilets and kitchens, may prove to be a source of energy that can be harvested by using hungry bacteria,...
It may sound like science fiction, but wastewater treatment plants may turn ordinary sewage into biocrude oil, thanks to this new research which took place at...
A "flood" of multi-storeyed buildings have been constructed on the floodplains of Ganga and Yamuna over the years without any mechanism for waste disposal, the Uttar...
The Ganga rejuvenation project, which is of national importance, is being carried out by officials "who do not know" how many drains are polluting the river,...
The 22-km stretch along the national capital has virtually no aquatic life -- thanks to over 20 drains that pour untreated sewage and other waste into...
