The government has launched ‘Jal Jeevan Mission’ to ensure drinking water to all by 2024, however, it slashed budget for major schemes for the conservation of water sources like National Ganga Plan, National River Conservation Groundwater Management ...
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A committee formed by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on cleaning of Yamuna said that the river has been reduced to a trickle and remains dry in some stretches for almost nine months of the year, adding that it would not be possible to rejuvenate the river unless the minimum environmental flow is provided ...
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In an effort to clean Yamuna river in Dlehi, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari laid foundation stones of eleven projects to conserve the 22-km stretch of the Yamuna in the national capital from Wazirabad to Okhla barrage ...
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While hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by social activists seeking the cleaning of the Godavari River, the Bombay High Court has directed the Maharashtra government to take urgent steps to curb pollution in the River and implement the recommendations of the National Environmental Engineering Institute (NERI) in controlling pollution ...
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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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With 275 polluted river stretches, contaminated groundwater in nine major states and dying lakes across the country, India stares at a massive water crisis in coming days ...
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The global water crisis can help India learn a lot about steps that need to be taken to address the widening demand – supply gap in the country ...
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On January 24, Union Minister Harsh Vardhan announced the new strategies for river rejuvenation, which will focus on the entire river basin unlike the current strategy that was limited to tackling pollution load from domestic wastewater and regulation of industrial pollution ...
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The environment ministry announced new strategy for river rejuvenation which will focus on the entire river basin and not only on tackling pollution load from domestic wastewater and regulation of industrial pollution ...
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New Delhi: After Lok Sabha members on Tuesday expressed concern over the Brahmaputra river being polluted by China, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar assured the House that he ...
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Based on water sample collected on November 27, the report said that Nephelometric Turbidity Unit caused by concentration of suspended or dissolved particulate materials in the river water is 425, whereas the permissible limit ranges from 0-5 NTU ...
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On the directions of Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, the state government has sent samples taken from the Brahmaputra for testing to the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology in Hyderabad and IIT-Guwahati, a release from the Chief Minister's Office (CMO) said ...
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