Experts listed a range of factors like usage of plastic bags, poorly maintained drains and lack of proper sewage disposal as major causes of water clogging in cities during rains and said that planning has to have a long-term perspective and infrastructure should keep pace with growth of population ...
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Sewage
Sewage
The order by National Green Tribunal came in after a plea was filed alleging that monsoon is flooding entire area of Vasundhara and causing blockage of the rainwater drains, causing hardship and adversely affecting the environment and the health of the local residents ...
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In a review meeting Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal directed the concerned agencies to lay down a Standard Operating Procedure to manually clean sewers in emergency situation ...
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Ghaziabad- based Association of Apartment Owners raised the issue of overflowing sewage in Indirapuram and said that the drains in most of the places are choked with garbage from roadside vendors, debris from under construction buildings
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A newly formed committee has been formed to explore ways or machines to clean the gutters, within 15 days. Anyone found violating the ban on manual cleaning of sewers will be booked under culpable homicide ...
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Police in Bardu village suspect the possibility of workers inhaling poisonous gases while carrying out the cleaning activity ...
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There are more than 1,000 Seriously Polluting Industries (SPI) and 30 storm water drains along the Ganga stretch between Haridwar and Kanpur and over 800 million litre per day (MLD) of untreated sewage is discharged into it ...
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The National Green Tribunal has directed the Delhi government to immediately clean a trunk drain in Delhi's Seelampur, which is clogged with garbage and municipal solid waste ...
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Lack of financial support from respective state governments for years resulted in many STPs in India gradually becoming dysfunctional ...
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To Attract Foreign Investments And Technologies, India Needs To Improve Its Water Management Regimes
India can learn water management from other countries like Singapore to develop a system that ensures balanced use among industry, agriculture and consumers ...
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Delhi High Court observed that the illegal construction of buildings in Delhi is causing intervention in water circulation and sewage system and asked the officials to ensure that these constructions come to a halt ...
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The Delhi High Court said that no one can take wages for work not done in reference to the safai karamcharis of Delhi Municipality who are not coming to work regularly because of which the capital is being smothered by garbage and sewage ...
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