Water Pollution

By Martyn Andrews, RT senior culture editor. The plastic bag has become anathema to the effort of saving Mother Nature from humans’ toxic ways. But humans are now being blindsided by a shortage of paper bags – which have proven to be an even worse alternative. With the old-fashioned single-use plastic bags…

The decentralised approach to waste management that the Coimbatore Corporation has started should continue as it appeared to be a workable model aimed at solving the city’s solid waste management problem, Justice P. Jyothimani, Chairperson, State Level Monitoring Committee of National Green Tribunal (NGT) for Solid Waste Management in Tamil…

January 31st, 2020 by Johnna Crider  It seems that the EPA under Donald Trump wants to dump raw sewage into our rivers. The organization is now allowing cities to do just that. In an article by the New York Times, the Trump administration has decided to reve…

New Delhi (Sputnik): Voters in Indias national capital, one of the countrys richest in terms of per capita calculation, are being aggressively wooed by both the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with elections for th…

CHICAGO, Jan. 31, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- According to the new market research report "Membranes Market by Material (Polymeric, Ceramic), Technology (RO, UF, MF, NF), Application (Water & Wastewater Treatment, Industrial Processing), Region (North America, APAC, Europe, MEA, South America) - Global Forecast to 2024", published by MarketsandMarkets™, the Membranes Market is…

The Environment Management Agency (EMA) has hauled Norton Town Council to the High Court over continued discharge of raw effluent including sewer into Darwendale Dam causing major threat to residents and aqua life. The battle has stretched for 10 years now but according to EMA, the town council is not…

The National Green Tribunal on January 27 sought response from the Centre and others on a plea seeking execution of its order to make arrangements for supplying drinking water in a village in Rewari district of Haryana as underground water in the area was con…

The Waters of the United States rule, usually called WOTUS, is another name for the Clean Water Rule, passed by the Obama administration in 2015. It was designed to provide guidance over water in the United States, which is more complicated than you might think; it includes intertidal zones, underground…

The National Green Tribunal was told by a committee on January 24 that mass mortality of migratory birds at the Sambhar Lake in Rajasthan was not because of 'avian influenza' or 'pesticide poisoning' but due to avian botulism caused by a bacteria.Avian botulism is a serious neuromuscular illness of birds caused…

Amarinder said the level of rivers in the state has reduced from 17 MAF to less than 13 MAF. The groundwater, that meets 73 per cent of irrigation requirement of the state, has declined to alarming levels, threatening the livelihood of farmers.(File Photo)Sta…