Water Pollution

PHOTO: FILE MULTAN: The subsoil water of Dastiwala village, a neighbourhood of Muzaffargarh, is arsenic, brackish and unfit for human consumption. This village is part of a large segment of Pakistans population that lacks access to safe and clean water. Al…

Johor plans to be self-sufficient with water instead of purchasing treated water from Singapore, says Dato Osman Sapian, a Minister in Johors state legislative assembly and former Chief Minister of Johor. At a special session with the Malaysian Prime Minsiter…

MALIBU, United States — On a full moon at high tide each spring, schools of grunion fish flop out of California’s coastal waters to spawn in the sand. The beaches had a different set of attendees on one misty June evening: an army of spindly young men wearin…

* Corresponding authors a Ocean College, Zhejiang University, Zhoushan 316021, P. R. China E-mail:dsun@zju.edu.cn b Key Laboratory of Environmental Biotechnology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, China Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100…

Paris: Seafood lovers who prize the mussel for its earthy taste and succulent flesh may be unaware of its growing potential in the fight against water pollution. The mussel is the hoover of the sea, taking in phytoplankton for nourishment along with micropla…

An official of the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources hugs Marium, a lost baby dugong. The 8-month-old mammal, who captured hearts online, died after biologists believe she ate plastic waste. Sirachai Arunrugstichai/AP Marium, an orphaned dugong car…

Delayed payments is a major headache for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Union MSME minister Nitin Gadkari said here on Saturday, adding that he was trying to find a solution to this issue. Speaking at a convention of 'Laghu Udyog Bharti', an RSS-linked…

Citing tests that show more contamination at the Water Gremlin site near White Bear Lake, state pollution regulators have again asked the manufacturer to immediately shut down its coatings operation. The company's new air emissions control equipment is still…

By David R. Montgomery, Professor of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington Its time to take soil seriously. As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states with very high confidence in its latest report, land degradation represents one o…

Insights into Editorial: Rethinking water governance strategies Context: Indias water crisis took over social media recently. That Indias cities are running out of water, coupled with Chennais drinking water woes, made the crisis viral, raising questions ab…