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Topic: water pollution

NGT flags ‘alarming’ water contamination in UP, ropes in AIIMS to assess health impact

New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Friday took strong note of the severe water pollution affecting residents in Kanpur Nagar, Kanpur Dehat,...

UK water supply company fined for sewage leaks that killed protected fish

Swindon Magistrates' Court ordered Wessex Water to pay £560,000 in fines and costs.

UK government unveils new water pollution law

The proposed legislation will allow the Environment Agency to impose fines of up to £300 for pollution.

Indian Coast Guard Organizes Pollution Response Seminar and Mock Drill in West Bengal

The event will be held at the Headquarters Coast Guard District No. 8 (West Bengal) in Haldia from May 22-23, 2024.

Even Tomars and Mughals dumped waste in the Yamuna—Swapna Liddle on Delhi’s water history

Swapna Liddle's lecture at IIC Delhi kicked off a series of events titled History of Water in Delhi: Politics, Prosperity, Culture and Belief. She said that water served a civilisational feature but was often overlooked.

Millions of dead fish wash ashore Australia’s second longest river

The incident follows fish deaths in the same area in 2018 and 2019 where up to a million fish died from poor water flow, poor water quality, and sudden temperature changes.

Microplastics, pollutants in Cauvery river causing growth defects in fish, says IISc study

Microplastics, industrial and agricultural waste being dumped into the Cauvery are causing hypoxic conditions in the river’s waters, harming marine life.

Untreated water with high ammonia from Haryana will hit supply in parts of Delhi, says DJB

A DJB official said Haryana had opened the gates of drains that had stagnant water with a high pollutant concentration, following heavy rainfall.

Lockdown hasn’t cleaned Ganga. Modi must not fall for photoshopped images on social media

Modi government must know the difference between Ganga river being clean and looking clean. The fall in discharge of industrial waste has achieved only the latter.

Polluted water is hurting global economic growth, World Bank says

GDP growth falls by 0.82% points in regions downstream of heavily polluted rivers, compared with an 2.33% average rate, according to World Bank.

On Camera

From Vedanta, India turned to Nehruvian socialism and buried its liberal roots: Sharad Joshi

An Indian Hitler will have to be exceptionally lucky to survive for any length of time. This much hope ought to be enough for seekers of liberty and equality, wrote Sharad Anantrao Joshi, president of Swatantra Bharat Paksh party, in 1995.

Easy loans, uneasy ‘debt traps’. Women harassed by private lenders ask ‘who will restore lost dignity?’

A public meeting, where the women voiced their protest, took place this month in Delhi, grounded on the findings of an AIDWA survey, covering 9,000 women borrowers.

Ahead of SCO meet, Russia & China stage maiden joint submarine patrol in Sea of Japan, East China Sea

Joint submarine patrol ‘covered more than 2,000 nautical miles’ and was joined by Russian support vessels. Beijing maintains exercise ‘not directed against any third party’.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.