Latest News
In this Issue
Most Popular on DTE Site
- Health ministry sets timeframe for keeping animals treated with antibiotics out of food chain
- Poison in disguise 1
- Chaos in the iron age 2
- It’s a demographic disaster
- Gujarat pollution board gets a makeover in efficiency 33
- Mirage of a river 1
- Activist lands in jail for protesting lack of health facilities in tribal district five years ago
- Tulsi Fights Fluorosis 2
- 'Will fight POSCO till last breath'
- Auroville’s alternative galaxy
- Environment ministry wants to restore night traffic through Bandipur tiger reserve 52
- A green facade 44
- Diesel: when bad policy makes for toxic hell 38
- Gujarat pollution board gets a makeover in efficiency 33
- What’s good insulation? 30
- How vulnerable are India's nuclear power plants to disaster 28
- Grand distraction called river interlinking 28
- Eat at your own risk 27
- Green energy takes toll on green cover 26
- Temporary solution, permanent jam 25
On Facebook
The Fortnight
SHUTTERS DOWN
0 Comments
Issue Date: Dec 31, 1995
It could be the
death knell for 20 hotels and a
shrimp processing unit in Orissa if
they do not take immediate mea-
sures to stop polluting the sea by
the end of this year.The Orissa
Pollution Control Board decided
to close down the hotels following a
Supreme Court order. They have
been discharging untreated effluents including sewage into the sea.
Six of the hotels were found to be
polluting the beach and the sea
directly by discharging untreated
wastes. The other hotels were causing indirect pollution.
O
P
E
N
DTE Must Read
Good job bringing this to light. People won't realise how huge the problem is and municipalities are woefully ill equipped to...
Agreed; mining can never be sustainable, but then how do you get the metals to make all the things you need in the course of...
Very good piece.