CLEAN-UP PLANT

For a better future

Condemned

Carrying capacity of an area matters in case of industrial effluent discharge

Government must set discharge norms accordingly

Can we declare ourselves ODF, without managing the collected excreta?

A lowdown on how to clean India and keep it that way

Why is river Yamuna still maily?

Officials do not understand the gray waters produced by the city

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 11, 2024)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Mahad loses river, crops

Polluting industrial units closed only on paper

Dye filter

An improvised bio-sand filter helps Nepal dyers treat toxic effluents

Factories poison Khed

Villagers angry over chemical effluents in their drinking water

Waste manager dumps it in river

Gujarat firm gets closure notice for stealthily disposing of untreated hazardous waste

Tannery convicted

Spam in fishing net

No check on effluents

Tirupur dyeing units told to close

Madras High Court orders shut down till zero discharge

Field science

States asked to clean up

No permits in high-polluted areas  

For a clean ganga

Kolkata’s hellhole

Toxic waste spill in Vapi: waste mangement company served show cause notice

Even after four days around 50 per cent of the toxic sludge remains to be lifted

Cuddalore flouts rules

New industries set to increase pollution in the area

No let-off till zero discharge

Pali industrial units discharge untreated effluent into river

Authorities shut down industries, but they continue to operate clandestinely

Andhra hospitals flout bio-medical rules

119 hospitals issued show cause notice by state pollution control board for violations

'Chemplast claims about zero liquid discharge false'

Carcinogens found in effluents leaking from company's PVC plant in Mettur