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Saturday, 20 September 2014

Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation fails to clear Rs 11 crore water dues

HYDERABAD: In yet another row between two government agencies, the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) has threatened to stop drinking water supply to several areas unless the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) coughs up Rs 11.26 crore dues.

The water board had in 2009 taken up the responsibility of supplying drinking water through tankers to the 12 GHMC surrounding municipal circles of Alwal, Kapra, Kukatpally, L B Nagar, Gaddiannaram, Malkajgiri, Patancheru, Qutubullapur, Rajendranagar, Ramachandrapuram, Serilingampally and Uppal.

AG exposes Karnataka’s contradictory stand on Mhadei Water Dispute

PANAJI/KERI: The Karnataka government's record in water disputes is a bundle of contradictions, as it is fighting against any diversion of water from the Krishna Godavari basin, but aggressively pursuing a project to link Mhadei's tributaries to the Malaprabha basin, advocate general of the state Atmaram Nadkarni stated before the Mhadei water disputes tribunal.

While pointing out that the Karnataka government has countered such proposals by neighbouring states before the Krishna and Godavari tribunals, contending that there cannot be diversion outside the basin, Nadkarni stated that they are precisely trying to do the same here by diverting Kalasa and other tributaries from Mhadei to link them to the Malaprabha basin.

The state government, which has locked horns with Karnataka over the water dispute, has also succeeded in getting an order from the tribunal to inspect the documents furnished by Karnataka in its dispute over Krishna Godavari water.

Saturday, 13 September 2014

2 workers die after inhaling poisonous gas in sewage pit

CHENNAI: Two workers died after inhaling toxic gas in a sewage pit at a Metrowater facility in Kodungaiyur on Saturday morning during maintenance.

The victims were part of four workers engaged by a contractor for maintenance work in the 10-feet-deep pit maintained by Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board or Metrowater. The gas is suspected to have spewed out after a valve in the pit was opened.

Nandakumar, who went in first, fainted. Seeing him slump to the ground at the bottom of the pit, Jayakumar, who was not aware his colleague had inhaled toxic gases, jumped down to rescue him and met with the same fate. One of the two others standing above was also affected and was taken to a hospital. Security guards of nearby apartment complexes alerted the fire and rescue services, and teams from Manali and Madhavaram arrived. Police too rushed to the spot.
Read more here - TOI - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/2-workers-die-after-inhaling-poisonous-gas-in-sewage-pit/articleshow/41298451.cms

Ban on effluent discharge on open land

BHARUCH: District administration has banned discharge of effluent water on land other than sites notified by Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB). A notification was brought out by Collector Vinod Rao after recent incidents of tankers caught while discharging effluent waste into open lands in the district. The notification says that strict action will be initiated against culprit industries and tanker owners violating the notification.
Read more here - TOI - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/surat/ban-on-effluent-discharge-on-open-land/articleshow/42246335.cms

Monday, 8 September 2014

Sewage treatment plan sinks as malls, flats rise

CHENNAI: Shopping malls, hotels and apartment continue to mushroom across the city attracting more people and spewing more sewage, but the city corporation's proposal to make sewage treatment plants compulsory in large commercial establishments remains on paper for more than three years.

In November 2011, the city corporation passed a resolution making sewage treatment plants compulsory in shopping malls, theatres, hotels and hospitals to reduce sewage overflow and curb wastage of water. Nobody, not even corporation officials, seem to know the fate of this proposal.

"We are waiting for the state government approval for the plan," is what a corporation official would say, that too on condition of anonymity. Several residents near large commercial establishments complained that sewage often overflows in their locality. This is because complexes generate more sewage than the drains can take. On General Patters Road and Bharati Salai in Royapettah, this is a perennial problem.
Read more here - TOI - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Sewage-treatment-plan-sinks-as-malls-flats-rise/articleshow/41046527.cms