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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Truxor Machine: A Revolutionary Solution for Cleaning Vijayawada Canals

The Vijayawada Municipal Corporation has deployed a state-of-the-art amphibious dredger (Truxor T150) to clean the Eluru, Bandar and Ryves canals in Vijayawada. The machine is capable of cleaning water hyacinth, plastic and tree debris that fall into the canals from the canal embankments. The new VMC chief, Dhyanachandra with government nod, procured the machine to reduce water pollution and clean …

Environment Law Technology Infrastructure Vijayawada

3 months, 3 weeks ago

NGT unhappy over delay in addressing pollution of Edappally, Perandoor canals

The Hindu

The National Green Tribunal has expressed dissatisfaction over the inordinate delay in taking remedial measures against the pollution of Edappally and Perandoor canals owing to unauthorised discharge of sewage into the waterbodies. The Southern Bench had taken suo motu notice of the report titled ‘Faecal contamination high in Perandoor, Edappally canals’ published in The Hindu on January 28, 2021. The …

Pollution Report Bench Neeri Edappally Canals Perandoor

8 months ago

Water to Be Released from Prakasam Barrage till April 29

Deccan Chronicle

Vijayawada: To improve the drinking water supply during summer, government Chief Secretary Dr. K.S. Jawahar Reddy on Monday said that the water would be released from Prakasam Barrage through canals till April 29 and from Nagarjuna Sagar Right Main Canal till April 25. Dr Jawahar Reddy stated that the water release for the canals being extended to fill all the …

Water Drinking Prakasam Tanks Jawahar Reddy

1 year, 2 months ago

Kerala Pollution Control Board greenlights study by CSIR-NEERI to develop tech to prevent sewage pollution of waterbodies

The Hindu

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute will carry out a feasibility study on the development of process package treatment method to check pollution of the Pallikkalar stretch in Karunagapally, and Edappally, Perandoor canals in Kochi at an estimated cost of ₹45 lakh. The Kerala State Pollution Control Board has given its approval for the project …

Kerala Kochi Neeri Edappally

1 year, 5 months ago

‘Not a natural calamity’: Delhi, Haryana continue to clash over Hathnikund water

Hindustan Times

The Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday reiterated its allegations that the flooding of the Yamuna in Delhi was not a natural calamity, but was caused by the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Haryana government releasing water from the Hathnikund barrage only towards the Capital, instead of releasing water equitably into other canals. The Haryana government hit back, calling the allegations baseless, accusing …

Delhi Water Haryana Singh Released Aap Yamuna

2 years, 5 months ago

Himachal Pradesh cloudburst: Houses damaged, water canals eroded in Shalkhar village; landslide in Kangra

India TV News

Highlights A landslide occurred at a construction site near a flour mill around 9 am today All the injured were identified and were admitted to a hospital Heavy rains have been battering several states since the onset of monsoon season Himachal Pradesh cloudburst: At least eight people were injured in a landslide in Himachal Pradesh's Kangra district on Tuesday morning, …

District Himachal Pradesh Himachal Kangra Kangra District Pradesh Cloudburst Shalkhar Village

2 years, 7 months ago

Flooded Roads & Blocked Canals: Kerala High Court Calls For Strict Action Against Discarding Garbage In Drains

Live Law

The Kerala High Court on Thursday directed the Secretary of the Cochin Corporation to initiate strict action against those dumping garbage into canals and drains, aggravating the flooding of roads and causing blockage of drains in the State.Justice Devan Ramachandran began the interim order with an observation that as much as the Court did not desire to control the management …

Kerala Court Flooding Kerala High Court State Corporation Ker

3 years, 2 months ago

In South Texas, aging water system meets growing population

Associated Press

McALLEN, Texas — On a scorching afternoon in South Texas, Sonia Lambert looked out at an open-air canal that carries mud-green water from the Rio Grande to nearby towns and farmland, losing much of it to evaporation and seepage along the way. In the Rio Grande Valley, a canal system designed more than a century ago for agriculture still delivers …

Climate Change Water Farmers Cities Districts Texas Mexico

3 years, 8 months ago

Solar panels on California’s canals could save water and help fight climate change

LA Times

This is the April 22, 2021, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. I was initially skeptical when I read about a new study from researchers at UC Merced, finding that covering thousands of miles of California’s largest canals with solar panels could generate huge amounts of clean …

Energy Climate Change Change Clean Energy Climate Water Resources Power

4 years, 1 month ago

Seema project needs green nod, says NGT