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Failing to Protect Bengaluru Lakes from Contamination AZRA RIZVI  Background The Principal Bench, New Delhi has issued a warning to the Additional Chief Secretary (Urban Development), Karnataka, Commissioner, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), Commissioner, Bengaluru Development Authority (BDA), Chairman, BWSSB and the Member Secretary, State Pollution Control Board (PCB) after the National Green Tribunal (NGT) surveyed that there is failing to Protect Bengaluru Lakes from Contamination. A huge amount of untreated sewage and effluents are discharged in water bodies at Bengaluru - Bellandur lake, Agara lake and Varthur lake from residential, commercial and industrial buildings which has led to severe pollution of these water bodies. The water bodies are not only polluted by untreated sewage but also due to the inefficient management of solid waste in violation to the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974, particularly Section 25. The B...

GOVERNMENT MUST ENSURE PORTABLE DRINKING WATER: NGT ISHA TRIPATHI  BACKGROUND: The steps to deal with the problem of contamination of groundwater due to Arsenic and availability of clean drinking water in Bahraich, Ballia, Balrampur, Bareilly, Basti, Bijnor, Chandauli, Ghazipur, Gonda, Gorakhpur, Lakhimpur Kheri, Meerut, Mirzapur, Moradabad, Rai Bareilly, Santkabirnagar, Shahjahanpur, Siddharthnagar, Sant Ravidas Nagar and Unnao and certain other districts in Uttar Pradesh and other similarly affected areas in the country including in Assam, Bihar, 2 Jharkhand, Karnataka, Punjab and West Bengal is the issue for consideration. The government must ensure portable drinking water. After considering the matter for more than three years, vide order dated 25.10.2018, this Tribunal undertook an extensive review on the subject and noted the gravity of situation shown by high arsenic content leading to serious diseases and environmental damage in several districts of Utt...

Pollution caused by small scale industries in Mumbai SHANIKA SHUKLA  BACKGROUND On 25 th of October,2018, NGT sought a report from Maharashtra State Pollution Control Board (MSPCB) of a case- Resident of Asha Nagar, Mulund West Mumbai vs. the State of Maharashtra (Original application no.696/2018) upon the pollution caused by small scale industries in Mumbai. The MSPCB was established under the provision of Maharashtra Prevention of water pollution act 1969 and it came into existence on September 7, 1970. Its main aim is to prevent and control of pollution, to collect and disseminate information relating to pollution, to educate and suggest appropriated pollution control techniques and measures and to create public awareness about recycling and eco-friendly practices. It is mainly responsible to give direction according to Water act 1974, Air act 1981, Water (Cess) act 1977 and other provision of Environment Protection act 1986. CURRENT ISSUES (Pollution ...

Household wastage of water should be made a penal offence BACKGROUND Water is a straightforward, bland, scentless, and about dismal synthetic substance, which is the fundamental constituent of Earth's streams, lakes, and seas, and the liquids of most living life forms. It is crucial for every single known type of life, even though it gives no calories or natural supplements. Its synthetic equation is H2O, implying that every one of its particles contains one oxygen and two hydrogen molecules, associated with covalent bonds. Water is the name of the fluid province of H2O at standard encompassing temperature and weight. Water covers 71% of the Earth's surface, generally in oceans and oceans. Small bits of water happens as groundwater (1.7%), in the ice sheets and the ice tops of Antarctica and Greenland (1.7%), and noticeable all around as vapour, mists (framed of ice and fluid water suspended in air), and precipitation (0.001%). Water assumes a significant job on the...

FINE ON VIOLATION OF BIO-MEDICAL WASTE RULES RASHI SRIVASTAVA  BACKGROUND The background of this article includes information about what are bio-medical wastes and what are its management rules. Biomedical waste includes any waste, which is generated during the diagnosis, treatment or immunization of human beings or animals or in research activities pertaining thereto or in the production or testing of biological and including categories specified in the Schedule 1 of the Rules. It should be the responsibility of every occupier of an institution generating bio-medical waste which includes a hospital, nursing home, clinic, dispensary, veterinary institution, animal house, pathological laboratory, blood bank by whatever name called to take steps to ensure that such waste is handled without any disadvantageous effect to the human health and the environment. Scientific disposal of Bio-Medical Waste through separation, collection, and treatment in an environmentally soun...

ILLEGAL EXTRACTION OF GROUNDWATER RASHI SRIVASTAVA  BACKGROUND Groundwater is the water present beneath Earth's surface in soil pore spaces and the fractures of rock formations. A unit of rock or an unconsolidated deposit is called an aquifer when it can yield a usable quantity of water. The depth at which soil pore spaces or fractures and voids in rock become completely saturated with water is called the water table. Groundwater is recharged from and eventually flows to the surface naturally; natural discharge often occurs at springs and seeps and can form oases or wetlands. Groundwater is also often withdrawn for agricultural, municipal, and industrial use by constructing and operating extraction wells. The study of the distribution and movement of groundwater is hydrogeology, also called groundwater hydrology. Typically, groundwater is thought of like water flowing through shallow aquifers, but, in the technical sense, it can also contain soil moisture, permafro...