Sewage
Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) faced criticism from Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) recently for their failure for not upgrading sewerage network in the Greater Hyderabad limits. Not even five percent of the new sewage pipelines were laid in the last ten years. Due to lack of sewerage network, nearly 75 percent [...] Continue Reading »
The residents of Balaji Avenue, off the Thiruvanaikovil Trunk Road in Srirangam, are facing problems regarding drinking water. The drinking water overhead tank (OHT) complex at the south-west corner of the locality has been exposed to pollution over the past few months, owing to the outflow of sewage from a faulty underground sewer line. The [...] Continue Reading »
From the last seven years, sewage has been pouring into Gorewada lake which supplies water to 70 per cent areas of the city, yet, the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has been completely unaware of it. The NMC officials decided to take action against this only after several complaints by the BJP corporator from Dhaba, Jagdish Gwalbanshi. [...] Continue Reading »
The Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has been emphasizing on the cleaning up of Hussainsagar Lake. Having taken up the initiative to clean up the polluted Hussainsagar Lake, the 400-year-old water body in the heart of the city, the HMDA has been working at diverting the sewage inflows. The lake faces pollution threats from industrial [...] Continue Reading »
The Zirakpur Municipal Corporation was directed not to sanction for construction of illegal colonies in the area by the Punjab and Haryana High Court. Counsel for Zirakpur MC stated that the plans for unauthorised colonies were being sanctioned as directed by the Punjab government. However, HC puts stop on any further construction of unauthorized colonies [...] Continue Reading »
Residents across Chennai have been complaining about sewage overflow for the last few months. However, the civic bodies are yet to take up any action to address the issue. Residents of Sixth Street, R.V.Nagar, Anna Nagar, have been putting up with stench, flies and sewage on the road. Sewage has been overflowing from manholes in [...] Continue Reading »
Salt production has come down drastically due to raw untreated sewage being let out into the south Buckingham Canal and the early closure of the sand bar at the mouth of the canal where it joins the Bay of Bengal. Over the last 10 years, salt production in Kelambakkam, Thiruvidanthai, Thaiyyur, and Kalavakkam – villages [...] Continue Reading »
The ditches which lie open and uncovered in Kalidasa Nagar in Hosakerehalli, Bangalore are a threat to the residents. These ditches are lying as it is from past two decades when the authority was transferred from BDA to BBMP. The ditches which lie there have been dug up but has not been covered with slabs. [...] Continue Reading »
Sewage construction work has been a headache for residents of Indora in Nagpur. They have been protesting for a few months now against flow of sewage into a drain near to their locality. After several protests, the municipal corporation had laid a sewerage line resulting in unbearable stench. Till now, it has created issues for [...] Continue Reading »
There has been many witnesses of poor provision of civic amenities in the Patna city. The members of the state legislative council have recently complained about the state government’s work over civic amenities in the city. The issue was raised in the question hour in the state assembly about the issues like mosquito menace, waterlogging, [...] Continue Reading »
